Regents Professors are considered to be the best and brightest scholars and the top researchers at Arizona State University. Less than 3% of all ASU faculty hold the title. In order to receive the Regents Professor title, faculty must be recognized by their peers nationally and internationally. On November 18, names were submitted to President Michael M. Crow and approved by the Arizona Board of Regents. Karen Harris, Mary Emily Warner Professor of Education at Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, was one of those names.
David MacKinnon didn’t have much time to digest the news when Arizona State University President Michael M. Crow recently informed him that he was being named a Regents Professor — the most prestigious and highest faculty award possible.
“Oh wow, that’s great!” MacKinnon said. “But um … I have a class to teach in 15 minutes.”
Since then, the psychology professor has had more time to contemplate the award, and he says it has finally sunk in.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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?
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.
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