FOX 10 Phoenix featured Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College’s new partnership with Mesa Public Schools, which provides free, small-group learning in after-school, virtual huddles for students in grades K–6.
Mina Johnson-Glenberg, a research scientist in the Arizona State University Department of Psychology and an affiliate faculty member at Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, created a web-based and augmented reality COVID-19 modeling simulation game to help college students learn more about the virus in an interesting and interactive way.
Atota Halkiyo (PhD Education Policy and Evaluation, ’22) has been awarded the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship Program. The fellowship is designed to enhance foreign language and area studies for future educators in the U.S. by supporting their dissertation research abroad.
Philanthropy, hidden strategy and collective resistance: A primer for concerned educators
By: Derek A. Houston, University of Oklahoma
Published in: Education Review, Sept. 2, 2020
Michelene Chi has been awarded the 2020 McGraw Prize in Learning Science Research. Created in 1988, the McGraw Prize celebrates innovation in education by recognizing outstanding individuals who have dedicated themselves to improving education and whose accomplishments are making a huge impact.
Up to 1,000 learners from Arizona’s largest public school district will huddle in virtual classrooms up to three days a week for free, small-group learning led by teams of future educators from Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College.
Jennifer Holm spoke for many Americans when she titled her 2011 fiction book for young readers, “Middle School is Worse than Meatloaf.”
Foundation Professor Geoffrey Borman
How can schools better serve learners and create more rewarding working environments and, ultimately, career paths for educators?
To tackle this question, ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College received nearly $700,000 from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help schools outside of Arizona adopt Next Education Workforce models. The investment allows MLFTC to design and deploy technical assistance to catalyze the transformation of at least five schools over three years.
Maria Teresa Tatto, Southwest Borderlands Professor of Comparative Education, was named a fellow of the American Educational Research Association last spring. New fellows are traditionally presented at AERA’s annual conference, but due to the cancellation of the event out of concerns over COVID-19, the in-person announcement couldn’t take place.
Sherman Dorn’s blog, The Pandemic and Cultural Scripts of School-Family Relationships was published by the Albert Shanker Institute this summer.