I began to work in international development by happenstance. I was asked to do some teacher training without knowing it would be in Ethiopia. When I completed that first training, I realized that education development work is where I belong.
The Florida Council of Teachers of Mathematics (FCTM) has named Florida State University professor and Learning Systems Institute (LSI) faculty member Robert Schoen, Ph.D., the Kenneth P. Kidd Mathematics Educator of the Year. The award was established in 1976 to recognize an individual’s outstanding contributions to mathematics education.
A Florida State University program to improve professional development for elementary school teachers and principals has already reached as many as 150,000 students in more than 200 Florida schools. The third and final year of the professional development portion of the “Foundations for Success” study was just completed last month.
Research Faculty I, Literacy, and Foreign and Second Language Specialist
Kate Schell is an Assistant in Research and a Literacy Specialist with the Learning Systems Institute. Kate has 10 years of experience working in international education development, supporting teacher capacity-building, and facilitating the development of culturally relevant learning materials for early-grade reading in local and indigenous languages. She has expertise in multilingual education and pedagogies for multilingualism and biliteracy. She has M.A. degrees in Linguistics from Florida State University and in Literacy Program Development from the University of Gloucestershire.
