ECO Activities and Programs

 

Below is a list of ECO-related programs and activities that provide educational enrichment for K-12 students and development opportunities for educational professionals

 

CURRENT ACTIVITIES/PROGRAMS:

• Academic Talent Development Program (ATDP)

• Adopt-a-School Program

• ALEKS - ALEKS is an on-line mathematics tuorial and assessment system geared toward middle and high school mathematics that can be accessed via the World Wide Web. The ALEKS system is based on extensive theoretical research in `Knowledge Space Theory' by Professors Jean-Claude Falmagne at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), Jean-Paul Doignon at the University of Brussels, and several other scientists, many of whom are located in European Universities. ALEKS stands for `Assessment and Learning in Knowledge Spaces'. ECO will house the ALEKS system for The Berkeley Pledge to enable Pledge and select partnering K-12 schools to utilize the ALEKS system.

• Bay Area Writing Project (BAWP)

• Cal*West Gear Up Project

• GSE Summer Sessions - The Graduate School of Education offers a variety of summer courses for UCB students and others in the area of education. Some of these courses provide an excellent opportunity for new and existing professionals in the field of education.

• Richmond Project

• Service Learning Research and Development Center (SLRDC)

• Undergraduate Field Studies (ED 97/197) - Undergraduate Field Studies in Education (ED 97/197) enables UCB Undergraduate students to receive unit credit for providing tutoring and other educational services to schools and the broader community. Students can select from one of 74 different placements or create one of their own.

FORMER ACTIVITIES/PROGRAMS:

• Academically Responsive Bilingual Opportunities for Learners Institute (ARBOLES)

• Charter Schools Institute

• Community Education & Resource Center (CERC)

• Interactive University (IU) Phase I & II Evaluation

• National Conference on Educational Collaboration & Excellence (NCECE)

• Oakland Charter Academy (OCA) - ECO, with generous support from the Frank Baxter Foundation is developing a partnership between the Graduate School of Education and the Oakland Charter Academy to strengthen student achievement at OCA and teacher professional development in the areas of technology, literacy, mathematics and science.
  

• Regional Conference on Educational Collaboration & Excellence (RCECE)

• UCB America Reads Initiative