Home / News & Events / New U.S. Partnership Set to Transform Teacher Education in Zambia LUSAKA — The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) officially announced its Transforming Teacher Education project today in a hybrid in-person and online virtual event at the University of Zambia (UNZA). The Learning Systems Institute (LSI) at Florida State University (FSU) will implement the five-year, $15 million project (K300 million), in partnership with School-to-School International and the UNZA School of Education. The project will include 12 Zambian universities and colleges of education around the country to improve the training of primary grade teachers in early grade literacy. “By enriching pre-service teacher education, these investments will help ingrain effective primary literacy instruction practices in Zambia’s education system to benefit future generations of teachers and students,” said U.S. Embassy Chargé d’Affaires, a.i. David Young. “We are pleased that this partnership will support lecturers at all government Colleges of Education and universities that offer the primary teacher’s diploma. We are also excited to announce our partner for this project, Florida State University, a highly esteemed U.S. higher educational institution.”