2022
June 24, 2022
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.
June 22, 2022
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.
June 16, 2022
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.
May 26, 2022
This spring, the two fellows from Zambia residing at Florida State as part of the TTE Project are Handili Jimaima and Joshua Zulu. Both Jimaima and Zulu teach at Chalimbana University in Chongwe, Zambia. Since mid-January, they have been at FSU learning, observing and training so they can influence generations of teachers and students when they return home in June.
May 25, 2022
The Learning Systems Institute (LSI) at Florida State University has been awarded a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the amount of $1,498,140 to develop a school-based intervention for children with math anxiety using strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy.
May 5, 2022
Florida State University researchers are driving innovation and creating new forms of art while using their knowledge to contribute to Florida and beyond. The work being done by LSI is one of 10 ways FSU is changing the world.
April 19, 2022
We are pleased to have successfully presented our three-session panel re: UEEP. A copy of the chat is available below.
March 31, 2022
Florida State University and the Learning Systems Institute (LSI) continued its partnership with the USAID/Lebanon Higher Education Capacity Development (HECD) Program by welcoming a group of 19 university staff members from Lebanon to Tallahassee.
February 9, 2022
Florida State University’s Learning Systems Institute (LSI) will lead a $15.6 million project sponsored by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to improve teacher training in Malawi.