2025

LSI staff featured in February's FSU Faculty and Staff Briefs

More than 20,000 Florida educators have completed the Florida Department of Education's Civics Seal of Excellence course, which is hosted on a portal developed by LSI and FCR-STEM and built on the CPALMS platform.

After two weeks to submit proposals and an evaluation process, Dr. Celia Reddick, Julie Twomey and Dr. Brenda Wawire were selected for funding for their proposal “Strengthening school experiences for refugee young people, families, and their teachers in Tallahassee.”

The Learning Systems Institute at Florida State University was honored with the Multilingual Education Leadership Award at a ceremony in Nigeria this morning. The University of Maiduguri Language Centre presented the award in collaboration with UNICEF.

The Learning Systems Institute (LSI) at Florida State University has been nominated for the Multilingual Education Leadership Award by the University of Maiduguri Language Centre in Nigeria. The award will be presented in collaboration with UNICEF.

The photo exhibition Ukraine: War and Resistance is a traveling project by Fulbright Ukraine & Institute of International Education (IIE) Kyiv Office, in partnership with various co-organizers in the U.S. and Europe. The authors of the photographs are almost all Fulbright Alumni who are either from Ukraine, or American Fulbrighters to Ukraine who have lived and worked for several years or more within the country.

After 20 hours of virtual instruction, teachers from Florida’s panhandle counties are returning to their classrooms with cutting-edge skills in AI Prompt Engineering. The AIENGIN102 course, "Leveraging AI Prompt Engineering for Engineering Design Pedagogy," is part of FSU’s InSPIRE activity and was administered by staff at Florida State University’s Learning Systems Institute (LSI).

Oleksandra Matviichuk, one of the most prominent human rights defenders in Ukraine and head of the Center for Civil Liberties (CCL), will be presenting at Florida State University. CCL is the first Ukrainian organization to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, which it won in 2022. 

One of the impactful resources CPALMS offers is the Mathematics Formative Assessment System (MFAS). Teachers using MFAS ask students to perform mathematical tasks, explain their reasoning and justify their solutions.

In 2022, Dr. Michelle Aguilar-Ong came to Tallahassee from the Philippines to participate in the Community College Administrators Program (CCAP) led by the Learning Systems Institute (LSI). In 2024, she returned to Tallahassee and LSI as a visiting Fulbright Scholar.