During the COVID-19 pandemic, many working parents had to transform themselves into teachers overnight, structuring their children’s school day, providing tech support, helping with homework and motivation. Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College is home to some of the country’s leading education experts on the intellectual and socioemotional growth and needs of K–12 students. The principal investigators raise the question: How can we connect a parent’s need to know how to help their child with the expertise of MLFTC?
The state of Arizona’s 2010 adoption of the Arizona College and Career Readiness Standards, and their subsequent implementation, revealed concerns, particularly in the subject area of mathematics: Teachers would require professional development to address the new standards in their classrooms, and administrators would need instruction in how teachers should be evaluated according to those standards.