About Us

The Excellence through Collaborative Opportunities (ECO) Center serves as the administrative arm for Graduate School of Education (GSE) school-university partnerships. Specific responsibilities of the ECO Center include:

1) Serving as an information clearing-house for GSE school-university partnerships, research & enrichment activities;
2) promoting GSE faculty according to individual & collective areas of expertise;
3) articulating the goals & mission of GSE & UCB in school-university partnerships, research & enrichment activities to promote collaborations;
4) promoting & administering partnerships with on-campus & off-campus units in ways that facilitate collaboration based on addressing mutually defined educational needs;
5) promoting the dissemination of educational information to academic & professional communities;
6) keeping abreast of innovations in education & technology that promote collaborations; and
7) sponsoring GSE collaborative, educational, & enrichment activities.

The Graduate School of Education (GSE) is committed to providing leadership and promoting the improvement of educational practice with the goal of achieving high standards of learning and development for all students. It does so within a coherent, integrated, and collaborative set of strategies relying on its multiple roles in research, teaching, and public service.

 

Cornestones of Commitment

 

GSE Research, Teaching, and Public Service Activities:

• target schools and related educational and community systems that act together to influence the educational opportunities of students. In particular, schools serving culturally and economically diverse students are a priority for partnership efforts;
• assist in the development, implementation and institutionalization of university, school, community and private sector partnerships, building the capacity of these efforts to meet the goal of student enhancement;
• are long-term, with adequate resources drawn from the GSE and its partners to be effective in recognizing the importance of ongoing evaluation and evolution of these efforts;
• promote scholarly development through interventions that serve to educate the whole student, with a clear focus on high expectations;
• are locally designed to meet the particular challenges of local circumstances, adopting a collegial and non-hierarchical structure that is inclusive and considers diversity as a resource;
• involve California's educators, particularly teachers and administrators, in roles on campus that create opportunities for mutual learning;
• that are successful are integrated with new and developing activities into a more comprehensive and interrelated vision;
• include opportunities for all partners to share and gain new knowledge by bridging educational research and practice;
• include opportunities for broad dissemination of new knowledge within the academic and professional communities.

 

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Last Updated: March 22, 2002
by eco@socrates.berkeley.edu