Through public engagement, you can educate others as well as bolster your career, writes Erica Gobrogge. To determine which opportunities to pursue, consider a four-step approach

The pandemic interrupted some public-service projects, but interest in them seems to be stirred, not deterred.

School of Education researchers Prof. Michal Kurlaender and Dr. Sherrie Reed partnered with the California Student Aid Commission (CSAC) to conduct one of the largest surveys in the nation to gauge the impact of the pandemic on our college population and help guide response moving forward. 

The Center for Integrated Computing and STEM Education at the University of California, Davis, is offering free webinars and online professional development for teachers.

The California-History Social Science Project, headquartered at UC Davis, provides, among other things, the guidelines for California history and social science teaching. That project ordinarily develops teaching materials and resources for teachers throughout the state. UC Davis and five other university locations have started posting resources for parents — lesson plans, reading lists, blogs of encouragement — as well as for teachers trying to teach remotely for the first time.

With many K-12 schools closed nationwide, teachers and students can now get free access to tools for online learning in mathematics and computer science from the Center for Integrated Computing and STEM Education, or C-STEM, at the University of California, Davis.

For Maria Martinez, making the transition from teacher to principal at Sci-Tech Academy was only natural. Martinez recently reflected on her teaching career, sharing her advice for aspiring teachers.

"The writing I did as a museum volunteer also taught me how to synthesize dense, scholarly arguments and make them accessible to a broad audience."

Newman, a first-year teacher, graduated from Nevada Union High School in 2015 and received her teaching credential from UC Davis where she is currently enrolled in their Master’s of Education program. In Newman’s class, all of Bitney’s seniors are expected to participate in a Civic Engagement Project where they are to identify a particular problem or issue that is important to them and go about trying to solve it.

A new study from researchers at the University of California, Davis and Cornell University found that students denied access to special education were significantly less likely to graduate from high school and also less likely to enroll in college.