• Read more about A time-honored tradition returns to campus

Sun Devils are known for being able to withstand the heat, especially during trying times. 

But nothing feels better to Sun Devils right now than being able to celebrate one of ASU’s biggest events in the crisp Arizona winter after a pandemic pause. 

• Read more about MLFTC welcomes the Center on Reinventing Public Education

In February, the Center on Reinventing Public Education will be formally affiliating with Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College. The announcement was made today by MLFTC Dean Carole Basile and CRPE Director Robin Lake.

• Read more about International Fulbright educators work and learn in local schools through MLFTC

Professional development is critical in every career, particularly education. All educators need to be equipped with best practices based on current research in order to do their job effectively. And because classrooms are increasingly becoming more diverse, educators benefit from observing and interacting with colleagues outside of their districts, especially internationally. 

• Read more about Helping leaders support our youth

Karen Pittman, a sociologist, has spent the past 50 years working to bring research on how youth learn and develop, and how adults can support them, into policy and practice at the national, state and local levels. No small feat. 

As co-founder and senior fellow of the Forum for Youth Investment, a national nonprofit focusing on the development of youth, Pittman is committed to ensuring all young people are ready, by the age of 21, for college, work and life. 

• Read more about MLFTC offers budgeting resources for school leaders developing Next Education Workforce models

Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College is offering a collection of resources to help schools develop Next Education Workforce models without taking on a slew of new costs.

To build Next Education Workforce models, MLFTC works with schools and other partners to build teams of educators with distributed expertise, with the goal of providing all students with deeper and personalized learning and empowering educators to pursue new opportunities for role-based specialization and advancement. 

• Read more about Humanities Lab students continue to leave lasting marks at ASU, in greater community

Have you ever thought about the amount of single-use plastic cutlery disposed of daily on the ASU Tempe campus? How about in a semester? Or a year?

• Read more about In the news: CRPE researches the toll that the pandemic has had on all aspects of education

The Center on Reinventing Public Education, which formally joins MLFTC in February 2022, made headlines this month for its research on how the pandemic has affected — and continues to affect — education, school districts, teachers, students and families.

• Read more about From our journals: How the pandemic has affected educational policies

Education in times of global crisis: How private actors in Germany gain power through Twitter

By: Johannes Schuster and Nina Kolleck, Leipzig University 

Published in: Education Policy Analysis Archives, Nov. 29, 2021

• Read more about Faculty publication roundup, December & January

A monthly survey of books, chapters, articles, conference papers and presentations by faculty members and graduate students of Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College.

• Read more about In the news: Team teaching benefits students and educators

In the past, efforts to combat Arizona’s teacher shortage have focused on recruitment and frankly, haven’t worked, Brent Maddin, executive director of the Next Education Workforce initiative, told KJZZ 91.5 FM, a public radio station in Phoenix, Ariz. The initiative is helping schools move away from the traditional one-teacher, one-classroom approach and adapt a team-based model.