July Faculty & Staff Briefs

NOTABLE

Celia Reddick, Ph.D., Julie Twomey, M.Ed., and Brenda Wawire, Ph.D. completed 36 interviews with refugees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Syria. Of those interviews, 27 were with refugee children and 9 were with their parents and other caregivers as part of their "Strengthening school experiences for refugee young people, families and their teachers in Tallahassee" project. Of those interviews, 27 were with refugee children and nine were with their parents and other caregivers.

Lakesia Dupree, Ph.D., Odalis Tavares, Ed.D., and Amanda Tazaz, Ph.D. spent two weeks working with educators in Hillsborough County on the Successful Start: Cognitively Guided Instruction year 2 program.

Amanda Tazaz, Ph.D. completed the second summer of her project “Bridging the Gap into the Geosciences” offering pre-college students an exciting opportunity to explore careers in geoscience through a dynamic summer camp at the Boys and Girls Club of the Big Bend. More than 50 teens participated in the program.

Vilma Fuentes, Ph.D. traveled to Yerevan, Armenia to implement a project promoting STEM and Social Entrepreneurship through a collaboration between LSI, the Jim Moran College of Entrepreneurship, and the Armenian State University of Economics.

BYLINES

Stephanie Zuilkowski, Ph.D. and Adrienne Barnes-Story, Ph.D. co-authored “Pre-service teacher education – the linchpin for embedding sustainable, scalable change in education systems,” which was published by What Works Hub for Global Education.

CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS

Bhushan Dahal led and participated in the “Educational Conference on Enabling Innovations in Education Planning and Implementation,” hosted by Kathmandu Metropolitan City Office.