This fall, Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College will welcome the first ASU Teaching Fellows cohorts. The initiative offers an accelerated and supportive pathway for paraeducators, who are school employees that assist certified teachers, to earn their own elementary education or special education certification and bachelor's degree while continuing to work in Arizona classrooms.
The overarching goal of the NIGMS Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) R25 program is to support educational activities that encourage pre-college students (pre-kindergarten to grade 12) from diverse backgrounds, including those from groups underrepresented in the biomedical and behavioral sciences, to pursue further studies in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).
SEPA supports two types of projects:
More than a dozen school systems across the United States are designing pilots of Next Education Workforce™ models this spring. Rather than isolating one teacher in one classroom with 30 or so students, these models bring together teams of educators with distributed expertise around a larger roster of students — a change that allows educators to deepen and personalize learning for their students, while also creating opportunities for educators to specialize and advance in their profession.
Hans van der Mars, emeritus professor
Lauren Harris, associate professor of history education at Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, has been conducting research for more than a decade on the to
Madison Stallard (BAE, ’23) chose to pursue her studies at Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College where she saw an opportunity to blend academic rigor with her interest in educational equity.
Stallard, who is also part of Barrett, The Honors College, collaborated with one of her classmates to create a student organization that seeks to empower future educators to better serve students of diverse, economically challenged backgrounds.
Founded in 1988 by Regents Professor Gene V Glass and first led by Executive Editor Leslie Poynor, Current Issues in Education, or CIE, is an open access, peer-r
Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College's Next Education Workforce initiative addresses challenges of workforce design in traditional education models.
By: Meseret Hailu, Earl Lee, Atota Halkiyo, Keti Tsotniashvili and Neelakshi Rajeev Tewari, Arizona State University
Published in: Education Policy Analysis Archives, March 7, 2023
Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College is known for its range of education-focused research projects led by faculty, and for its culture of encouraging student involvement and collaboration.