This fall, nearly 100 third and fourth grade students in the Kyrene School District in Phoenix, Arizona, will experience the start of a school year different from any other. They will be the first student body of a new program that combines their two grade levels in an innovative learning space at Kyrene de las Manitas Elementary School.
After a two-year design collaboration between Phoenix’s Kyrene School District and ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, a new Kyrene program will open this fall in Kyrene de las Manitas Elementary. Nearly 100 students will be met by six instructors — three lead teachers from the district and three resident teacher candidates from MLFTC — working in teams led by the lead teachers and distributed across the two grade levels.
Overseeing this new type of school is a new type of teacher-leader — two of them — who wear the title teacher executive designer.
Read about and watch the video of Dean Carole Basile talking about MLFTC's team-teaching model.
Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College is partnering with AmeriCorps to recruit sophomores and juniors as mentors for first-year students.
Nothing gives Arizona State University freshman Larissa Lopez greater satisfaction than giving back to society.
That’s why the 18-year-old wants to teach elementary school students when she graduates from the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College in four years.
Over 70 years ago, James A. Banks was on an Arkansas farm, picking cotton. In a segregated community, he walked five miles to school while a bus took the “white kids.” Early on, Banks was aware of the inequality and inequitable opportunities available to him and developed a strong commitment to social justice issues.
Third-plus generation students — those born in the U.S. to U.S.-born parents — attend better-resourced schools compared to first- and second-generation students from immigrant families. But analysis reveals that these students who attend schools that do not serve immigrants are more likely to demonstrate lower academic achievement than their peers who do. In other words, attending school with immigrant student peers may actually improve the academic performance of third-plus generation learners.
Most of us have a generalized understanding that something called globalization has been happening for several decades (or centuries, depending on your historical yardstick), and that it involves the acceleration of the movement of people, capital, goods and ideas around the world.
So what does it mean for a college of education to think and act globally? For Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, it means operating on three broad fronts.
May’s commencement ceremony, like most, marked a beginning and an end. The final cohort of undergraduate Mastercard Foundation Scholars, and the first cohort of graduate scholars, both graduated from Arizona State University.
IgnitED Labs — located at Tempe, Polytechnic and West campuses — are hands-on, creative spaces filled with new and emerging technologies that aim to assist Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College students, staff and faculty members with teaching and learning. Tempe and Polytechnic labs are open now, and the West lab will be open mid-September.