Cinthia Garcia (BAE '19) found her calling as a teacher in high school, but she didn’t discover her niche until she was in college.

Garcia, who is graduating from Arizona State University's Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College with a bachelor’s degree in elementary education (bilingual education and English as a second language), is ready to start her career and transform lives.

On May 9, the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College convocation ceremony graduated 745 graduates into the world’s most important profession. MLFTC is proud of the many accomplishments our graduates achieved during their time with us.

Here’s a look — by the numbers — at the MLFTC spring 2019 convocation:

 

Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College faculty and graduate students do groundbreaking work in research and curriculum development, and ASU and MLFTC support this work through competitive internal grants.

Three MLFTC faculty members received awards this spring from the ASU Faculty Fund for Teaching Excellence and Student Success.

In January, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College welcomed 18 visiting educators from around the globe. These guests from eight nations arrived as fellows of the Fulbright Distinguished Awards in Teaching Program for International Teachers. Fulbright DAI brings international primary and secondary school teachers to the U.S. to benefit from professional development and to share their experience and perspective with each other, with teachers and students in local schools, and with the community.

“The role of education might be conceived as the invention of yourself,” Elliot W. Eisner told Professor Audrey Amrein-Beardsley in 2012 during an interview for Inside the Academy of Education. Eisner was Lee Jacks Professor of Education and professor of Art at Stanford University before passing away in 2014.

Eisner, who invented himself as one of our country’s leading academic minds, dedicated his career to bringing the arts back into the American curriculum and using the arts as models for improving educational practice in other fields.

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