Vice Dean, Teacher Preparation & Professor
Arizona State University
Nicole L. Thompson is a professor and vice dean of the division of teacher preparation in Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University. Her work focuses on how best to prepare teachers to educate P-12 students. With a commitment to equitable and inclusive practices, her work creates, pilots, and brings to scale new roles for educators and new organizational structures for schools and systems that can better serve both learners and educators. Thompson works to create a sustainable workforce of educators prepared to work as members of collaborative teams of qualified professionals with distributed expertise who can support deeper and personalized learning for all students. Her work has been funded by USAID, the Kern Foundation and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, among other sponsoring organizations. She currently serves as Principal Investigator on Higher Education Partnership–Morocco and co-PI on several other projects including Character Education in Systems of Teacher and Leader Preparation and Teacher Candidate Pilot Documentation.
Shifting From Preparing to Sustaining a Teacher Workforce
Friday, February 16, 2024
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM MST
Principles for Developing the Next Generation of Educators to Effect Positive Change
Saturday, February 17, 2024
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM MST
Accessible, Personalized, Transformative Pathways to Teacher Certification
Sunday, February 18, 2024
10:15 AM – 11:15 AM MST