A $2.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education is funding a major collaboration to improve education. The Consortium for Open Active Pathways will use technology to increase the availability of college-level educational materials. Arizona State University's Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College is the lead unit in the consortium that partners ASU with three of America’s largest community college systems: the Maricopa Community Colleges in Phoenix, Miami Dade College (Florida) and Ivy Tech Community College (Indiana).
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This summer, nine teams of high school students from Arizona and Indiana traveled to Chicago to present their innovative solar energy projects at the 46th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC) High School Competition
How much of what you learned in high school do you still use 20 years later? Probably not a lot.
But a study conducted by researchers at Arizona State University found that one thing former students at Mountain Pointe High School in Phoenix still use is what they learned in their physical education class.
Building on the success and strong reputation of its teacher preparation program, known as iTeachAZ, ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College is moving on to its next generation of teacher-prep, which the college is calling MLFTC Professional Pathways.
After a two-year design collaboration between Phoenix’s Kyrene School District and ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, a new Kyrene program will open this fall in Kyrene de las Manitas Elementary. Nearly 100 students will be met by six instructors — three lead teachers from the district and three resident teacher candidates from MLFTC — working in teams led by the lead teachers and distributed across the two grade levels.
Overseeing this new type of school is a new type of teacher-leader — two of them — who wear the title teacher executive designer.
This fall, nearly 100 third and fourth grade students in the Kyrene School District in Phoenix, Arizona, will experience the start of a school year different from any other. They will be the first student body of a new program that combines their two grade levels in an innovative learning space at Kyrene de las Manitas Elementary School.
This summer, the ASU Alumni Association is helping Sun Devil educators get ready for back-to-school season with a maroon and gold Back to School Pack. The ASU-themed spirit packet, geared for alumni who work in schools at any level from pre-kindergarten through high school, contains items for the teacher, students and classroom.
The Ministry of Education in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has ambitions of restructuring the country’s educational landscape and has sought educational reform ideas from foreign countries. Building Leadership for Change through School Immersion — a professional development and leadership project — is one example of those efforts. Already in its second year, the program aims to transform the country’s educational system, starting with its teachers.
Does Isolation from Immigrant Students Benefit or Harm Third-Plus Generation Students?
By: Margarita Pivovarova, MLFTC assistant professor, and Jeanne Powers, MLFTC associate professor
Published in: Education Policy Analysis Archives, June 24, 2019