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...
Join New Worlds Reading at the 2024 Book Bash in Jacksonville on May 10th
Jacksonville families of VPK– 5th grade students are invited to attend New Worlds Reading’s 2024 Book Bash on Friday, May 10, at the Jacksonville Public Library – Main Library. Families will join New Worlds Reading as they spotlight the third year of the program...
Is skill heterogeneity in kindergarten classrooms associated with the persistence of pre-K gains? Evidence from the IES early learning network
Lastinger Center Senior Manager of Research and Evaluation Mary Bratsch-Hines worked with collaborators Michael Little, Kevin C. Bastian, Lora Cohen-Vogel, Peg Burchinal, and Ellen Peisner-Feinberg to examine the convergence of Pre-K attending and non-Pre-K attending...
Florida’s New Worlds Reading program off to a good start
The program created in 2021 has already helped hundreds of thousands of Florida students who were struggling with reading. As a classroom teacher nearly 20 years ago, it was unfathomable to think that children across Florida could get free books and activities...
Lastinger Center hosts 45th Annual International Conference
Researchers and professionals from around the globe gathered for the 45th annual International Academy for Research in Learning Disabilities (IARLD) conference in Gainesville, FL from October 25 through 27, 2023, to discuss research and practice that supports students...
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.