Week 5

Learn about the concept of differentiated instruction and explore how to effectively support students with varying academic backgrounds in large lectures, labs, and discussion sections. Through real-world scenarios and reflective activities, participants will identify common challenges, analyze inclusive teaching strategies, and consider how to adapt their practices to better support all learners. Presenter: Elyse Gueidon, Associate Director for Graduate Student Professional Development with Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Scholar Engagement #differentiatedinstruction #realworldscenarios #commonchallenges Each academic quarter, the UCLA Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) hosts a weekly series of 10+10 Pop-Up sessions on Zoom. These brief, 10-minute presentations focus on specific topics related to course design, teaching, learning, and assessment, and are led by instructional designers and developers from TLC and campus partners. The “+10” refers to an optional 10-minute discussion following each presentation, where participants can ask questions and share insights. These sessions are open to all UCLA instructors—including faculty, lecturers, instructors of record, graduate student instructors, and postdoctoral scholars. Please direct any inquiries to instructorsupport@teaching.ucla.edu.

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This foundational pedagogical workshop prepares participants to create student-centered and effective lesson plans using the framework of backward design. Participants will explore the three steps of backward design–developing student learning objectives, determining assessment evidence, and choosing activities and instruction – and practice applying that structure to design of sample lesson plans. This session is open to all instructors, including faculty, TAs, and postdocs. This workshop will be hosted in-person and facilitated by the Teaching and Learning Center (TLC). Please contact instructorsupport@teaching.ucla.edu if you have any questions.

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The Bruin Love Station (BLS) is mobile cart that offers free safer-sex supplies, Narcan, fentanyl test strips and opportunities for students to converse with trained peers and professional staff.

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What is sky? Both a border for land and sea, and a blank canvas for portents and celestial events, sky reflects fears and hopes for stasis in a changing and unpredictable environment. This conference will bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to explore early modern concepts of sky from a variety of environmentally consequential perspectives, from the history of science and art, to poetics and literature.

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Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Hammer Museum In-person: chef and restaurateur Alice Waters. Admission is free. No advance reservations. Your seat will be assigned to you when you pick up your ticket at the box office. Seats are assigned on a first come, first served basis. The box office opens one hour before the event. Always for Pleasure U.S., 1978 On the streets and porches, in the living rooms and the kitchens of New Orleans, documentarian Les Blank observes an American city like no other. As one of his subjects puts it, “It’s the last place in America that you feel just sort of free to live.” A graduate of Tulane University, Blank acknowledges the complexity of the city’s history in that regard which deepens its scenes of jubilant celebrations brimming with life, from St. Patrick’s Day to Mardi Gras where red beans and rice and Cajun seasoned crawdads are consumed with copious amounts of beer. DCP, color, 58 min. Director: Les Blank. Yum, Yum, Yum!: A Taste of the Cajun and Creole Cooking of Louisiana U.S., 1990 As Margaret Chenier, wife of zydeco master Clifton Chenier, slices fresh garlic in her Louisiana backyard, documentarian Les Blank asks her off-screen, “You don’t use garlic powder?” Without missing a slice she recalls her mother’s cooking and rejects the idea full stop: “There’s a lot of new stuff coming out but … we use that real good stuff.” Blank’s intimate deep dive into the techniques of Cajun and Creole chefs is all about the real good stuff they put into the preparation of catfish, crawfish, okara, chicken sauce piquante, candied yams, beef tongue and more. A mouth-watering melding of music, food and tradition, Yum Yum Yum delivers exactly what its title evokes. DCP, color, 31 min. Director: Les Blank. —Senior Public Programmer Paul Malcolm Part of: Food and Film

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CRAA D1A League Match

Co-presented by Giant Robot In-person: filmmaker Jon Moritsugu. Admission is free. No advance reservations. Your seat will be assigned to you when you pick up your ticket at the box office. Seats are assigned on a first come, first served basis. The box office opens one hour before the event. Numbskull Revolution U.S., 2025 World theatrical premiere! With raucous, three-chord cinematic bangers such as My Degeneration (1989), Terminal USA (1993) and Mod Fuck Explosion (1994), the Godfather of Punk Cinema, filmmaker Jon Moritsugu, defined the trashy, rough-hewn DIY aesthetic of 1990s underground filmmaking. The Archive is thrilled to welcome Moritsugu back to the Billy Wilder Theater for the world theatrical premiere of Numbskull Revolution, his first feature in over a decade, created with longtime collaborator and ex-wife, Amy Davis. She and James Duval play a pair of rival conceptual artists battling for fame and funding in the near-future dystopia of Shitville, Earth. As one ascends the heights of neoliberal capitalist success, the other seeks inspiration and solace in the euphoric waves of a new cyber drug called Skullfuck. Ingenious production design and savvy location shooting evoke the urban sprawl and rural industrial collapse against which Mortisugu frames this scathing satire of art world pretension. DCP, color, 93 min. Director: Jon Moritsugu. Screenwriters: Amy Davis, Jon Moritsugu. With: Amy Davis, James Duval. Programmed and note written by Senior Public Programmer Paul Malcolm. Part of: Numbskull Revolution

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In-person: director Grace Lee (UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television M.F.A. ’02) and Grace Kim, Nodutol community organizer. Prerecorded introduction by filmmakers Christine Choy and J.T. Takagi. Admission is free. No advance reservations. Your seat will be assigned to you when you pick up your ticket at the box office. Seats are assigned on a first come, first served basis. The box office opens one hour before the event. Make a Wish Itmanna, Palestine, 2006 20th anniversary screening Shot on mini-DV in the occupied West Bank, Cherien Dabis’ debut follows eleven-year-old Mariam’s determined quest to buy a birthday cake — a simple act complicated by life under occupation. As critic Marya E. Gates writes, the short “packs an emotional wallop that pushes you to reconsider everything.” Poignant then and even more urgent now, Make a Wish launched Dabis’ career after premiering at the Sundance Film Festival and being screened at festivals worldwide. Digital, color, 12 min. Director/Screenwriter: Cherien Dabis. With: Mayar Rantisse, Lone Khilleh, Iman Aoun. Homes Apart: Korea U.S./Korea, 1991 Filmed in both North and South Korea, Homes Apart follows one man’s emotional journey to reunite with his sister decades after the Korean War divided their family. Through intimate encounters and candid interviews, directors Christine Choy and J.T. Takagi trace the human cost of political separation. Combining personal testimony with geopolitical insight, the film reveals the deep longing, shared culture and unresolved tensions that continue to define the Korean peninsula today. Digital, color, 56 min. Directors: Christine Choy, J.T. Takagi. Screenwriter: David Henry Hwang. American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs U.S., 2013 From the intimacy of her kitchen table to walks through Detroit’s post-industrial urban gardens, Grace Lee’s documentary portrait of her mentor offers a compelling look at the extraordinary life of philosopher, activist and Chinese American immigrant Grace Lee Boggs. A radical thinker and cornerstone of Black liberation movements, Boggs — who died in 2015 at age 100 — transformed abstract philosophy into community action. At once personal and profound, American Revolutionary captures Boggs at 98, still questioning, teaching and evolving her vision of what it means to change the world. DCP, color, 82 min. Director: Grace Lee. With: Grace Lee Boggs, Bill Moyers, Angela Davis. —Public Programmer Beandrea July Part of: (Dis)placement: Fluctuations of Home, Part II

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