Gladys L. Benerd School of Education

About the School

We are a small, comprehensive, independent School of Education:

• With a rich history - more than 80 years as a School of Education in California’s first chartered college or university (Pacific was chartered in 1851)
  
  
• With a faculty that takes our mission very seriously - to prepare and nurture thoughtful, reflective, caring, and collaborative teachers, administrators, school psychologists, and other school professionals
  
  
• With a faculty that lives its six core values - scholarship, integrity and ethical conduct, diversity, social and community responsibility, collegiality, and teaching and learning
  
  
• Which is fully accredited by both the Commission on Teacher Credentialing  ( CTC) and The National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education
  ( NCATE)