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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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…