Title: Building Capacity at the School and District Level for FDLRS Programs
1Building Capacity at the School and District
Level for FDLRS Programs
Presented by FDLRS Action
2Agenda
- Introductions
- Brief history of our process
- Overview of our programs
- Successes and challenges
- Recommendations for building capacity
- Questions
3Action Demographics
- Serves Lake, Orange, Osceola, Seminole and Sumter
Counties - 31 increase in ESE students since 2003
- Over 63,000 ESE students in region
- 2,900 ESE teachers
- Center serves 2 and 4 growth districts in state
(Osceola and Lake)
4School Wide Projects at FDLRS Action
- Behavioral Leadership Teams Academy
- Write Track
- OPTIONS (Opportunities to Inspire and Nurture
Students) The Differentiated Classroom
5Indicators of Quality Professional Development
- Extended duration
- Collective participation of educators
- Focused on specific content and instructional
practices - Systematic and purposeful
- Infused with active learning
Source Mid-continent Research for Education and
Learning (McREL)
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7Central Florida Behavioral Initiative FDLRS
Action Resource Center
911
Classroom Management
School-wide Discipline
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9The Write Track
- Write systematically and developmentally
- Develop voice of the writer
- Learn craft and art of writing
- Better communicators through higher-level
vocabulary - Develop higher-level thinking through writing
10OPportunities To Inspire and Nurture Students
The Differentiated Classroom Grades 3-6 Sponsored
by FDLRS Action Resource Center
11Differentiation of Instruction is a teachers
response to learners needs
Guided by general
principles of differentiation, such as
clear learning goals
flexible grouping
ongoing assessment and adjustment
positive learning environment
respectful tasks
Teachers can differentiate
content
process
product
According to students
Readiness
Interest
Learning profile
Adapted from The Differentiated Classroom
Responding to the Needs of All Learners.
Tomlinson, ASCD, 1999
12The EqualizerA Planning Model for Academic
Diversity
- Concrete
Abstract - Simple
Complex - More Structured
More Open - Few Steps Many Steps
- Less Independence
Greater Independenc
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13Active Learning
- Kagan Cooperative Learning Structures
- Community Building Activities
- Strategies and Activities to Support
Differentiation - Themes/Simple Enhancers decorations, clothes,
handouts, food, etc.
14Sharing Successes
- Over 175 schools have participated
- Currently 50 schools in programs
- 24 schools have applied for next year
- Additional school teams attending OPTIONS and
Write Track - Schools participating in multiple programs over
time
15Lessons Learned
- School administrators transfer and retire
- Schools are rezoned
- District level awareness and support are
important
16FDLRS Action