STEM News Archive
The Florida Center for Research in STEM (FCR-STEM) was created by the Florida Legislature and competitively awarded to Florida State University in 2006. Housed inside the Learning Systems Institute (LSI), FCR-STEM is shaping the future of STEM education in Florida from the panhandle to the peninsula.
More than 20,000 Florida educators have completed the Florida Department of Education's Civics Seal of Excellence course, which is hosted on a portal developed by LSI and FCR-STEM and built on the CPALMS platform.
After 20 hours of virtual instruction, teachers from Florida’s panhandle counties are returning to their classrooms with cutting-edge skills in AI Prompt Engineering. The AIENGIN102 course, "Leveraging AI Prompt Engineering for Engineering Design Pedagogy," is part of FSU’s InSPIRE activity and was administered by staff at Florida State University’s Learning Systems Institute (LSI).
One of the impactful resources CPALMS offers is the Mathematics Formative Assessment System (MFAS). Teachers using MFAS ask students to perform mathematical tasks, explain their reasoning and justify their solutions.
The Florida Philanthropic Network (FPN) has awarded Florida State University’s Learning Systems Institute (LSI) a grant to implement the “Afterschool Math Success: Developing the Vision and Support” project. The grant will be implemented by LSI’s Florida Center for Research in STEM (FCR-STEM), with Carrie Meyers, LSI’s Director of STEM Outreach, serving as the Principal Investigator.
Our teams at LSI, FCR-STEM, and CPALMS were busy #InnovatingLearning this summer‼️ Take two minutes and check out everything we were up to.
Florida State's Learning Systems Institute (LSI) held its first professional learning course for K-5 Gulf Coast teachers from July 22 to 26. The teacher workshop, which is part of the workforce training and education component of FSU's Institute for Strategic Partnerships, Innovation, Research, and Education (InSPIRE), was conducted by the CPALMS staff from the Florida Center for Research in STEM.
Florida State University and Microsoft have joined forces on an Artificial Intelligence Educator industry certification and badge.
Florida State's Learning Systems Institute (LSI) held its first professional learning course for K-5 Gulf Coast teachers from July 22 to 26. The teacher workshop, which is part of the workforce training and education component of FSU's Institute for Strategic Partnerships, Innovation, Research, and Education (InSPIRE), was conducted by the CPALMS staff from the Florida Center for Research in STEM.
Florida State University’s Learning Systems Institute has been awarded a four-year, $4 million grant by The U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences. Robert Schoen, Ph.D., will serve as the principal investigator on the Supporting Teacher Enactment of the Probability and Statistics Standards (STEPSS)–Replication study
