iTeachELLs was featured on an international platform called HundrED – a not-for-profit organization, which seeks and shares inspiring innovations in K12 education – highlighting their innovation, PBELL Lesson Plans. “Our goal is to help improve education and inspire a movement by encouraging pedagogically sound, ambitious innovations to spread across the world.” 

Mirka Koro — ASU Graduate College Outstanding Doctoral Mentor

Mirka Koro, professor of qualitative research and director of doctoral programs for Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, was named the Outstanding Doctoral Mentor by the ASU Graduate College for 2019–20. Koro will receive the award in a Feb. 24 ceremony.

Steve Graham, a Mary Ellen Warner Professor of Education at Arizona State University's Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, won the 2018 Sylvia Scribner Award, presented by the American Educational Research Association. Named for American psychologist Sylvia Scribner, the award recognizes researchers whose work over the last decade represents a significant advancement in the understanding of learning and instruction.

Martin Carnoy (back row, center left) and attendees of the February CASGE Distinguished Lecture

Fifty years ago, international testing was launched as a way to collect more data for developing an understanding of educational systems in a comparative perspective. Today, international testing has gained a life of its own, and average test scores are being used to define the quality of educational systems and even the quality of labor forces.

You’ve attended a PBELL training and you are now ready to put that knowledge into action.  You may be asking yourself, “What can I do to set my students up for success for their first PBELL experience?”  Here are four tips to help set the stage for a smooth PBELL experience for you and your students.

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