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Former U.S. Education Secretary delivers keynote at Next Education Workforce Summit
MLFTC’s Next Education Workforce Summit highlighted ways for education leaders to explore new approaches to teaching and learning that improve outcomes for teachers and students. In February, MLFTC held the Next Education Workforce Summit 2022, which brought together...
Team-teaching model aims to make teaching sustainable
Like many states in the U.S., Arizona has experienced difficulty in filling teaching positions. Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College is working to address the issue, among others in education, with Next Education Workforce models. The team-based...
Experts call for a change in education
Over the last 10 years, U.S. teacher preparation programs have reported shrinking enrollment, according to CNN. The role and demands being placed on teachers have changed, in part due to the pandemic. Many educators are leaving teaching because of burnout or...
In the news: Team teaching benefits students and educators
In the past, efforts to combat Arizona’s teacher shortage have focused on recruitment and frankly, haven’t worked, Brent Maddin, executive director of the Next Education Workforce initiative, told KJZZ 91.5 FM, a public radio station in Phoenix, Ariz. The initiative...
MLFTC offers budgeting resources for school leaders developing Next Education Workforce models
Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College is offering a collection of resources to help schools develop Next Education Workforce models without taking on a slew of new costs.To build Next Education Workforce models, MLFTC works with schools and other...
Helping leaders support our youth
Karen Pittman, a sociologist, has spent the past 50 years working to bring research on how youth learn and develop, and how adults can support them, into policy and practice at the national, state and local levels. No small feat. As co-founder and senior fellow of the...
Opportunity culture offers teachers flexibility and support through team-based model
The country experienced a “hangover” from the last workforce-oriented push in education, which focused on teacher evaluation and within that, far too much on ridding schools of the least effective teachers, says Bryan Hassel, co-president of Public Impact, an...
New podcast: John B. King, Jr. on equity and the education workforce
“The thing that saved me was school. The consistency, the nurturing relationships, the engagement at school is the reason I’m alive today,” King says. He goes on to describe the challenges educators face and the lack of support that prevents teachers from achieving...
In the news: Strengthening deeper and more personalized learning for all children
The one-teacher, one-classroom model isn’t a sustainable method of education, Carole Basile, dean of ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College tells Arizona Horizon. “We are going to need fundamental, systemic change.” And, she says, MLFTC’s Next Education Workforce...
MLFTC works with Arizona’s largest school district to revamp human resources strategy
Arizona schools struggle to attract, retain and advance qualified, diverse and effective teachers and school leaders. Every year, the Arizona School Personnel Administrators Association releases a survey that underscores the human resources challenges faced by Arizona...