Many of the challenges confronting education and impeding its progress don’t have borders. So Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College is taking a leadership role in the international conversation about how best to address these challenges.

Like most things this year, the Mastercard Foundation Scholars reception looked a little different. This year’s theme, Resilience in Action, was nothing less than fitting. 

Over Zoom, 47 scholars shared their very personal projects that they worked on over the summer. Overall, nearly 200 people, from multiple continents, joined the event. 

Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College Professor, Pinnacle West Presidential Chair and Creativity Advisor for the LEGO Foundation Ronald A. Beghetto chatted — over Zoom — with Adidas about nurturing a creative identity in both children and adults through sport and play. 

Beghetto shares his insights and thoughts on how parents, educators and team leaders can fuel creativity — no matter the age. 

Twice a month, Arizona school and system leaders gather for rapid-fire crowdsourcing of solutions to immediate problems. 

What’s the key to unlocking remote student engagement? Someone has a resource for that. 

Can anyone share the pros and cons of different hybrid learning structures? Principals, chief academic officers and lead teachers are all here, ready to weigh in.

The annual Cathy Sanchez-Cañez Memorial Lecture Series was hosted by Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College throughout October. Three lectures focused on dyslexia, and featured Nancy Mather, Professor Emerita of disability and psychoeducational studies at the University of Arizona. Mather is author or co-author of many books and articles, including “Essentials of Dyslexia Assessment and Intervention” with Barbara Wendling (2011).

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