News and Updates: Marie Pierson Himes

Friday Institute Research Associate Marie Himes shares the background behind the creation of the Classroom Connection program and three ways its programming and extension activities can be used to review and extend literacy and mathematics learning this summer.

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.

The Friday Institute facilitated the creation and implementation of 192 literacy and math lessons for PreK-5 students as part of the At-Home Learning initiative for remote education in partnership with NCDPI and PBS North Carolina (PBS NC). Most of these lessons will air this year on PBS NC.

Friday Institute Research Associate Marie Himes from our New Literacies Collaborative shares her work on the at-home learning initiative to make quality PreK-5 math and literacy lessons more accessible.

From July 20-24, the New Literacies Collaborative at the Friday Institute, in partnership with the Longview Foundation, held the New Literacies Teacher Leader Institute (NLI) completely online for the first time.

Free high-quality online professional learning courses are now open for registration for the Fall 2020 session.

A multidisciplinary team of researchers at the Friday Institute and the NC State College of Education are examining how engagement in Project-Based Inquiry (PBI) Global, a collaborative global inquiry process, affects the development of learners’ science content knowledge and motivation.

Person Early College Innovation and Leadership students are learning how to ask compelling questions to solve real-world problems through a new partnership with Project-Based Inquiry (PBI) Global.