When Li “Emily” Luo first stepped foot in the United States in 2012, she marched into the Anita Zucker Center on a mission. Her goal was to learn everything she could about the evidence-based social-emotional interventions for preschool children from experts in the...
The C.H.I.L.D Center, which stands for the Children’s Health, Imagination, Learning and Discovery Center, will serve as a child care and early education center located in the heart of the SWAG neighborhoods. Set to open for the beginning of the 2017-2018 school year,...
More than a dozen faculty, postdoctoral fellows and doctoral students affiliated with the UF Anita Zucker Center for Excellence in Early Childhood Studies recently contributed to a national conference focused on sharing innovative research for the benefit of children...
University of Florida Professor Patricia Snyder, director of the Anita Zucker Center for Excellence in Early Childhood Studies, has been named the new recipient of the Division for Early Childhood Award for Mentoring. Commonly known as DEC, the organization, a...
Preschool children with early learning challenges benefit from being a part of the class, but they need extra support through a teaching approach known as embedded instruction. Their teachers also are in need of support to employ the approach as intended. Patricia...
For Patricia Snyder, being named the first occupant of the David Lawrence Jr. Endowed Chair of Early Childhood Studies at the University of Florida was a natural fit. For pre-school children in Florida, Snyder’s selection to the $1.5 million teaching and research post...
Patricia Snyder, a professor of special education and early childhood studies at the University of Florida, is serving in a leadership role for the 2015 Institute of Education Sciences Principal Investigators Meeting in Washington, D.C. The IES is the statistics,...