2026-2029 Strategic Plan

External Strategic Imperatives

To deepen our statewide impact, our strategic imperatives guide the systems, insights and innovation required to strengthen educational outcomes.

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Elevate the Center’s Capacity to Manage Large-Scale, Data-Driven Operations

Build within Gold-Standard UF Data Enterprise Infrastructure

  • Align with University standards for data security and governance
  • Migrate to data management platform housed within UFIT enterprise system
  • Implement robust data intelligence system to manage, govern, and find trusted data
  • Employ the processing capacity of the UF HiPerGator supercomputer for data analysis
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Enhance Organizational Capacity for Large Scale Data Governance, Operations & Funding

  • Launch Data Stewardship Committee comprised of internal academic stakeholders
  • Engage in statewide Listening Tour and produce landscape analysis of state and local data systems
  • Refine data architecture and infrastructure
  • Prioritize professional development for Lastinger Center associates that enhances professional capacity, academic expertise, and data literacy
  • Cultivate and steward long-term, sustainable funding sources
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Leverage Integrated Data Systems to Generate Practical Insight
& Rigorous Research

Integrate Data to Inform Teaching & Decision-Making

  • Establish clear data-sharing and privacy standards and protocols
  • Launch data integration plan and visualizations
  • Engage stakeholders in decision theaters and strategic partnerships
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Build the Center’s Research Agenda & Capacity for Program Enhancement & Academic Publication

  • Establish the Center’s academic research agenda
  • Bolster the Center’s capacity for data-informed program and product development
  • Establish strategy for academic publication and dissemination of findings
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Translate Insights & Research into Program & Product
Development & Delivery

Program, Product & Process Innovation & Revitalization

  • Modernize program and product development by integrating emerging technologies (including AI)
  • Accelerate program and product development through process improvement
  • Re-engineer Center offerings to reflect technological advances and stakeholder needs
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Strengthen & Expand the Center’s Programs & Product Lines

  • Expand the Early Childhood, Literacy and Math Micro-Credential systems
  • Explore viability and pilot an Emergent Literacy Curriculum and a PreK-5 Number Sense Toolkit
  • Strengthen, expand, and scale high impact programs through the use of integrated data and continuous evaluation cycles
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Amplify Awareness & Engagement with Center Offerings

  • Strengthen the Center’s approach to recruitment
  • Cultivate strategic partnerships to support program recruitment
  • Define goals and refine recruitment strategies for Center products, programs and initiatives
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