UCBHSSP Events

Join educators from across California for a season of engaging workshops, virtual sessions, and collaborative learning designed to help you meet today's instructional challenges with confidence. Whether you're looking to strengthen civic learning, support multilingual learners, facilitate respectful discussions on complex topics, or deepen students' historical thinking, UCBHSSP offers practical strategies you can use immediately.

Every UCBHSSP event is grounded in classroom practice. Our sessions are led by experienced educators and scholars who understand the realities of teaching and provide ready-to-use lessons, instructional routines, and opportunities to collaborate with colleagues who share your commitment to meaningful learning.

Please check this site throughout the current semester as we add new events regularly.

Practicing an Ethnic Studies - Nonviolence Framework

Saturday, September 19, 2026, UC Berkeley - Dwinelle Hall, 9:00-12:00 PST

When the world feels overwhelming, students and educators need practical ways to reconnect with hope, empathy, and community. In this interactive workshop, participants will use principles from Nonviolent Communication and ethnic studies to reflect through writing, explore their feelings and needs, and develop an action plan to address real challenges in their classrooms or communities.

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Language Learner Educators Content Modification Workshop

Saturday, September 19, 2026, UC Berkeley - Dwinelle Hall, 9:00-3:00 PST

On Saturday, September 19th UCBHSSP and Educators from around California will convene at UC Berkeley’s Dwinelle Hall to learn about our approach to modifying content to meet the needs of language learner students across multiple fields of study.  Over the course of a morning and afternoon session we will model the protocol we've developed, and coach educators on how to implement this framework into their instructional plans.

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Ethnic Studies Content for Language Learners

Tuesday, September 22, 2026, Virtually on ZOOM 4:00-5:00 PST

Ethnic Studies teachers are often expected to build courses from scratch, and finding high-quality lessons designed for multilingual learners can be even more challenging. Join UCBHSSP for a free Zoom showcase on Tuesday, September 22 at 4:00 PM PST to explore our classroom-ready lessons and a practical framework for creating your own language-accessible Ethnic Studies curriculum... because Ethnic Studies is too important to be lost in translation.

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Integrated Action Civics Project Saturday Workshop Series

Saturdays, Virtually on ZOOM 9:00am-12:00pm PST

Help students move from learning about the world to making a difference in it. This five-part virtual workshop series introduces the Integrated Action Civics Project (IACP), a practical framework that helps educators build student voice, critical thinking, and civic agency into any subject area—from history and ethnic studies to science, art, and English language arts. Attend one session or the full series to gain classroom-ready strategies that empower students to understand social change, analyze real-world issues, and take meaningful civic action. Workshops include:

Sep. 26, 2026: Introduction to IACP, Worldview, Envisioning Justice

Oct. 24, 2026: Problem Analysis, Clarify Focus

Nov. 14, 2026: Power Analysis

Jan. 16, 2027: Local History / Stake & Rights-holders Analysis

Feb. 20, 2027: Strategize, Messaging and Taking Action

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Historical Thinking to Support Reading & Writing

Various Dates, Starting Tuesday, October 6th, 4:30p - 5:30p PST on ZOOM

UCBHSSP is launching a free 6-part virtual series for K12 history–social science teachers: Historical Thinking to Support Reading & Writing. Each hour-long session takes on one of Peter Seixas and Tom Morton's Big Six historical thinking concepts: significance, evidence, continuity and change, cause and consequence, historical perspectives, and the ethical dimension - and turns it into concrete reading and writing strategies you can use the next day in class.

This fall, three sessions run on Tuesdays at 4:30–5:30 PM: Significance (Oct 6), Evidence (Oct 20), and Continuity and Change (Nov 17). Three more sessions continue the series in spring 2027 (dates coming soon).

Free and open to all California educators. Register once to hold your spot for the whole series, or sign up session by session.

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C-E-R Writing in the History Classroom

Tuesday October 13th, 4:00p - 5:30p PST on ZOOM

The UCBHSSP is excited to offer a virtual workshop on Claim-Evidence-Reasoning (CER) for K-12 history educators. We'll explore how the CER framework can structure both close reading of primary sources and student writing, sharing practical strategies, sentence scaffolds, and sample lessons for building evidence-based historical arguments in your classroom. Educators will leave with resources ready to use in their next unit.  This workshop will be led by Phyllis Goldsmith.

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Language Learner Educator Community Convening

Saturday, November 14th 2026, 9:00am - 3:00pm PST @ UC Berkeley

The UCBHSSP is excited to offer a convening for MLL educators, coordinators and administrators. We will discuss the challenges and opportunities in our schools to support educators by sharing approaches to assessment and intake, master schedules and course offerings, and pd and structured collaboration amongst teachers. The convening will offer opportunities to network and learn how districts are addressing the needs of newcomers and MLL students.

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Note on Program Accessibility: If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in a UCBHSSP event, please contact Rachel Reinhard at ucbhssp@berkeley.edu with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days in advance of the event.

Contact: ucbhssp@berkeley.edu

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