Ashley D. Dominguez, an MLFTC research assistant and third-year student in the Learning, Literacies and Technologies PhD program, received a Ford Foundation Predoctoral Dissertation Fellowship. She is one of only 71 such fellows nationwide for 2020. Dominguez shared some of her thoughts about her research and the fellowship.
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Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College will host its Teacher Educators for Children with Behavior Disorders Conference virtually this year. The annual conference is the premier educational research conference for teacher educators working with children and youth with severe behavioral disorders. To allow for more participation, the 2020 conference will be offered each Tuesday in November, rather than on consecutive days. TECBD Tuesdays are Nov. 3, 10, 17 and 24.
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Arizona State University Professor Geoffrey D. Borman has great empathy for middle schoolers.
He knows how painful the transition can be when elementary students have to make the jump to junior high school. The stresses of navigating grades, mental well-being, burgeoning sexuality and new social structures often causes anxiety and negative academic outcomes.
However, his work aims to ease that stress and offer guidance that will make students' lives more manageable.
MLFTC will host Building the Next Normal, a two-day virtual convening about the Next Education Workforce in January. The event, open to the public, will focus on questions of equity, deeper and personalized learning, and how to build a more effective and sustainable education workforce.
Students with disabilities could benefit if schools used what they’re learning about remote education to improve in-person instruction, says Lauren Katzman, executive director of the Urban Collaborative, a national network of more than 100 school districts focused on improving outcomes for students with disabilities.
UNESCO — the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization — commissioned a series of background papers for its Futures of Education initiative and “Learning to Become,” a large-scale report on global education to be published later this year.
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.
Communities are rich in experienced adults who have knowledge and expertise but lack the instructional skills of professional teachers. Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College is developing new nanocourses for community educators who can complement professional educators in both physical and remote settings.
Three organizations have committed to collaborate with Mesa Public Schools, the largest school district in Arizona with more than 64,000 students, to support district leaders in efforts to create equitable learning outcomes and better prepare all students for the demands of college, career and civic life.