Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College adds faculty with expertise in social justice, privilege, oppression, and race and colorism, among others.
Geoffrey Borman, Foundation Professor: Borman comes to MLFTC from University of Wisconsin – Madison where he was a professor, researcher and the director of the University's Postdoctoral Interdisciplinary Research Training Program. His area of expertise is K–12 education policy, applied statistics and research methods.
Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College hosted the first in a series of trainings engaging Moroccan educators about Next Education Workforce models.
When the pandemic hit, parents and educators panicked over how children would get an education. Most schools and classes moved online. Overnight, parents transformed themselves into teachers and teachers transformed the way they taught. And together, everyone scrambled for resources and the online education marketplace flourished.
Arizona State University offers more than 800 fully accredited undergraduate and graduate degree programs — not to mention more than 270 minors and certificates — and that number is growing this fall.
From sports business to political philosophy to venture development, these new programs will equip students with the knowledge and hands-on learning to thrive in their future careers. Here are some of the new options for fall 2020.
American studies
A monthly survey of books, chapters, articles and conference papers written by faculty members and graduate students of Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College
Next month, Assistant Professor Mildred Boveda is launching the virtual learning community, “Starting from Complexity, Engaging Black Women’s Literature and Epistemologies,” funded through MLFTC’s Office of Scholarship and Innovation. The monthly book club will focus on reading and discussing literature by Black women — poetry, essays, novels and nonfiction — in an effort to understand how the work can inform education research, policy and practice.
Here, Boveda shares her inspiration and hopes for the project.
This month, we dive into the challenge of educating global citizens, and take a look at the motivations of emergency certified teachers. We also feature a special issue of EPAA about new directions for the use of social network analysis in education policy.
Educating Students to Improve the World
By: Marta Estellés Frade (MLFTC alumna), Universidad de Cantabria, Spain
With the start of the 2020–21 academic year, several faculty members at Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College are continuing or commencing research studies with the support of MLFTC internal grants. These grants are disbursed through a competitive process managed by the college’s Office of Scholarship and Innovation.
Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University is offering five new degree programs beginning fall 2020: three master’s degrees and two bachelor’s, including one that leads to teacher certification for visually impaired students. Four degrees are offered 100-percent online.
In 2018, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College placed its first students in new team-based professional experiences designed to address the workforce design problem at the heart of Arizona’s teacher shortage. In less than two years, more than 15 school districts have adopted the model.