Mar 14, 2025
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,...
Mar 12, 2025
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...
Feb 20, 2025
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...
Dec 19, 2024
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,...
May 31, 2024
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...
May 10, 2024
[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...
