Six Area Centers for Educational Enhancement Provide Services Throughout Florida

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Six Area Centers for Educational Enhancement
Provide Services Throughout Florida
Supporting Student Achievement and Academic
Excellence through a Seamless K-20 Collaboration
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ACEEState-Wide Mission
to build and sustain the capacity of schools
and school districts in support of curriculum
reform and improved instructional practice
designed to enhance student achievement of
Floridas Sunshine State Standards.
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ACEEs Evolve

• Awareness level presentations and introductory
  meetings
• Establish maintain direct relationships with
  educators
• Leadership for educational issues
• Results-driven professional development and
  follow-up
• Capacity building and focused projects with
  schools
• Integral element of Floridas educational
  statewide delivery system

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ACEE Services

• Professional Development and Technical Assistance
• Communication and Coordination
• Statewide Dissemination of Programs

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Professional Development Technical Assistance

• Workshops
• Institutes
• Seminars
• Study/Focus Groups
• Modeling
• Mentoring

• Problem Solving
• Decision-Making
• Researching
• Consulting
• Coaching
• Advising

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Communication and Coordination

• Collaborating with schools and districts to
  improve overall student learning performance
• Bridging communication among educational groups
• Serving as an important link in the education
  information network

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Statewide Dissemination of Programs

• FloridaLeaders.net
• (Bill Melinda Gates Foundation)
• Mathematics and Science Professional Development
  Project (MSPD)

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ACEEs Offer A Unique Perspective.

• 5 years working with Department of Education,
  public schools and postsecondary institutions
• We have experience from a different view

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ACEEs Emphasize System-Wide Implementation

• Sunshine State Standards
• Goal 3 Standards
• Florida Curriculum Frameworks

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Goal 3 Standards Assessed by FCAT

• Florida students are
• Information Managers
• Effective Communicators
• Numeric Problem Solvers
• Critical Creative Thinkers

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ACEEs Build Capacity for School Improvement

• Needs assessment
• Research-based and data-driven approaches
• Support for high need schools

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ACEEs Build Capacity for School Improvement

• Support for instructional leaders
• Comprehensive professional development that
  enhances educators capacity to maximize learning
• Alignment of curriculum and assessment with
  instruction of SSS and Goal 3 Standards

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ACEEs Build Capacity for School Improvement

• Communication/ collaboration with partnering
  agencies and institutions
• Technology applications
• Facilitating educational agencies along a
  continuum for school reform

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What Makes ACEEs Unique?

• Serve as a regional infrastructure to disseminate
  programs and information for the Florida
  Department of Education
• Focus on State Education Goal 3- Student
  Performance supporting Floridas System of School
  Improvement and Accountability
• Promote comprehensive, system-wide school
  improvement through partnering with local
  districts and agencies

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What Makes ACEEs Unique?

• Address the unique needs of districts and schools
  in each region through tailoring technical
  services
• Facilitate K-20 communication with two-way
  dissemination of information supporting a
  seamless system for education in Florida

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ACEEs Promote Support Floridas System Of
School Improvement Accountability1996-2001

• 310,000 total ACEE contacts
• Increase in A and B schools 21 to
  41
• Decrease in D and F Schools 28 to 12

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Accomplish the Impossible!

• Can we walk through a piece of paper?

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ACEE Websites

• I paec.org/pacee and ibinder.uwf.edu\pacee
• II nefec.org\acee\ and floridahec2.org
• III acee3.ucf.edu/
• IV coedu.usf.edu/sacee
• V fau.edu/acee
• VI dade.k12.fl.us/edu/acee/acee.htm