The Achievement Center for Educators

Providing opportunities to connect and excel from admission to graduation

The College of Education Achievement Center for Educators supports educator development by providing opportunities beginning with admission all the way through graduation. With ACE students will learn through benchmark courses, prepare through essentials, and engage through touchstone events.

Touchstone Events

The Power of Effective Classroom Management with Carol Lorek

Friday, September 27th | 9:00 – 10:00 AM
Eastburn Education Center | Bldg. 27 | Room 190

A fast-paced, interactive workshop highlighting practical, creative, and effective classroom management tools. Come work with and learn from Carol Lorek who has decades of teaching experience in K-12, community college, and university classrooms.

No registration required

Technology Integration in Classrooms with Tony Vincent**
Presented by the Arizona K12 Center

Tuesday, October 15th | 12:00 – 2:30 PM
Eastburn Education Center | Bldg. 27 | Room 190

Turn a potentially boring lesson into a brilliant one! Make learning irresistible by hooking your students’ senses, connecting to background knowledge, telling stories, and building mysteries. Experience pixelated pictures, redacted text, research scrambles, locked content, customized Mad Libs, mystery maps, emoji prompts, and other inviting ways to captivate learners. Bring a computer so that you can fully participate as a student and as a teacher.

**Registration required (Deadline October 8th)

Resume Building for Educators

Friday, October 18th | 9:00 – 10:00 AM
Eastburn Education Center | Bldg. 27 | Room 200

Everyone needs a résumé to get a job. Do you have one? Have you started one? Whether you have one or not, come to this introductory look at how to build an outstanding résumé for educators. Covering all of the basics such as formats, fonts, what to include, what NOT to include, and more.

No registration required

Creating Engaging Learning Spaces**
Presented by the Arizona K12 Center

Wednesday, November 6th | 12:00 – 2:30 PM
Eastburn Education Center | Bldg. 27 | Room 190

Come learn ways to ignite engagement and heighten learning in your classroom. We will delineate the differences between engagement, management, and discipline while also helping you outline a plan that puts focused effort on student learning rather than student behavior. Leave feeling equip with some fresh strategies that will ignite both your own and your students’ creativity.

**Registration required (Deadline October 30th)