Elisabeth Gee owes her place on her current research team to people who don’t exist.
There are more than 400 high schools in Arizona. You see their students in your neighborhood, walking to school or waiting for the bus, in a nearby Target store shopping for school supplies in late summer, or loudly filling a high school football stadium under Friday night lights.
But there is one Arizona high school whose students you never see. They don’t take the bus. They don’t shop. They don’t go to the game. They don’t even go home after school because home and school are behind the same tall fence topped with razor wire.
Katie Bernstein: article (author) — “The Perks of Being Peripheral: English Learning and Participation in a Preschool Classroom Network of Practice” (TESOL Quarterly)
Hans van der Mars, MLFTC professor and program coordinator of Physical Education, knows it will take a lot of time for the U.S. education system to really embrace physical education again, but it’s making progress.
Unfortunately, it took a significant rise in obesity among children and youth for PE to get increased attention. Van der Mars says policymakers continue to define education almost entirely by “what goes on just above the neck.” The body is seen as an appendix, he comments.
Teachers have the unique opportunity to touch a life so profoundly that the information they convey will live on with a student forever. Every teacher knows this. They receive letters, notes and invitations from former students for decades after they’ve left the classroom.
How do you get 1,500 school supplies from Arizona to an island nearly 3,000 miles away?
As faculty, staff and students at Arizona State University discovered, the answer is: “with a great deal of effort and support.”
In the end, 12 large boxes, some weighing as much as 94 pounds, packed with books, backpacks, pencils and other essentials arrived at four elementary schools in Puerto Rico that had been in woeful need of supplies since Hurricane Maria’s plundering of the island in September.
The absence of Black women in STEM is not unique to South Africa. The U.S. and U.K. face the same challenge but, Yeukai Angela Mlambo, postdoctoral scholar at the Center for Advanced Studies in Global Education at Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College says, “In South Africa it’s particularly curious given Black women are the majority of the population, hold more engineering graduate degrees than white women and the country is more than 20 years post-apartheid.”
Juliet Hart Barnett chapter (co-author) —Bilingualism (Sage Encyclopedia of Intellectual and Developmental Disorders)
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Some may say what we’re doing with education is insane. Here in the United States, we don’t have the education workforce we require and, yet, we keep using the same model that was designed in the early 20th century.
It’s safe — and sad — to say each of us has had some sort of experience with bullying, whether it be firsthand or indirectly. That said, Natasha O’Connell and Kimberlee Franco, both elementary education students at Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College; as well as students of Barrett, the Honors College, say it can be the impetus for change.