“When We Take Care of the Classroom, the Classroom Takes Care of Us” Practices of Reciprocity in Environment Education
A deep breath, a quick step outside, and a wide open window – all simple actions, yet dramatically significant to […]
Author: UCLA CONNECT
Lessons Learned from Being a CONNECT Intern: Reflecting on Research on Healthy Classroom Air Qualities
A few weeks ago, CONNECT interns presented our research, “Our Relationship to the Classroom: Student Agency and Reciprocity for Environmental […]
Game-Based Performance Tasks for NGSS
This Spring quarter, UCLA CRESST (Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing) will be conducting a study using […]
Plants vs CO₂
Hello! We are Room 7 students. Dr. Dolphin first came in with a sensor for her research project and we […]
Reinvigorating Civics: Civic Discourse & Reasoning Measure Development
PI Li Cai at UCLA CRESST (Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing) is conducting a study on […]
School Socialization of Social Equity Study
Starting this Spring quarter, PhD Candidate Stephanie Patton from the School of Sociology will be conducting a research project at […]
NOISE and the LEARNING BRAIN
Julie Schneider, Project Scientists from SEIS is conducting a research study to explore how children’s learning depends on their ability […]
Empathy Study
Empathy Study This spring AnnaLise Hoopes, UCLA PhD candidate will be visiting PreK-6 classrooms to learn from teachers about how […]
Building Relationships with Air
Growing up, in the public schools I attended, lessons were from a scripted textbook and followed a predictable structure: read […]
Welcome Disruptions: Healing Narration Sickness with Wordless Books
“Meow meOW MEOWWW,” the student read, getting louder. Embodying Mr. Wuffles, he started hissing and scratching at the pages, until […]
Mathematical Playgrounds: Counting Collections at UCLA
At UCLA Lab School, counting means so much more than one, two, three. Professor Megan Franke’s course, EDUC 134: Early Childhood Mathematics […]
Feelings and Dispositions as Tools to Support Students’ Mathematical Learning
This year, Dr. Ava Gilani along with Dr. Christine Lee and Dr. Megan Franke (PI) are launching a research project investigating how students’ […]
Biorealism Today: Lessons Learned from Richard Neutra’s UCLA Lab School
“Biorealism Today: Lessons from Richard Neutra’s UCLA Lab School” provides teachers, designers, schools, and their building operators with practical, evidence-based […]
Critical Media Literacy & Digital Citizenship
Christine Ong, a researcher at CRESST in UCLA’s School of Education and Information Studies focuses her research on how young […]
Worldbuilders and Storytellers: A Creative Play-Based Approach for Literacy Learning
Magical Green Forest–a world where rivers and flowers have magical healing properties; Death Water Rainforest Shell Planet — a magnificent […]
How Emergent Readers Create, Feel, and Own Stories through Wordless Books
Throughout the winter and spring quarters of this year, I had the opportunity to work with CONNECT Researcher Dr. Christine […]
What’s in a Name?: Creating Space for Open Dialogue Through Wordless Books
One day, I walked into an EC2 classroom where Demonstration Teacher Kelly Peters was reading I Walk with Vanessa aloud to her […]
Different Voices, One Story: How Children Made Good Dog, Carl Their Own
This spring, as part of my research with CONNECT researcher Dr. Christine Lee, I had the opportunity to observe and […]
Building Relationships through Wordless Books
Over the course of the Spring Quarter, I have been observing an EC2 classroom as students read and interact with […]
Beyond the Lines: Connecting through Art
This quarter, I have been collaborating with CONNECT Researcher Dr. Christine Lee and dual-language Primary Demonstration Teachers Cristina Paul, Nancy […]