Arizona State University Professor Geoffrey D. Borman has great empathy for middle schoolers.
He knows how painful the transition can be when elementary students have to make the jump to junior high school. The stresses of navigating grades, mental well-being, burgeoning sexuality and new social structures often causes anxiety and negative academic outcomes.
However, his work aims to ease that stress and offer guidance that will make students' lives more manageable.
iA little over two years ago, Punya Mishra, professor and associate dean of scholarship and innovation, gave his students an assignment in his class, Education by Design. An intimate group of seven graduate students took on the project in full swing.
A year later that assignment lives on as the website, Talking about design.
Throughout his career, Neil Giuliano, an alumnus of The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University, has worn many hats.
From working at ASU's Alumni Association and serving as the mayor of Tempe, Arizona, to serving as the president and CEO of three different nonprofit organizations, Giuliano has gained invaluable experience and a unique set of skills.
The annual Cathy Sanchez-Cañez Memorial Lecture Series was hosted by Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College throughout October. Three lectures focused on dyslexia, and featured Nancy Mather, Professor Emerita of disability and psychoeducational studies at the University of Arizona. Mather is author or co-author of many books and articles, including “Essentials of Dyslexia Assessment and Intervention” with Barbara Wendling (2011).
Twice a month, Arizona school and system leaders gather for rapid-fire crowdsourcing of solutions to immediate problems.
What’s the key to unlocking remote student engagement? Someone has a resource for that.
Can anyone share the pros and cons of different hybrid learning structures? Principals, chief academic officers and lead teachers are all here, ready to weigh in.
Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College Professor, Pinnacle West Presidential Chair and Creativity Advisor for the LEGO Foundation Ronald A. Beghetto chatted — over Zoom — with Adidas about nurturing a creative identity in both children and adults through sport and play.
Beghetto shares his insights and thoughts on how parents, educators and team leaders can fuel creativity — no matter the age.
Like most things this year, the Mastercard Foundation Scholars reception looked a little different. This year’s theme, Resilience in Action, was nothing less than fitting.
Over Zoom, 47 scholars shared their very personal projects that they worked on over the summer. Overall, nearly 200 people, from multiple continents, joined the event.
Teaching Trump: A frame analysis of educators’ responses to ‘the Trump effect’ in American schools
By: Reid Jewett Smith, Boston College
Vanessa Arredondo (BAE Elementary Education, Bilingual Education, ’14; MEd Curriculum and Instruction, ’16) was named Arizona Rural Schools Association Teacher of the Year for 2020.
Adding to her list of accomplishments, Arredondo is a first-generation college graduate. She came to the United States in third grade. “Like many of the students I teach, I had to learn English while adjusting to a new culture and living with family members,” she says.
Over the next five years, Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College will work with Morocco’s Ministry of Education, universities within the kingdom and teacher training institutions, with the aid of experienced technical assistance and private sector agencies, to form the Higher Education Partnership–Morocco. Funding is provided by USAID.