ASU has been awarded two new grants to support education among Arizona’s Tribal communities. The Arizona Department of Education is allocating $1 million to the Preparing Educators for Arizona's Indigenous Communities Project. The United States Department of Education has allocated $1.4 million to the same project through its Indian Educational Professional Development  Program.

Jill Koyama, vice dean and professor: Before joining MLFTC, Koyama was the Ernest W. McFarland Distinguished Professor in Leadership for Education Policy and Reform at the University of Arizona College of Education, where she was director of educational leadership and policy. She also directed the UA Education Policy Center and the Institute for LGBT Studies, and was an associate professor of graduate interdisciplinary programs. 

Arizona State University has been awarded two new grants to support education among Arizona’s tribal communities. The Arizona Department of Education is allocating $1 million to the Preparing Educators for Arizona's Indigenous Communities Project. The U.S. Department of Education has allocated $1.4 million to the same project through its Indian Educational Professional Development Program.

Any would-be changes to education standards and curricula have been sped up, at the hands of the pandemic. Many U.S. teacher preparation programs — including ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton Teacher College — are already incorporating more digital tools, online instruction and remote learning. 

MLFTC recently made the decision to offer some teacher-preparation programs remotely with the goal of making them more accessible to in-state residents who don’t live near a campus. 

Sierra Ochoa (MA ’21) says she chose the Learning Sciences master’s degree program at Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University because, “... it was the perfect educational research program for my interests, personal and professional.” Now she’s putting her degree to work as public programs manager at the world-renowned Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix, where she started as an education intern in 2017.

Sarup Mathur has been named the Ryan Courtney Harris Memorial Endowed Professor at Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College. A professor of special education in the division of educational leadership and innovation, Mathur is nationally recognized for her work in the field of emotional and behavioral disorders. She is a former secretary and president of the Council for Children with Behavioral Disorders and the past president of Teacher Educators for Children with Behavioral Disorders.

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