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Amanda Tazaz is a Senior Research Associate at the Learning Systems Institute (LSI) at Florida State University. She has been with LSI since January of 2013. Previously she served as a graduate assistant at LSI from October of 2011. Dr. Tazaz earned her Ph. D. in Biogeochemical Oceanography from Florida State University in 2013, and is currently pursuing a Masters in Applied Economics (2018). She holds bachelor's degrees in both Economics and Marine Biology.
Dr. Adrienne Barnes-Story is a Literacy and Pedagogy Specialist with the Learning Systems Institute at Florida State University. She has more than 20 years of experience in both formal and non-formal education environments, education research in traditional American schools, and international education and development. Dr.
Over the past three years, a unique collaboration between the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Nigeria’s Bayero University in Kano (BUK), and Florida State University (FSU) in the United States has helped Africa’s most populous country strengthen its ability to teach early grade reading, the foundation of lifelong learning.
The Learning Systems Institute (LSI) at Florida State University will lead a five-year, $15 million project sponsored by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to improve pre-service teacher training in Zambia.
Last year, students and teachers in Florida and across the nation were asked to do a lot when remote learning forced them out of the physical classroom.
That didn’t stop educators from pushing forward to learn new ways to best teach traditional subjects like math to their students, whether they were in person or on Zoom. And FSU’s Learning Systems Institute (LSI) was there to help.
