About Outreach

Outreach Programs

Outreach Programs are the vehicle through which we share our analyses, outcomes, and action plans with teachers and educational leaders at large. Events are offered throughout the school year and during the summer. Research in Action, consultancies, and spring/summer institutes offer teachers and educational leaders the opportunity to share in and contribute to our work on behalf of all of Florida’s students. As a public school whose student community reflects the ethnic and socio-economic demographics of the state of Florida, we are uniquely positioned to partner with schools in the collective effort to meet the needs of today’s and tomorrow’s students. We walk in the footsteps of public school teachers in the state of Florida and innovate within, and in spite of, the constraints imposed on public schools today.

Vision

Our vision is to improve the effectiveness of our nation’s schools by developing and disseminating models of teaching and learning that inspire teachers and enhance students’ opportunities post-high school.

Learning from Each Other

Each year, we welcome educators and school leaders from around the state, the nation, and the world into our classrooms. Working with our dedicated faculty, our guests participate in teacher-to-teacher mini-workshops, debrief observations, and develop action plans to take back to their schools and classrooms. Our guests, without fail, leave us with wisdom from their contexts, provide food for thought, and inspire us to continue to work for a better educational future for all students.

Since its establishment in 1934, P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School’s outreach mission has been rooted in a mandate to design and test strategies for improving educational and social-emotional outcomes for all students.

Outreach programs at P.K. Yonge inspire educators to ask questions, seek, and develop research-based programs, interventions, and approaches to teaching and learning in an effort to serve the youth in their communities.

Training Partnerships

P.K. Yonge partners with U.S. News & World Report’s top-ranked University of Florida College of Education to serve as a laboratory for preparing tomorrow’s educators. As a state and national leader, immersive, applied learning opportunities serve as a signature experience for participating UF students. Future educators are prepared to support the success of learners, address learning differences, and apply contemporary, technology-supported, inquiry-driven STEM and critical literacy teaching practices.

School Psychology

Semester and year-long school-based experiences are to prepare future school psychologists as district leaders in multi-tiered systems of support and to respond to growing mental health needs.

Counselors-in-Residence

Semester and year-long counselor-in-residence experiences are to prepare future school counselors for K-12 mental health support needs as well as academic advisement, bullying prevention/intervention, and counseling curriculum leadership.

Secondary Teacher Preparation Residencies

Extended field placement in mentoring teachers’ classrooms are dedicated to preparing future 6–12 teachers who understand and can respond to learner variability, implement mastery-based education, and effectively use technology to support learning.

Elementary Year-Long Internships

These internships are devoted to mentoring and partnering to support young learners in an inclusive, mastery-based, inquiry-driven, collaborative learning environment that weaves support for social-emotional learning throughout the school day.

Summer Adventures in Literacy

This program complements a six-credit summer course in UF Special Education by providing a three-week, half-day field experience devoted to applying research-based, targeted instructional support for K–3 struggling readers and students with dyslexia.

UF TEACH Field Experience

This program provides classroom-based teaching experiences devoted to project/problem-based learning focused on STEM.

Research Practicum

We partner with advanced education graduate students to provide field-based research experiences to help inform a school transformation effort.

Research Newsletters

This program provides opportunities for College of Education students to write and publish education-related articles and newsletters. Read the Fall 2022 Newsletter written by COE students.

Nonprofit Partnerships

Center for the Collaborative Classroom

Since 2011, P.K. Yonge and CCC have been investigating effective approaches to professional learning that result in high-quality, research-based literacy instruction while supporting students’ social and emotional growth and development. P.K. Yonge serves as a model/demonstration and training site for educators interested in CCC curriculums and professional learning approaches.

Great Schools Partnership

Since 2016, P.K. Yonge has been consulting with GSP to design, implement, and test a personalized, mastery-based education system that will graduate every student as college- and career-ready.

Florida College Board Partnership

Since 2018, P.K. Yonge has collaborated with the College Board partnership to design and test a K-12 system that increases the number and diversity of graduates qualifying for a Florida Bright Futures Scholarship.

Northeast Florida Educational Consortium

Since 2001, P.K. Yonge has partnered with NEFEC to help design and implement systems approaches to school improvement including the Florida Reading Initiative, Research in Action, U-FUTuRES, RtI/Multi-tiered Systems of Support, technology integration, Standards-Based Grading, and progress monitoring systems to achieve 100% college- and career-readiness for every P.K. Yonge graduate by 2025.

River Phoenix Center for Peace Building & Restorative Practices

Since 2018, P.K. Yonge’s principal has partnered with the Phoenix Center to implement restorative practices to strengthen student-teacher-administrator relationships and the learning culture.