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MLFTC launches nanocourses for community educators
Communities are rich in experienced adults who have knowledge and expertise but lack the instructional skills of professional teachers. Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College is developing new nanocourses for community educators who can complement...
MLFTC hosts Next Education Workforce: Building the Next Normal
MLFTC will host Building the Next Normal, a two-day virtual convening about the Next Education Workforce in January. The event, open to the public, will focus on questions of equity, deeper and personalized learning, and how to build a more effective and sustainable...
New grant fuels adoption of redesigned school models
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...
Teaming in a pandemic
In 2018, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College placed its first students in new team-based professional experiences designed to address the workforce design problem at the heart of Arizona’s teacher shortage. In less than two years, more than 15 school districts have...
MLFTC partners with Brooklyn Lab Charter School to create back-to-school guide
Update: After conversations and design sessions with organizations including Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, Brooklyn Laboratory Charter Schools published a Success Coaching Playbook. The guide is a research-based framework that is available for educators and...
Nearly 700 educators came to MLFTC to learn Next Education Workforce models
“The world has changed,” Lisa Wyatt, senior program strategist, Next Education Workforce says. “We need to find new ways to meet the needs of all learners in a 21st-century context. We need to shape the jobs of educators so they are sustainable and fulfilling.”Wyatt,...
Next Education Workforce launches first resources on workforce models
What is the Next Education Workforce? Is your school ready for a new workforce model? Those questions and others are addressed in a new set of online pedagogical and professional resources from Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College. Developed...
Next Education Workforce brings distinguished speakers to MLFTC
UPDATE: We’ve made the decision to cancel our convening, The Next Education Workforce: From Thought to Action, on April 22-24 in Scottsdale. We are disappointed that we will not have the opportunity to meet in person to advance the work of the Next Education...
SPARK flies
On Sept. 9, students and representatives of the Kyrene School District in metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona; and Carole Basile, dean of Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University, officially cut the ribbon to dedicate SPARK School. SPARK is the result of...
In the news: The next educator workforce model
Read about and watch the video of Dean Carole Basile talking about MLFTC's team-teaching model.