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Make a difference helping others learn and grow. We prepare you to positively impact the lives of people of all ages, from children to young adults, parents to senior citizens.
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Choose your route
Explore multiple pathways to becoming an educator, including accelerated options, internship or co-teaching, elementary and high school credentials, or special education and bilingual education.
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Learn by doing
Our on-campus clinics and centers and community-based service learning partnerships prepare you for your career in education.
We offer California-accredited programs to prepare you for the classroom, whether you want to teach elementary school, high school or special education. Our master’s degrees in education, school psychology and speech-language pathology take your career to the next level.
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From birth to old age, we focus on how humans develop. We study family and community dynamics, learn through fieldwork, and prepare you to work in industries ranging from early childhood education, counseling, health care, human resources, research and non-profits.
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If you want to be an elementary or middle school educator, our program is the ideal way to get a broad and well-rounded education that prepares you to teach across all K-8 subject areas.
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Pathways to making a difference as a K-8 teacher or in social service programs.
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Expand your professional opportunities with a degree in education, school psychology or speech-language pathology.
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Earn a California teaching, special education or administrative credential.
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Rylee Jue and Mitchell Provencher will study at the Panetta Institute before they go to DC to work for 12 weeks.
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The LIST Institute was a four-day event that showed local teachers how to incorporate more science into their classrooms.
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The grants will allow the instructors to help pave the way for AI use in the classroom.
Even now that I’m working, if I have questions, my professor will email me back right away and help me with everything.
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