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.
The classroom is noisy. One reason is the rambunctious PE class on the other side of the windows in one wall. The other is the excitement level of the girls in the classroom, sitting in twin desks and chatting nonstop. At least one, often both of the girls in each pair taps away on a smartphone or tablet. They frequently look at each other’s screens, point, sometimes laugh and constantly talk.
Carole Greenes was selected to receive the 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Since 2010, Greenes has served as director of Arizona State University’s Practice Research and Innovation in Mathematics Education (PRIME) Center, and as professor of mathematics education in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
If it's late March and you hear cheers and boos coming from Stuart Rice's office, don't be too alarmed.
Odds are that the Arizona State University graduate student and EdPlus creative designer is simply reacting to a recent donation made on Sun Devil Giving Day, his various mood swings coming as he tracks the contributions made either to his school — the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College — or another college following closely behind his.
ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College placed No. 15 among 385 institutions surveyed in U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings of America’s graduate schools of education. Among public universities, the college was ranked No. 7. This year’s U.S. News & World Report survey solidifies ASU’s ascent to the top tier of colleges of education since 2012, when it ranked No. 35 in the survey.