Stephen Santa-Ramirez (PhD ’20) will be joining the faculty at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, as a tenure-track assistant professor of higher education in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy. He graduated this month with a PhD in Educational Policy and Evaluation from Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University.
Whether you’re going camping in the Superstition Mountains for the weekend or spending two months in the Himalayas, you’re going to need some basic skills: pitching a tent, cooking on a tiny stove and layering your clothes to suit the weather.
Joey LaNeve teaches those skills at Arizona State University in a class called Introduction to Outdoor Recreation.
Editor's note: This story is part of a series of profiles of outstanding spring 2020 graduates.
For Arizona State University Police Chief Michael Thompson, the fifth's time the charm: This May will be his fifth time in cap and gown.
The joys of gardening: head in the sun, hands in the dirt, something living where nothing lived before, and finally the crunch and snap and taste of what you and nature have created together. Indeed one of life’s pleasures, and one worth learning and teaching.
But how do you teach it online? It’s not exactly calculus or ancient Roman history.
One Arizona State University instructor has cracked that problem, and it’s not only successful — it’s turning out to have some advantages no one expected.
Standing shoulder-to-shoulder with medical researchers in the efforts to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus, social scientists are taking the pulse of society and examining underlying conditions now magnified by the pandemic. The crisis, Arizona State University sociologists say, is shining a light on the cracks of human society that need to be addressed.
One of the most challenging parts of developing a PBELL lesson plan is where to find inspiration. You are aware by now that a PBELL lesson starts with a meaningful problem (See “A tricky part of PBELL” if you need a refresher on the topic). Inspiration for a meaningful problem can come from many places; your curriculum guide, state or national standards, or problems in and around your classroom.
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Editor's note: This story originally appeared in the summer 2020 issue of ASU Thrive magazine.
Written by Carole G. Basile, the dean of ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, which is partnering with Arizona schools and other organizations to develop the Next Education Workforce. Find more of her writing on the future of education on her blog, The Next Normal: Principled provocations in education.
Wendy Peia Oakes has been an assistant professor at Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University since 2012. Her research and teaching continue a mission she undertook nearly 30 years and three degrees ago as a middle school classroom teacher in College Park, Maryland: improving educational access and outcomes for young children with emotional and behavioral disorders.
Mari Koerner, Alice Wiley Snell Professor of Education