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Friday Institute for Educational Innovation Executive Director Hiller A. Spires, Ph.D., built a bridge connecting North Carolina and China that has allowed students and educators from both countries to develop cross-cultural understandings and innovative approaches to learning.

TIME’s 2020 Top Young Innovator, Gitanjali Rao, shares four tips for educators during our Next Generation Education webinar on how to make science more approachable and relevant for students.

On April 15, Dr. Hollylynne Lee and her Hub for Innovation and Research in Statistics Education (HIRiSE) team presented at their second American Statistical Association Teacher Meet-up Stats Chat.

NC State College of Education Professor and Friday Institute Senior Faculty Fellow Hollylynne Lee, Ph.D., is one of three finalists for the Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching.

Ray Zeisz, director of the Technology Infrastructure Lab at the Friday Institute, talks about broadband access for students in rural Eastern North Carolina and his work with Hyde County Schools to pilot a program of SpaceX’s Starlink internet service to improve access.

Hollylynne S. Lee, Ph.D., senior faculty fellow at the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation and professor of mathematics and statistics education in the NC State College of Education, has been selected as one of three finalists for Baylor University’s highly prestigious 2022 Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching.

As 2021 unfolds, reflection gives way to transformation.

RALEIGH, N.C. — The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation’s advisory board has gained three new members this month, who were appointed by Friday Institute Executive Director and Associate Dean with...