AI Classroom Tools
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K-12 Economics Teaching Resource Center
The Gus A. Stavros Center for Free Enterprise and Economic Education provides free professional development workshops for educators across all grade levels and subject areas. Workshop topics include Financial Literacy, Sustainability, Artificial Intelligence, Entrepreneurship and Innovative Mindset. Each session is aligned with Florida’s state standards, and participants receive high-quality instructional materials and resources to support effective classroom implementation.
Professional Learning and Teacher Development
From hands-on workshops and multi-day institutes to customized coaching and school-wide improvement partnerships, the David C. Anchin Center for the Advancement of Teaching has a broad portfolio of professional learning for educators. These programs focus on research-based instructional strategies, leadership development, data-driven decision making, literacy and math support, STEM innovation and continuous school improvement.
School-Community Partnership Hub
The USF Insitute for School-Community Partnerships provides a comprehensive suite of multi-tiered systems of support and problem-solving resources, including tiered problem-solving modules, tools for data-based decision making and libraries of assistive technologies to support students with disabilities.
School Mental Health Resources
The USF School Mental Health Collaborative provides mental health training and technical assistance guides for school leadership teams, as well as resources for families and caregivers.
Grow Through Reading
Launched from a USF-supported after-school pilot in St. Petersburg serving historically marginalized youth, Grow Through Reading has expanded into a national, free online literacy resource. Created by USF professors AnnMarie Gunn and Susan Bennett, this site provides research-based social-emotional literacy lessons for preschool through grade 2, pairing children’s books with guided dialogue and creative activities. Early studies showed the greatest gains among children with the lowest starting scores, with improvements in both vocabulary and social-emotional development.
TIM Tools: Technology Integration Matrix
The Florida Center for Instructional Technology provides professional learning, digital content, and technology integration evaluation services to schools and districts worldwide. Located in our college, it has been a leader in K-20 technology integration since 1982.
Play Studio
The Play Studio is a professional learning resource that helps early childhood educators practice the art of teaching through dramatic play. Through classroom videos and practical resources, it makes teachers’ pedagogical work in and around dramatic play visible, illustrating a repertoire of roles and strategies that support rich, purposeful play experiences. The Play Studio framework is grounded in the understanding that play is not separate from learning but rather a social and symbolic activity through which children develop new understandings and ways of thinking.
