Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2018 commencement.
When a teenage boy in his community committed suicide, Jameson Lopez decided he wanted to do something for his tribe.
That something was dedicating his life to higher education and finding opportunities for Native Americans to obtain their degrees.
Niraj Javia graduated from Georgia Tech with a degree in engineering and quickly found work as a sales engineer at an electric company. Javia traveled to manufacturing plants all over the Southeast U.S., selling equipment to help the plants become more efficient. “I met with thousands of engineering teams and there was no diversity whatsoever,” he said.
Education has been a hot-button issue recently. Many people engaged in public dialogue, attended walk-ins and organized protests in efforts to effect change throughout the nation.
Situations such as these lead one to wonder: What is the most constructive way to engage in such dialogue? How do we equip our children with argumentation skills to effectively create social change?
Carole Greenes has been honored with the 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM).
Ana Contreras immigrated to Phoenix, Arizona from Mexico with her family when she was three years old. One of her first memories is of Head Start and the kind teachers she had — that kindness continued throughout her education. Contreras says her family didn’t have the means to buy her nice things like some of her classmates had, but her teachers made her feel special. “Whenever I thought about teaching, I thought about kind people,” she says.
Lora Eger never questioned what she wanted to do with her life: “I was born into teaching. Both of my parents are teachers and that’s all I know.” Eger grew up in a small town in Mesa and is now student teaching at a charter school in the same area. She teaches 7th-grade math and has signed a contract to teach at the school next year.
Along with teaching, Eger enjoys music. She grew up going to ASU football games and dreaming about being in the Sun Devil marching band. Eger promised herself she would be on that field — and she did just that.
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2018 commencement.
Lora Eger never questioned what she wanted to do with her life: “I was born into teaching. Both of my parents are teachers, and I have known nothing less.”
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2018 commencement.
Ana Contreras immigrated to Phoenix from Mexico with her family when she was three years old. One of her first memories she has is of the Head Start program and the kind teachers she had.
The 2016 and 2017 rounds of the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College internal grants program provided support for 15 research projects conducted by individuals and interdisciplinary teams comprising 20 MLFTC faculty members, three doctoral students and one staff member; and six faculty members of other colleges and institutions. Here’s a review of the projects and some of their results.
On a bright and warm — not yet dreadfully hot — day in May in Phoenix, Arizona, ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College celebrated the graduation of 704 men and women.