The Bob Barker Foundation was established in May 2009 and now grants more than $1,000,000 annually to deserving programs that reduce recidivism. Our Vision is to reduce recidivism by seeing the lives of incarcerated individuals changed forever by serving God, family and community. Our mission is to develop and support programs that help incarcerated individuals successfully reenter society and stay out for life.
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The Bob Woodruff Foundation invests in programs that help our service members, veterans, their families and caregivers thrive.
We fund programs and services that serve the military and veteran community. We focus on programs that improve the health and wellbeing of service members, veterans, their families, and caregivers, and those that:
What role does strategic staffing play in the future of education? How can new approaches to teaching and learning — like those piloted by Arizona State University’s Next Education Workforce initiative, and others across the country — create better outcomes for learners and experiences for educators?
Generative artificial intelligence has the potential to influence how humans acquire and manage knowledge, and that has deep implications for future teachers, education leaders and education systems.
Last month in Palm Springs, California, leaders from the Center for Whole-Child Education (formerly known as Turnaround for Children), the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE), and the Next Education Workforce initiative — all components of Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College (MLFTC) — joined forces for the first time at a major conference, presenting at the Aurora Institute Symposium 2023.
Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College is hosting its 5th Annual Early Childhood Conference! This free, online conference is designed to bring together current MLFTC early childhood students, alumni, educators and community members to highlight new and exciting work that’s happening in the field of early childhood education (birth to age 8). Session tracks will focus on Literacy & Language, Teaching & Learning, Virtual Learning, Dis/ability & Inclusion, Wellness and Advocacy.
Jesse Fleming, assistant professor of special education at ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, is the lead author of a research paper published in the Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions:
Through a grant funded by USAID, ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College and the Moroccan government formed the Higher Education Partnership-Morocco, or HEP-M, in 2019.
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected students’ lives in multiple ways and it has deepened the divide in educational opportunity and achievement of Arizona students, especially students living in high poverty areas. Instructional loss led to unfinished learning, with assessments and related studies indicating that this has disproportionately impacted students from low-income backgrounds. Research has also illuminated that lost educational opportunities have affected student socio-emotional development since the pandemic through increased anxiety levels and higher levels of loneliness.