Teaching during Covid-19 has been a challenge for educators across the country.
Ariel Anbar, President's Professor in the School Of Earth and Space Exploration and an MLFTC affiliate faculty member, co-authored a study that was named Outstanding Paper of the Year for 2020 by the Journal of Geoscience Education.
Beginning in fall 2021, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University will offer a Master of Science degree in Education Sciences on the Tempe campus. The new degree program equips educators with the knowledge and skills to conduct and use quantitative research in education. Those skills include designing scientifically valid research studies, measurement, data management, data mining, quantitative data analysis and practical research.
In the early 1970s, Steve Graham was a long-haired free-spirit hitchhiking across America, trying to find himself. All he needed to survive was a few bucks in his pocket, a jar of peanut butter and a loaf of bread.
Flash forward to 2021. The former hippie drifter is now a Regents Professor at Arizona State University.
When there’s no Yellow Brick Road
By: Gloria Ladson-Billings, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Published in: Education Review, Jan. 2021
For most teens, the break between semesters is a relaxed time of unstructured adventure. Driving around with friends. Meeting at the mall. Lounging by the pool.
While these past months were uncommon due to the COVID-19 pandemic, for a handful of students from the Gary K. Herberger Young Scholars Academy this break was always going to be out of the ordinary.
Cristóbal Rodríguez joins Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College as associate dean of equity, inclusion and community engagement. Rodriguez comes to us from Howard University where he held the position of director of graduate studies in the School of Education and associate professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies.
Ariel Anbar and Punya Mishra are the principal investigators for “The Future Substance of STEM Education,” a research project based at ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College. Anbar is a President’s Professor in ASU’s School of Earth and Space Exploration and School of Molecular Sciences, and an affiliate faculty member of MLFTC, where Mishra is associate dean of scholarship and innovation. Their National Science Foundation-funded research project brought together faculty members from universities from across the nation for a weeklong workshop in October.
Six online master’s degrees in education offered by Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College are among the top five in the nation in their specialty areas, according to the U.S. News & World Report 2021 Best Online Graduate Education Programs rankings.
At Riverview High School in Mesa, Arizona, teams of educators use technology to scale deeper and personalized learning for multi-age cohorts of students. Twenty minutes away, the 3rd-grade team at Stevenson Elementary School leverages inquiry learning approaches to ignite students’ curiosity and build their agency. Further south, a 10-person educator team at ASU Preparatory Academy–Polytechnic’s Spark Institute deepens and personalizes learning for 7th and 8th graders through problem-based approaches and collaborative learning structures.