April/May Faculty & Staff Briefs

SERVICE

Rabieh Razzouk, MBA (Learning Systems Institute) led a multi-year partnership with the Learning System Institute and the Education Development Center on the Higher Education Capacity Development program with Lebanon, which recently concluded.

Stephane Zuilkowski, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) led an ELA assessment writing training for Florida educators for the FAST standardized assessments.

Vilma Fuentes, Ph.D. and Amber Wiest (Learning Systems Institute) traveled to South Africa as work continued on the Community College Administrator Program.

Carrie Meyers (Learning Systems Institute) led the first workshop for the “Afterschool Math Success: Developing the Vision and Support” project, which is designed to help out-of-school providers and parents foster math success and enjoyment among children in kindergarten through fifth grade.

Notable

Vilma Fuentes, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) led the Ukraine Task Force in hosting Dmytro Stepanskyi, a Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow at Emory University and the American Society for Microbiology Ambassador to Ukraine in a weeklong tour of campus as he visited FSU biologists, doctors and scientists.

Bylines

Stephanie Zuilkowski, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) coauthored the journal article “Books That Talk About My Dreams: Understanding Children’s Book Access, Preferences, Motivations, and Support at Home and in Nearby Environments in Rwanda” published by the International Literacy Association.

Brenda Wawire, Ph.D. (Learning Systems Institute) coauthored the book “Hujambo! A Standards-Based Approach to Introductory Kiswahili” published by the Kansas University Resource Language Center.