For this special post of our CREATE blog, we have a guest high school student, Joyce Garofalo, who is the 2019 National Center for Women in Technology (NCWIT) Aspirations in Computing Award recipient. CREATE at UC San Diego became the supporting institution for Joyce’s summer project. Learn more about her experience below! Her face lights…
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New UC San Diego CREATE Initiative to Strengthen K-12 Climate Education
“Creating Climate Champions” will leverage campus resources to support K-12 climate learning The Center for Research on Educational Equity, Assessment and Teaching Excellence (CREATE) at UC San Diego has launched a one-year pilot program to advance climate education in San Diego County K-12 schools. Creating Climate Champions at UC San Diego CREATE is a collaborative…
Rafael S. Hernandez Receives UC San Diego Inclusive Excellence Award
Congratulations to Rafael S. Hernandez, director of the Early Academic Outreach Program! Hernandez was the recipient of a UC San Diego Inclusive Excellence Award at the 25th Annual UC San Diego Inclusive Excellence Award ceremony on February 4, 2020 at the Price West Ballroom. The UC San Diego Inclusive Excellence Awards honor faculty, staff, students…
Professor Mica Pollock Named as Top Scholar in Education Practice and Policy
Dr. Mica Pollock, UC San Diego professor of Education Studies and director of the Center for Research on Educational Equity, Assessment and Teaching Excellence (CREATE) at UC San Diego, has been named one of the top 200 scholars who “did the most last year to shape educational practice and policy” in Education Week’s 2020 RHSU…
Teaching Tolerance Lifts CREATE’s #USvsHate
“This is an initiative that invites student voice. Kids are given an invitation to message and speak their perspective. Teachers are being invited into a collective effort to work on the issues of our society rather than pretend the world doesn’t exist.” – Mica Pollock, UC San Diego Professor of Education Studies, Director of the…
CREATE Statement on White Supremacist Violence
We at UC San Diego’s Center for Research on Educational Equity, Assessment, and Teaching Excellence (CREATE) denounce the white supremacist violence spiking in our nation. We also denounce the deeper forms of “white supremacy” spiking into today’s explicit violence. That is, we reject the false notions of group inferiority and superiority, and related structures of…
We’re all more connected to immigrants — and immigration policies — than we think
Mica Pollock, professor in UC San Diego’s Department of Education Studies and director of the Center for Research on Educational Equity, Assessment and Teaching Excellence (CREATE), wrote an op-ed column for Iowa’s Des Moines Register to connect with people where she grew up. Read the article below or online here. We’re all more connected to…
This Week @ UC San Diego: It Takes a Network
The Center for Research on Educational Equity, Assessment and Teaching Excellence (CREATE) is the lead story in the May 30, 2019 issue of This Week @ UC San Diego. “To raise a child with a fair shot at college, it takes more than a village—it takes a network.” Read the article here.
Commentary: For young San Diegans, choosing freedom over fear is not about Republican or Democrat politics
The San Diego Union-Tribune published the following commentary by Mica Pollock, professor in the Department of Education Studies and director of the Center for Research on Educational Equity, Assessment and Teaching Excellence (CREATE) at UC San Diego. Youth are calling for the nation to be not only kind but safe. By MICA POLLOCKPROFESSOR OF EDUCATION…
Culture, Art & Science: Exploring Real World Science at the Barrio Logan Science & Art Expo
High above the crowd atop a rising fire truck ladder, a member of Fire Station 11 began releasing a series of boxes, each holding an egg as its precious cargo. On the street below, local students and their families cheered – and also wondered: Would the engineer-designed boxes protect their eggs from cracking or breaking…