Oct. 6, 2021

Research Day

Here’s our latest research poster submitted for University of Missouri’s College of Education & Human Development’s annual Research Day: Click here for the PDF version of the poster.

Jan. 22, 2021

Summer 2020 PD

Professional Development in the time of COVID-19 As with most things in the unique year of 2020, our LS&L4AL program professional development (PD) did not occur as planned.  However, 2020 in turn offered a rare opportunity to provide a program tailored to the needs of teachers facing odds heretofore uncharted.  I think we were able to adapt and provide perhaps an even better version of PD to be applied in both virtual and face to face classrooms. Here’s how it happened. Recruiting for the third cohort began in fall 2019. As soon as announcements…

Nov. 15, 2019

Meet the Authors

Meet the authors of "Flight of the Bumblebee" and "Earth and Human Body Systems"

Nov. 15, 2019

Peer Teachers

Our current peer teachers started as Cohort 1 participants in the program pilot year, and now act as advisors and mentors to the current Cohort 2 participants.  LORI PINKSTON, Kirksville School District I became interested in the Linking Science & Literacy for All Learners program when the curriculum director of my district forwarded to me the email seeking applicants. I had recently transferred from an elementary position where I had been teaching gifted students in grades K-5. My curriculum director knew of my interest in science as well as my intention of integrating content from other subject areas into…

Nov. 12, 2019

Summer 2019 PD

Heba Zakaryia Abdelnaby, originally from Gaza-Palestine, is a Fulbright graduate student in the Department of Special Education, College of Education, University of Missouri

Dec. 10, 2018

Summer 2018 PD

The first Linking Science & Literacy for All Learners professional development workshop convened in July 2018, the culmination of literally thousands of hours of planning and multidisciplinary team work.