Research & Innovation

The Center for Gifted Education supports the needs of gifted and talented students and those with gifted potential. 

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The Reading Institute prepares future and current teachers to diagnose, assess, and address reading difficulties while providing individualized literacy support to children from local schools. Senior-level undergraduate and graduate students in our reading courses evaluate and tutor children under faculty guidance, gaining hands-on experience in assessing and teaching reading.

Reading Clinic

The Reading Clinic offers individualized reading tutoring for children in grades 2–5 during the fall, spring, and summer sessions. The clinic serves two purposes:

• Giving our students more experience assessing and teaching reading, especially for children who struggle with reading
• Providing a service to the community

Comprehensive Evaluation Program

Every spring semester, the Reading Institute offers a comprehensive reading evaluation followed by personalized tutoring. Evaluators are senior undergraduate and graduate students with a background in reading.

At the end of the program, parents and guardians can meet with their child's evaluator and receive a written report with findings and recommendations for home and the classroom.

Literacy Research and Resources

The Reading Institute is a setting for basic and applied literacy research and shares information on literacy research, instructional best practices, and technology for literacy. It houses:

• Instructional materials, media, and technology, including software for literacy instruction
• Children's literature and instructional resources
• Trade book catalogs for review
• Literacy assessment instruments
• A professional library

Contact the Reading Institute

For enrollment in the Reading Clinic or the Comprehensive Evaluation Program, contact the Reading Institute.

Maxim Doucet Hall, Room 104 · 337-482-5012 · readingcenter@louisiana.edu

The Center for Excellence in Education uses interdisciplinary scholarship to advance K-20 teaching and learning across the region, state, and nation. Its work focuses on:

• Research: An active interdisciplinary K-20 scholarship agenda. CEE pursues external funding, including from the U.S. Department of Education and the National Science Foundation; shares its research with K-20 audiences; and collaborates with faculty and practitioners across disciplines.
• Outreach and partnerships: Building pipelines of college graduates in STEM, teacher education, educational leadership, and other fields
• Advocacy: Informing local, state, and national K-20 policy and practice

CEE aims to be an interdisciplinary hub for collaboration that advances K-20 education across the region, state, and nation.

Region 4 STEM Network Center

Housed in CEE, the Region 4 STEM Network Center (R4SNC) is one of nine regional STEM Network Centers funded by the Louisiana Board of Regents through its LaSTEM initiative. Together, these centers work to improve access to STEM education, participation, and advancement across Louisiana.

R4SNC broadens access to science, technology, engineering, and math learning and promotes STEM economic development in Lafayette and the surrounding region. Its goals are to:

• Provide access
• Remove barriers
• Build networks

Four core values guide its work: respect, empowerment, collaboration, and opportunity.

R4SNC works with partners across schools, nonprofits, businesses, and the University to build a strong STEM culture in Region 4. 

Contact CEE

Maxim Doucet Hall, Room 110 · 337-482-1514

LITE Center, 537 Cajundome Blvd., Suite 132, Lafayette, LA 70506