Case Story

Appreciative Inquiry at Los Angeles Universal Preschool (LAUP): The LAUP/UDEM Dream Team

By Terri Egan, Nancy Westrup Villarreal, and Daphne Deporres

Client Organizations

For over a decade we have collaborated on field projects teaching AI to students in graduate programs at Pepperdine University and the Universidad de Monterrey. This tells the story of one of these collaborations—a unique project with two clients: Los Angeles Universal Preschool (LAUP) and sixteen students pertaining to the 59th cohort from The Universidad de Monterrey master’s in organization development program.

Los Angeles Universal Preschool (LAUP) is a non-profit organization supporting high-quality preschool (pre-k) education for the children of Los Angeles ...

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