• Read more about ASU's REMOTE K12 Connected Teacher Summit to share best practices for online and blended learning

Arizona State University has announced the REMOTE K12: The Connected Teacher Summit, a free, one-day immersive program coming on Jan. 9, 2021, to help K-12 teachers nationwide deliver better online and blended learning experiences.

REMOTE K12 will bring outstanding educators from across the country together to share effective and efficient virtual learning techniques and offer insights on pedagogy, course design, equity, wellness, accessibility, assessment, collaboration, engagement and more. Click here to register to attend for free.

• Read more about Morocco redesigns teacher preparation with help from MLFTC

Over the next five years, Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College will work with Morocco’s Ministry of Education, universities within the kingdom and teacher training institutions, with the aid of experienced technical assistance and private sector agencies, to form the Higher Education Partnership–Morocco. Funding is provided by USAID.

• Read more about MLFTC alumna awarded AZ Rural Schools Association Teacher of the Year

Vanessa Arredondo (BAE Elementary Education, Bilingual Education, ’14; MEd Curriculum and Instruction, ’16) was named Arizona Rural Schools Association Teacher of the Year for 2020.

Adding to her list of accomplishments, Arredondo is a first-generation college graduate. She came to the United States in third grade. “Like many of the students I teach, I had to learn English while adjusting to a new culture and living with family members,” she says.

• Read more about Faculty publication roundup, November 2020

• Read more about Fall 2020 graduate student poster contest features research of MLFTC students

The research of 10 graduate education students from Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College was featured in ASU’s virtual Institute for Social Science Research. Read about their interesting research below. 

Sae Saem Sofia Yoon 

What’s in a Name? A Narrative Study of International Students’ English Names

• Read more about In the news: For-profit college enrollment up during pandemic

Molly Ott, associate professor at ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, penned an article for The Conversation about the surprising enrollment increase in for-profit colleges amid the pandemic. Meanwhile, enrollment in public and private nonprofit universities, and community colleges is dropping. What are the factors behind the trend? 

• Read more about CADRE fellow is a crusader for statistical literacy for teachers

Amanda Riske (BA ’03), a PhD student in the Learning, Literacies and Technologies program at Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, was named a fellow of the Community for Advancing Discovery Research in Education. She is one of 10 fellows for 2020–21 from universities across the U.S.

• Read more about Salinas wins Council for Exceptional Children’s Spark Award

Sarah Salinas, a PhD student in the Educational Policy and Evaluation program at Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, is the 2020 winner of the Jane West Spark Award from the Teacher Education Division of the Council for Exceptional Children.

• Read more about In the news: ‘Writing to learn’ effective for more than learning to write

A meta-analysis study published by Steve Graham and two researchers from the University of Utah found that writing about content reliably enhanced learning, even for content in diverse subjects such as math, science and social studies. Graham, a Mary Emily Warner Professor of Education at Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, explained the study and its implications to The Hechinger Report.

Read about “Writing to learn"

• Read more about Veterans find support in transition to education careers

After being on the Arizona State University campus for nearly two years, Kagan Sherman has learned how to identify a fellow military veteran.