Richard C. Anderson is an educational psychologist who has published influential research on children’s reading, vocabulary growth and story discussions that promote thinking. He is also the director of the Center for the Study of Reading, Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, professor at Beijing Normal University and president of China Children’s Books.
A cross-sector group of more than 100 leaders from K–12 district schools, higher education, educational nonprofits, school design, philanthropy and policy came together to contemplate The Next Educator Workforce in a two-day convening at Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College in May. Participants reconsidered the continuum of educator roles, participating in design challenges, work sessions and discussions with local and national experts.
A new degree program offered by ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College combines the college’s prowess in global education research with ASU’s innovative online platform. The program is designed for individuals interested in advancing in the growing field of international education.
Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College embraces its role in changing systems, structures and cultures of education organizations. While the nature of those systems and structures varies from state to state and nation to nation, the importance of education knows no borders. For decades our college has advanced research into next practices in education that benefit learners in all cultures.
Here is a sampling of recent and current research projects and international educator development programs to create knowledge to improve education.
Does Isolation from Immigrant Students Benefit or Harm Third-Plus Generation Students?
By: Margarita Pivovarova, MLFTC assistant professor, and Jeanne Powers, MLFTC associate professor
Published in: Education Policy Analysis Archives, June 24, 2019
The Ministry of Education in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has ambitions of restructuring the country’s educational landscape and has sought educational reform ideas from foreign countries. Building Leadership for Change through School Immersion — a professional development and leadership project — is one example of those efforts. Already in its second year, the program aims to transform the country’s educational system, starting with its teachers.
This summer, the ASU Alumni Association is helping Sun Devil educators get ready for back-to-school season with a maroon and gold Back to School Pack. The ASU-themed spirit packet, geared for alumni who work in schools at any level from pre-kindergarten through high school, contains items for the teacher, students and classroom.
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.
Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College is partnering with AmeriCorps to recruit sophomores and juniors as mentors for first-year students.