Next Education Workforce

What is the Next Education Workforce?

Episode Summary

Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College is designing the Next Education Workforce. What does that mean? Host Brent Maddin shares how MLFTC is working with schools and other partners to 1) provide all students with deeper and personalized learning by building teams of educators with distributed expertise and 2) empower educators by developing new opportunities for role-based specialization and advancement. He also invites you to join us at our January 2021 convening, Building the Next Normal.

Episode Notes

“What if we’ve got it all wrong? What if we don’t have a teacher shortage problem but instead a workforce design problem?” In this first podcast of the season, Brent Maddin, Executive Director of the Next Education Workforce Initiative at ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, defines what we mean by “Next Education Workforce,” shares how MLFTC is partnering with schools and districts, and invites you to join him at Building the Next Normal, the January 2021 convening hosted by Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College. 

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