International Projects
October 16, 2024
Florida State’s Learning Systems Institute (LSI) is leading the USAID Tunoze Gusoma (Schools and Systems) activity in Rwanda. The activity supports the Ministry of Education in ensuring that the Kinyarwanda literacy environment is of high quality and inclusive.
October 8, 2024
The Learning Systems Institute (LSI) at Florida State University has received its first-ever grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
September 6, 2024
Our teams at LSI, FCR-STEM, and CPALMS were busy #InnovatingLearning this summer‼️ Take two minutes and check out everything we were up to.
September 4, 2024
LSI And The Jim Moran College of Entrepreneurship Join Forces On State Department Project To Promote Entrepreneurship Education In Armenia.
August 21, 2024
The Learning Systems Institute (LSI) at Florida State University has led the USAID-funded Strengthening Teacher Education and Practice (STEP) in Malawi Activity since 2022. Among the achievements during the third quarter of 2024, staff members from STEP supported teacher educators in planning and implementing 50 Participatory Action Research (PAR) projects, produced two videos on phonological awareness and the STEP Activity supported the development of a refined continuous professional development (CPD) implementation plan.
July 11, 2024
In the third quarter of 2024, the LSI team saw continued progress toward the project goals of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Tunoze Gusoma (Schools and Systems) Activity.
June 27, 2024
LSI Reports Encouraging Results From The Primary Teaching Residency Program In Rwanda. The project is showing encouraging results after just two terms. During term two, more than 80 teacher residents (TRs) in the program used targeted instructional strategies and received a performance rating of "meets" or "exceeds" expectations in all three observed lessons in the term. The TRs' knowledge, skills and attitudes in literacy, math and science continued to grow and the TRs continued increasing their engagement with online Canvas and in-person academic programming.
May 21, 2024
The Learning Systems Institute (LSI) at Florida State University, in conjunction with FHI 360, Save the Children and the Rwanda Basic Education Board (REB), have been working together since 2021 to enhance the pre-primary education system to develop, promote and improve students' emergent language and literacy skills, as well as strengthen the lower primary education system, school environment and classroom instruction to enhance students' literacy outcomes.
May 21, 2024
Dr. Adrienne Barnes-Story, a Research Specialist at the Learning Systems Institute, has been awarded a 2024 SEED Award from the Council on Research and Creativity. Work on the project titled “Large Class Pedagogy in Low-Income Contexts: Exploring Methods with Teachers in Malawi” will begin later this year.
May 8, 2024
In 2022, the Learning Systems Institute at Florida State University was chosen to lead a U.S. Agency for International Development sponsored project to improve teacher training in Malawi. Now in its third year, the STEP Malawi Activity is continuing to meet expectations and making successful strides to impact the entire primary education system.