Research
As a top-tier college of education at a Research I university, Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College is bringing its research capabilities to bear on the work of the Next Education Workforce.
Research agenda
ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College works with schools in multiple school districts to implement Next Education Workforce models. While the specific shape of these models varies according to those schools’ particular needs, the defining characteristic of Next Education Workforce models is how they bring together teams of educators with distributed expertise in order to deepen and personalize learning for students. They also seek to empower educators by developing new opportunities for role-based specialization and advancement.
Now, with its K–12 school partners, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College has developed a research agenda in order to generate evidence-based knowledge about the relationships between Next Education Workforce models and outcomes for both learners and educators.
Peer-reviewed articles and chapters
Several faculty members and doctoral students have published peer-reviewed articles and book chapters about their work researching Next Education Workforce models. These articles and chapters include:
- “Educational Change by Design: Creating a School of the Future” – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership
- “SPARK-ing innovation: a model for elementary classrooms as COVID-19 unfolds” – Journal of Professional Capital and Community
- “Rethinking School–University Partnerships” – Book chapter in A New Way Forward
Presentations
In our effort to challenge long-held assumptions in education by building teams of educators with distributed expertise, we have given a variety of presentations on Next Education Workforce models, providing information on:
- The transition from traditional staffing models to Next Education Workforce models
- Ways to increase the effectiveness and retention of educators
- Students’ academic development, social-emotional growth and ability to develop rich social networks and diverse relationships with peers and adults
Sponsored projects
Transforming the education profession and workplace
Next Education Workforce models in five schools in California or Texas are supported with a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grant.
Originating Sponsor: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Designing a New Educator Workforce
Online resources and national convenings made possible by a grant from the Walton Family Foundation will support innovation in human capital structures.
Originating Sponsor: Walton Family Foundation
Empowering school districts to explore agile staffing models
Administrators need tools and data that show there are better ways to deploy teachers.
Originating Sponsor: Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation
Higher Education Partnership–Morocco
A $5M USAID-funded grant supports a collaboration to create a comprehensive, 21st-century curriculum for primary grade teacher education.
Direct Sponsor: U.S. Agency for International Development
Teacher candidate affordances and perceptions of efficacy in collectively-taught elementary and typical student teaching settings
MLFTC researchers and district partners are studying how teachers’ view of their role affects workforce longevity
Originating Sponsor: Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College
Teacher Candidate Pilot Documentation
A grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is funding open-access resources to document the deployment of team-based teacher residencies.
Originating Sponsor: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Partner with us
MLFTC is seeking research partners. If you are interested in partnering with us, email edworkforce@asu.edu.