UC Berkeley’s Center for Research on Expanding Educational Opportunity, in partnership with UCLA’s Center for the Transformation of Schools, baseline report from Year 1 of the Race, Education, and Community Healing (REACH) Network examines discipline disparities across 10 diverse California schools. We highlight these schools’ and districts’ efforts to address exclusionary discipline and offer insights and...
Postdoctoral scholar Christine Quince participated on a panel with UCLA Professor and past President of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Tyrone C. Howard at the Black Californians United for Early Care & Education (Black ECE) Symposium. On the panel they...
Please give a warm welcome to Dr. Jacquelyn Ollison, the new Director of CREEO.
Dr. Jacquelyn Ollison comes to CREEO with over two decades of experience in the field of education, and a commitement to equity and justice. With a heartfelt focus on improving educators' well-being and professional development, Dr. Ollison has made significant strides in transforming teaching and learning environments. Her pioneering work addressing teacher retention, particularly in underserved schools, emphasizes the crucial challenge of compassion...
Please give a warm welcome to Dr. Jacquelyn Ollison!
Dr. Jacquelyn Ollison is distinguished in the field of education for her dedicated commitment to equity and justice. With a heartfelt focus on improving educators' well-being and professional development, Dr. Ollison has spent over two decades making significant strides in transforming teaching and learning environments. Her pioneering work addressing teacher retention, particularly in underserved schools, emphasizes the crucial challenge of compassion fatigue among educators—a deeply personal matter to her...
Petrina Miller remembers, as a young teacher in Los Angeles Unified, helping another teacher during district testing and noticing that the teacher was giving Black students and other students of color the answers. Miller asked her why she was doing that.
“Let them have a productive struggle,” Miller said. “Let them try, and whatever score they get is what they get. And that’s fine.”
Diana Lambert is based in Sacramento and among other topics writes about teachers and teaching in California.
Recruiting and retaining Black teachers has taken on new urgency in recent years as California lawmakers try to ease the state’s teacher shortage. The state and individual school districts have launched initiatives to recruit teachers of color, but educators and advocates say more needs to be done.
CREEO at UC Berkeley is proud to share a significant milestone in developing the 
