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.
Sun Devil 100 celebrates the achievements of Arizona State University alumni who own or lead successful, innovative businesses. This year, six alumni from ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College will be honored at the virtual ceremony on Sept. 17. They are:
Pedro Noguera, dean of the University of Southern California's Rossier School of Education, credits a large chunk of his educational success to his immigrant parents, who never received a high school diploma.
He began his career as a classroom teacher before holding positions as a faculty member, educational researcher and scholar at UC Berkeley, Harvard, Columbia and NYU. Noguera spent over 30 years researching the impact of complex social problems and inequities on poor and marginalized children.
The 2020–21 academic year is J. Bryan Henderson’s seventh year on the faculty of Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University, and the seventh year of a collaborative program he organizes on ASU’s Tempe campus: InSciEdOut.
Ronald Beghetto, Pinnacle West Presidential Chair Professor for Teacher Education, has been selected as co-editor of the Review of Research in Education, a publication of the American Educational Research Association. Beghetto, along with Yong Zhao, Foundation Distinguished Professor in the University of Kansas School of Education, will edit the 2022 and ’24 editions of RRE.
A monthly survey of books, chapters, articles and conference papers written by faculty members and graduate students of Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College
Jennifer Holm spoke for many Americans when she titled her 2011 fiction book for young readers, “Middle School is Worse than Meatloaf.”
Foundation Professor Geoffrey Borman