LSI’s Ramos-Mattoussi returns to Ethiopia to work on reading and writing initiative
Flavia Ramos-Mattoussi of the Learning Systems Institute returns to Addis Ababa this weekend to continue work with Ethiopia’s Ministry of Education on a far-reaching reading-and-writing program that will reach 15 million children in the African nation.
Dr. Dawit Mekonnen of the University of Addis
Ababa and FSU National Coordinator in
Ethiopia,Dr. Flavia Ramos-Mattoussi,
center, the principal investigator on
FSU’s element of the Read-TA project,
and Dr. Marion Fesmire of FSU Panama
City wear gowns and scarves given them
by their colleagues in Ethiopia, where
FSU has been working since 2013 on
an ambitious reading-and-writing
program.
Since 2013, Dr. Ramos-Mattoussi and LSI colleagues Dr. Marion Fesmire and Dr. Adrienne Barnes have worked with the Reading for Ethiopia’s Achievement Developed Project in Ethiopia. READ TA is a five-year project supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development and implemented by RTI International and its partners, including Florida State University.
While in Addis Ababa, Dr. Ramos-Mattoussi, a senior research associate at LSI, will guide a team of graphic designers to produce the final version of the module designed for teacher instruction, developed by the FSU/LSI team of Dr. Fesmire, Dr. Barnes, Dr. Shannon Hall-Mills and Dr. Dawit Mekonnen, a professor of education at the University of Addis Ababa and FSU’s National Coordinator on this project. The course-module has been piloted at 36 Colleges of Teacher Education in Ethiopia.
LSI faculty involved in the READ TA project have presented their work at international conferences.
Dr. Ramos-Mattoussi has been invited by the USAID Education Office in Washington to present LSI’s work in Ethiopia at the USAID’s panel on teacher education at the Comparative and International Education Conference (CIES) in Atlanta, GA on March 5-9.