by kaylasharp | Feb 24, 2016 | Alumni Notes, Giving, P.K. Yonge, Press Releases
Leslie Eggert Scales-Holloway (BAE ’68) was visibly moved as she reflected on her late father’s role as the beloved principal at P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School from 1947 to 1952. “He strongly believed in the connection between school and community,”...
by kaylasharp | Jan 19, 2016 | Headlines, P.K. Yonge, Press Releases, Research News
Inspired by the early impact of P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School’s new, state-of-the-art elementary wing, faculty researchers from PKY and the University of Florida are teaming up on pioneering studies into how school building design can influence and improve...
by kaylasharp | Nov 24, 2015 | Headlines, P.K. Yonge, Press Releases, Spotlights
Teachers bring back lessons from professional-development trips abroad Mayra Cordero joined a scientific mission to hunt for fossils in Panama. Macy Geiger and Angie Flavin traveled to Haiti to help Haitian teachers improve the way they teach their students....
by kaylasharp | Feb 18, 2013 | Headlines, Insider News, P.K. Yonge, Press Releases, Research News
Bolstered by a $5 million grant last year from the National Science Foundation, a collaborating faculty research team from P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School and UF’s College of Education has been studying how to transform middle school science curricula and...