The Academy: Innovative Learning Platform

The Academy: Innovative Learning Platform

by | Oct 7, 2024

The Academy serves as a central hub for educators, school leaders, families, and community partners seeking practical, user-friendly materials. The goal is simple – to encourage widespread use of these free valuable tools in classrooms, schools, homes, and other settings-anywhere that children are learning. Access a variety of brief lessons and longer courses designed to help you use the many free, evidence-based materials highlighted on fcrr.org. Each resource was made with you in mind. The Academy will help you use them. Literacy coaches, school leaders, and providers can also use these lessons in their own coaching and professional learning sessions with their teachers or literacy events with families and community members. The Academy houses everything you need to provide face-to-face professional learning opportunities in your school, district, and community. These long courses are designed to foster expertise in reading instruction, literacy coaching, and literacy leadership, and may even contribute towards endorsements or recertification (training and state approval may be required to access some courses).

The Academy: Innovative Learning Platform

The Academy – FCRR

by | May 30, 2024

Need help using the evidence-based resources available at FCRR.org? Join us in The Academy! Over the last 20 years, FCRR and our friends and colleagues all over the world have worked hard to develop evidence-based tools and resources for you. Most of them are free. Now it’s time to use them! Here you will find free lessons and courses to get you going on the right track. Each features evidence-based resources and tools. Some were developed by FCRR. Others were developed by our friends and colleagues. We just want you to use them! We provide links and information to direct you to the original source of the material. That way, you can find even more free resources that have been developed just for you! We will continue to develop more lessons and courses, so please come back and visit us often. Together, we will make sure that all children are reading and succeeding in school!

Here you will find free lessons and courses to get you going on the right track. Each features evidence-based resources and tools. Some were developed by FCRR. Others were developed by our friends and colleagues. We just want you to use them! We provide links and information to direct you to the original source of the material. That way, you can find even more free resources that have been developed just for you! We will continue to develop more lessons and courses, so please come back and visit us often. Together, we will make sure that all children are reading and succeeding in school!

Training for Promising Literacy Practices in K-5 Out-of-School-Time Programs

Training for Promising Literacy Practices in K-5 Out-of-School-Time Programs

by | Jan 24, 2024

Florida Grade-Level Reading Campaign (FGLRC), an initiative of Florida Alliance of Children’s Council & Trusts (FACCT), offers an engaging in person training based on FGLRC’s ‘Promising Literacy Practices in K-5 OST Programs’, a document designed for K-5 OST staff and directors. 

Training participants will be guided through 21 literacy practices aligned to the 7 categories of the Florida Standards for Quality Afterschool Programs. They will partake in small group discussion and activities that support these literacy practices, and will be familiarized with supporting literacy research documents and resources.

University of Florida Lastinger Center for Learning

University of Florida Lastinger Center for Learning

by | Jul 14, 2022

The UF Lastinger Center for Learning improves the quality of teaching, learning, and caregiving. We research, develop, and scale equitable educational innovations for adults and children that put all learners on trajectories for lifelong success. We provide professional development in early learning, literacy, and mathematics.

Approved Early Literacy Courses

Approved Early Literacy Courses

by | Jul 14, 2022

Pursuant to Section 402.305(2)(d)5., F.S., all child care personnel must complete a single course of training in early literacy and language development of children ages birth through five years that is a minimum of five clock hours or .5 CEUs. Early literacy training must be completed within 12 months of date of employment in the child care industry. Proof of completion may be documented on a certificate of course completion, classroom transcript, or diploma.