Each year, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College honors faculty members whose scholarship and teaching embody our mission to create knowledge, mobilize people and take action to improve education. This year, we are pleased to honor four faculty members who, in different ways, exemplify excellence and a spirit of creative intrapreneurship.
Excellence in Research Achievement
A monthly survey of books, chapters, articles and conference papers written by faculty members and graduate students of Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College.
Leanna Archambault | article (co-author) "Responsible Innovation and Education: integrating values and technology in the classroom" Journal of Responsible Innovation, Sept. 2018
This semester, four Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College researchers are utilizing grants awarded by the Institute for Social Science Research at Arizona State University. The projects they submitted to ISSR were recognized for having particular significance to the social sciences, with the potential to benefit communities through contributions beyond education research.
A year ago, we announced we were reimagining our college of education. Big words, admittedly. But we also have to admit that our education system does not reliably do what we need it to do for nearly enough people and communities. So, a year later, it’s time to ask: What are we doing about it?
Imagine being part of a process that allows you the freedom to solve a challenge with no predetermined “right” answer. If there were answers to choose from, they still would not be correct because you would be missing a key component — empathy — and your thinking would be severely limited.
“I have always seen education as a key to moving our society move forward,” alumna Angel Jannasch-Pennell (PhD '96) says of earning her degree in Curriculum and Instruction, Special Education. And moving forward is just what Jannasch-Pennell helps educators and educational organizations do.
Last April, the iTeachELLs Teacher Quality Partnership Project, an initiative of ASU's Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, sponsored a visit from Joel Westheimer. The author and commentator facilitated three events focusing on the topic, "Teacher as Citizen," and based on his book, "What Kind of Citizen? Educating our children for the common good."
Arizona State University has welcomed 52 Saudi Arabian educators to the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College as part of the yearlong Building Leadership for Change Through School Immersion program. Developed by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Education, the program — which will run through February 2019 — is in direct response to the Saudi Arabian government’s goal of investing in the future of their country by improving and innovating their schools.
Earlier this month, Kristen Hadeed, founder of Student Maid and author of “Permission to Screw Up,” visited ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College to give a talk and workshop on leadership.
High school math teacher Andrew Strom felt thrilled when he was recruited for an eight-week stretch working with Arizona State University engineering researchers this past summer.
Another feeling emerged once he began getting immersed in the researchers’ projects.
“It was very humbling because I realized I don’t really know anything,” Strom said with obvious humor.
But the thrill wasn’t gone. It was amplified.