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BSE hosts top UC Berkeley officials to discuss college admissions, the need for more collaboration between TK-12 and higher education

“Our institutions benefit – and the public we serve benefits – when we communicate, collaborate, and support one another. Let's commit to doing even more of that today,” UC Berkeley Chancellor Rich Lyons told the gathering.

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New faculty spotlight: Maggie Chan

In much the same way that schools assess grade-level reading and math, Chan is researching effective social-emotional screening for key factors that are impacting students’ wellbeing, taking into consideration that students come from a variety of cultures, religions, ethnicities, family income levels, and other identities. It's a line of inquiry with which Chan has direct experience from her early schooling in Hong Kong where little was done to disrupt inequalities.

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New faculty spotlight: Kourtney Kawano

As a new faculty member at the Berkeley School of Education, Kourtney Kawano brings deep personal experience to her scholarship and teaching: her roots as a Native Hawaiian woman raised on the west side of Oahu, her years as a public high school teacher, and her commitment to the transformative power of education. Her work is grounded in her lived experience and aimed at reshaping how we think about knowledge, schooling, and belonging.

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It takes two to OЯTHO

Can two people learn math together by acing an arcade game? It's a question being investigated through an interactive tabletop digital game called OЯTHO, where players pick up fundamentals of the Cartesian coordinate system as their secret sauce for entering the hallowed hall of fame. Developed by Professor Dor Abrahamson and two scientists at the Copernicus Science Centre (CSC) in Warsaw, Poland, Katarzyna Potęga vel Żabik and Ilona Iłowiecka‐Tańska, OЯTHO challenges players to collaboratively navigate a virtual ball through maze-like paths, with the objective of completing the course in the shortest time and with the fewest moves.

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BSE now offers a Bachelor's degree in Educational Sciences

We know that education not only happens in schools and higher education, but also includes myriad forms of learning across contexts and the life span. Educational Sciences as an academic discipline explores the field of education via academic inquiry and direct engagement with schools, families, and local and global communities. 

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