The UF Lastinger Center for Learning Early Learning Program Celebrates a Decade of Growth and Impacts
March 2025 marks a 10 year milestone of the UF Lastinger Center for Learning delivering professional learning programs that enhance early childhood education.In 2015, the Lastinger Center partnered with the Division of Early Learning, Early Learning Coalitions,...
Florida and the UF Lastinger Center for Learning Announce $500,000 Investment in High-Dosage Tutoring to Supercharge Learning Recovery Efforts
Florida was awarded one of seven States Leading Recovery grants from the national nonprofit Accelerate.In advance of the 2025-26 school year, Florida and the University of Florida Lastinger Center for Learning received a $500,000 grant to support ongoing efforts to...
FPL and New Worlds Reading Partner for Fun Family Literacy Event
Juno Beach, FL – On January 31, in honor of Celebrate Literacy Week, The UF Lastinger Center for Learning is honoring Florida Power and Light (FPL) at their Juno Beach headquarters as the inaugural New Worlds Reading Literacy Champion for FPL’s support of literacy and...
TECO and New Worlds Reading Partner for Fun Family Literacy Event
Riverview, FL – Peoples Gas and Tampa Electric (TECO) and the UF Lastinger Center for Learning’s New Worlds Reading Initiative hosted a Family Literacy Event on Thursday, Jan. 30, at Warren Hope Dawson Elementary School in observance of Celebrate Literacy...
Recommendations for Math Education in Florida Unveiled at Listening Tour Summit
On December 12, 2024, educators, advocates, community organizations, and business leaders gathered at the Lastinger Center for Learning’s Listening Tour Math Summit in Tampa. The event brought together insights and recommendations from more than a year’s work,...
Flamingo Early Learning renews partnership with Massachusetts educators
On July 1, the UF Lastinger Center for Learning renewed its four-year commitment to Massachusetts early learning professionals for six additional years.Alongside partners like UMass Boston and the Children’s Literacy Institute, the Early Childhood Support Organization...
Florida educators bolster their literacy skills with New Worlds Reading Teacher Professional Learning
Over 900 educators from 56 counties participated in professional learning sessions throughout the summer. Leaving with a 216-page, evidence-based Science of Reading handbook and enhanced literacy skills, Alachua County educators attended a New Worlds Reading Teacher...
The modality of mathematics lesson observations: comparing the results of live and video-based coding
Lastinger Center Mathematics Principal Zandra de Araujo and Mathematics Product Manager F. Paul Wonsavage collaborated with Samuel Otten and Amber G. Candela from the University of Missouri to examine the impact of different modalities of observation on key dimensions...
Lastinger Center renews early learning partnerships with FDOE
The UF Lastinger Center for Learning recently received a three-year contract with the Florida Department of Education (FDOE) to administer Flamingo Early Learning to early childhood providers across the state. Since 2015, the Center has partnered with the FDOE and...
Newly-Signed Bill Creates UF Lastinger Center for Learning Statute and Tutoring Program
[Tallahassee], Fla. – School districts, educators and students will receive extra support from the University of Florida to improve student outcomes in early learning, literacy and math thanks to House Bill 1361, which was signed into law Thursday. Funded by the...
2023-24 Impact Highlights
Read the 2023-24 Annual Impact Highlights to learn more about the Center’s recent efforts to advance the quality of education in early learning, literacy, mathematics and data science.