• Read more about In the news: Sun Devil Learning Labs

FOX 10 Phoenix featured Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College’s new partnership with Mesa Public Schools, which provides free, small-group learning in after-school, virtual huddles for students in grades K–6. 

Special Education and Elementary Education major Kate Kostovski is participating in the program, called Sun Devil Learning Labs: After School Huddles, and conducting a remote internship with students in Mesa. She spoke alongside Kelly Owen, clinical assistant professor and senior program strategist. 

• Read more about Learning made visible through 3D-printed document cameras

In today’s world of online learning, making the process of thinking visible becomes challenging. In classrooms, teachers can show their work on the whiteboard and check students’ work in real time. Kelly Davis, MLFTC instructor, says this process is critical in teaching, especially in mathematics. 

• Read more about In the news: the pandemic’s effect on school-family relationships

Sherman Dorn’s blog, The Pandemic and Cultural Scripts of School-Family Relationships was published by the Albert Shanker Institute this summer. Dorn, director of the Division of Educational Leadership and Innovation at Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, reflects on how past historical traumas such as wars and pandemics have transformed the systems and structures of education. 

• Read more about New AERA fellow Maria Teresa Tatto introduced with video

Maria Teresa Tatto, Southwest Borderlands Professor of Comparative Education, was named a fellow of the American Educational Research Association last spring. New fellows are traditionally presented at AERA’s annual conference, but due to the cancellation of the event out of concerns over COVID-19, the in-person announcement couldn’t take place.

• Read more about New grant fuels adoption of redesigned school models

How can schools better serve learners and create more rewarding working environments and, ultimately, career paths for educators? 

To tackle this question, ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College received nearly $700,000 from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help schools outside of Arizona adopt Next Education Workforce models. The investment allows MLFTC to design and deploy technical assistance to catalyze the transformation of at least five schools over three years. 

• Read more about PhD student uses fellowship to explore youth action for equity, social transformation

Ashley D. Dominguez, an MLFTC research assistant and third-year student in the Learning, Literacies and Technologies PhD program, received a Ford Foundation Predoctoral Dissertation Fellowship. She is one of only 71 such fellows nationwide for 2020. Dominguez shared some of her thoughts about her research and the fellowship.

What’s your research focus?

• Read more about MLFTC hosts virtual TECBD conference

Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College will host its Teacher Educators for Children with Behavior Disorders Conference virtually this year. The annual conference is the premier educational research conference for teacher educators working with children and youth with severe behavioral disorders. To allow for more participation, the 2020 conference will be offered each Tuesday in November, rather than on consecutive days. TECBD Tuesdays are Nov. 3, 10, 17 and 24. 

• Read more about Faculty publication roundup, October 2020

A monthly survey of books, chapters, articles and conference papers written by faculty members and graduate students of Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College

• Read more about Simple intervention strategy improves outcomes for middle school students

Arizona State University Professor Geoffrey D. Borman has great empathy for middle schoolers.

He knows how painful the transition can be when elementary students have to make the jump to junior high school. The stresses of navigating grades, mental well-being, burgeoning sexuality and new social structures often causes anxiety and negative academic outcomes.

However, his work aims to ease that stress and offer guidance that will make students' lives more manageable.

• Read more about MLFTC hosts Next Education Workforce: Building the Next Normal

MLFTC will host Building the Next Normal, a two-day virtual convening about the Next Education Workforce in January. The event, open to the public, will focus on questions of equity, deeper and personalized learning, and how to build a more effective and sustainable education workforce.