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.
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.
Last year, students and teachers in Florida and across the nation were asked to do a lot when remote learning forced them out of the physical classroom.
That didn’t stop educators from pushing forward to learn new ways to best teach traditional subjects like math to their students, whether they were in person or on Zoom. And FSU’s Learning Systems Institute (LSI) was there to help.
Emma Pugh, at left, a mathematics coach at Westview K-8 School, and Ming Ziang, center, who teachers algebra at Frank H. Peterson Academies of Technology, learn how teachers can use 3-D printer in STEM classes. At right is Marisa Benz of FSU’s Florida Center for Research in Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics, which conducted professional development for Pugh and Ziang and dozens of other science and math teachers in Duval County.
