Student Spotlight: Siwei Qin
After teaching for nearly a year, Siwei Qin discovered a new passion: helping young children to learn. Searching for a way to hone her skills, she joined the Anita Zucker Center with hopes of becoming a better educator and promoting inclusivity in early childhood...
Professor’s Trip to Zambia Sparks Conversations about Global Collaboration
Recently, Brian Reichow, associate professor of special education and early childhood studies with the Anita Zucker Center, along with Center partner and pediatrician Marylou Behnke, professor emerita of medicine, visited Zambia to continue their work surrounding caregivers who have children with special needs.
Student Spotlight: Boram Song
Boram Song has always had a way with words — and teaching the English language to young children. In fact, for nearly 10 years, she served as an educator; instructing them and searching for evidence-based curricula to support them. Eventually, this search led to a...
Doctoral Student Uses Skills From Center To Measure Bicycle Shop Impact
When Jamie Aulton is not taking classes in early childhood theory and research or helping Dr. Maureen Conroy with the Center’s BEST in CLASS Web project, she is using the analytical skills and ideas she has learned at the Center to impact the Gainesville community at...
Anita Zucker Center Leads Early Childhood Trainings in Zambia
After three days of learning in the Zambian town of Kalomo, a group of health and education professionals, parents, caregivers and village representatives were eager to give special care to local children with developmental delays or disabilities. In June, the Anita...
Student Spotlight: JinHee Hur
Meet JinHee Hur, a third-year doctoral student in the School of Special Education, School Psychology, and Early Childhood Studies. Originally from South Korea, JinHee’s interests lie in thinking about how teachers and parents can support children’s early literacy and...
Center Members Collaborate with FSU and the Early Steps State Office on Professional Development for Providers
Healthy social-emotional development in early childhood has lasting benefits for young children’s future development and learning, especially for young children who have or are at risk for developmental delays. Supporting families and caregivers with tools for...
New Zealand Trip Creates Lasting Cross-Cultural Connections for Center
Twenty-two hours. Eight-thousand, one hundred miles. University of Florida Professor and director of the Anita Zucker Center, Dr. Patricia Snyder, has gone global — again. This past month, she attended the World Forum on Early Care and Education, an Early Childhood...