Editor's note: This story is part of a series of profiles of outstanding spring 2020 graduates.
Arizona State University graduate Nick Matula has been recently named lead of the Corporate Responsibility Team at the Verizon Foundation.
Matula has graduated with a social and cultural pedagogy master's degree at the School of Social Transformation.
Working with dually classified learners can pose distinctive challenges for educators. Those diagnosed with special needs who are also English language learners (ELLs) have specific, unique needs (specifically struggles with language). These dually classified learners are identified with a disability and are eligible for both special education and English as a second language or bilingual services.
The joys of gardening: head in the sun, hands in the dirt, something living where nothing lived before, and finally the crunch and snap and taste of what you and nature have created together. Indeed one of life’s pleasures, and one worth learning and teaching.
But how do you teach it online? It’s not exactly calculus or ancient Roman history.
One Arizona State University instructor has cracked that problem, and it’s not only successful — it’s turning out to have some advantages no one expected.
Editor's note: This story is part of a series of profiles of outstanding spring 2020 graduates.
For Arizona State University Police Chief Michael Thompson, the fifth's time the charm: This May will be his fifth time in cap and gown.
Whether you’re going camping in the Superstition Mountains for the weekend or spending two months in the Himalayas, you’re going to need some basic skills: pitching a tent, cooking on a tiny stove and layering your clothes to suit the weather.
Joey LaNeve teaches those skills at Arizona State University in a class called Introduction to Outdoor Recreation.
Stephen Santa-Ramirez (PhD ’20) will be joining the faculty at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, as a tenure-track assistant professor of higher education in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy. He graduated this month with a PhD in Educational Policy and Evaluation from Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University.
Relaunching in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the journal Current Issues in Education returns this month with a special issue on Shaping the Futures of Learning in the Digital Age.
A monthly survey of books, chapters, articles and conference papers written by faculty members and graduate students of Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College
Standing shoulder-to-shoulder with medical researchers in the efforts to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus, social scientists are taking the pulse of society and examining underlying conditions now magnified by the pandemic. The crisis, Arizona State University sociologists say, is shining a light on the cracks of human society that need to be addressed.
Due to the global pandemic, many families are wondering whether and how schools will reopen this fall. Schools might physically reopen and then be forced to close because of a sudden spike in COVID-19 transmission. There are still many uncertainties about how schools will handle new social distancing protocols and the potential shifts between in-person learning and remote instruction.
Through all of this disruption, schools and communities will need to support families and students by addressing challenges having to do with health, instruction and equity.