iTeachELLs Project Director, Wendy Farr was recently featured in the Arizona Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (AZTESOL) Newsletter where she shares information on materials that can help teachers become more deeply involved in practice and awareness when working in classrooms with culturally and linguistically diverse learners.
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Late last month, 12 Herberger Young Scholars Academy students were recognized with prestigious awards from Cambridge Assessment International Education to acknowledge their outstanding performance in the Cambridge examination series. The Cambridge International General Certificate of Secondary Education is the world’s most popular international curriculum for 14 to 16-year-olds. It’s internationally recognized by leading universities and employers.
EdBuild, a nonprofit studying education funding, recently published a report citing that nationwide and in Arizona, predominately white school districts get more money per student than non-white districts. The gap? A hefty $23 billion.
iTeachELLs Project Director, Wendy Farr wrote an article for Edutopia outlining the challenge teachers are facing supporting dually classified learners in the classroom. To address the challenge, she proposes the instructional model called Problem-based Enhanced Language Learning (PBELL) developed by the iTeachELLs team at ASU.
Arizona native Joan Ganz Cooney created the iconic children’s educational program “Sesame Street” and the Children’s Television Workshop when she worked in television in New York City in the 1960s. When educational television needed funding to keep going, she turned to the late Senator Barry Goldwater, who was a friend of her father’s.
Arizona’s K–12 education system appears to be fairly straightforward at first glance. But it’s easy to get into the weeds when you start digging.
School choice options have become increasingly popular in Arizona in the last few decades, but sometimes it’s hard to distinguish which is the best path to take: public, charter, or private school? What’s the difference?
A monthly survey of books, chapters, articles and conference papers written by faculty members and graduate students of Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College.
Audrey Amrein-Beardsley — professor, associate director | Kevin Close — PhD candidate: Learning, Literacies and Technologies
The American Educational Research Association, the leading organization for advancing knowledge about education and promoting the application of educational research, is holding its 2019 Annual Meeting April 5-9 in Toronto.
Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College is proud to have more than 90 of our scholars presenting, speaking or participating this year. See all their sessions below.
Denis Alvarez knew that she wanted to become a teacher and that she wanted to go to ASU. What she didn’t know was how to pay for it … until a generous donation helped make her dreams come true.
“When I learned I had received a scholarship, and that a private donor had decided to fund the rest of my tuition, I started to cry,” Alvarez says. “I wouldn’t be here without the scholarship.”
Watch Denis’ video.
A $2.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education is funding a major collaboration to improve education. The Consortium for Open Active Pathways will use technology to increase the availability of college-level educational materials. Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College is the lead unit in the consortium which partners ASU with three of America’s largest community college systems: the Maricopa Community Colleges in Phoenix, Miami Dade College (Florida) and Ivy Tech Community College (Indiana).