Steve Graham was named the winner of the 2019 E.L. Thorndike Career Achievement Award by the American Psychological Association. The Thorndike is among the most prestigious awards given to living educational psychologists for their career-long achievements and contributions to the field. The APA says Thorndike winners “...

IgnitED Labs — located at Tempe, Polytechnic and West campuses — are hands-on, creative spaces filled with new and emerging technologies that aim to assist Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College students, staff and faculty members with teaching and learning. Tempe and Polytechnic labs are open now, and the West lab will be open mid-September. 

iTeachELLs Project Director Wendy Farr wrote an article for ARISE in which she explains the instructional model of PBELL — Problem-based Enhanced Language Learning — developed by the iTeachELLs team. “PBELL is a unique approach to problem-based learning that takes the established PBL pedagogy and enhances the student experience by developing specific language skills.” Farr talks about the impact PBELL lesson structures have on student learning experiences; specifically how intentional planning for language elevated access to rigorous content.

Education is like many fields: Practitioners can struggle to connect the theoretical — research — with the actual. In education, the practice of action research provides a path between the two. And Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College Associate Professor Craig Mertler helps educators find that path.

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