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
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Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College will host its Teacher Educators for Children with Behavior Disorders Conference virtually this year. The annual conference is the premier educational research conference for teacher educators working with children and youth with severe behavioral disorders. To allow for more participation, the 2020 conference will be offered each Tuesday in November, rather than on consecutive days. TECBD Tuesdays are Nov. 3, 10, 17 and 24.
Ashley D. Dominguez, an MLFTC research assistant and third-year student in the Learning, Literacies and Technologies PhD program, received a Ford Foundation Predoctoral Dissertation Fellowship. She is one of only 71 such fellows nationwide for 2020. Dominguez shared some of her thoughts about her research and the fellowship.
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.
In today’s world of online learning, making the process of thinking visible becomes challenging. In classrooms, teachers can show their work on the whiteboard and check students’ work in real time. Kelly Davis, MLFTC instructor, says this process is critical in teaching, especially in mathematics.
UNESCO — the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization — commissioned a series of background papers for its Futures of Education initiative and “Learning to Become,” a large-scale report on global education to be published later this year.