DEL Professional Learning

DEL Professional Learning

by | Mar 11, 2026

Florida’s early care and education (ECE) professional learning system provides training opportunities to early care providers to ensure children receive developmentally appropriate educational opportunities. The ECE professional learning system is a framework with elements that define career pathways tied to credentials, certifications and qualifications to meet the needs of individual adult learners in the field. The Division of Early Learning’s (DEL) network of lead trainers, representing each of the 30 early learning coalitions and school districts, delivers professional learning regionally. DEL chooses lead trainers for their education, experience in early education, and training and recognition as an outcomes-driven training facilitator. Visit the DEL professional learning web page to learn about the available professional learning opportunities.

DEL Professional Learning

Florida’s PreK-5 Literacy Instruction Practice Profile

by | Mar 11, 2026

The Florida Department of Education’s Literacy Instruction Practice Profile for Grades PreK-5 clearly defines evidencebased instructional practices of core reading instruction in a way that is teachable, learnable, doable and assessable in practice. The practice profiles feature five core components: explicit instruction, systematic instruction, scaffolded instruction, corrective feedback and differentiated instruction. The goals of the Grades PreK-5 Literacy Instruction Practice Profile is to increase the understanding of evidence-based practices in delivering literacy instruction. The practice profile is grounded in research, aligned to Florida’s Formula for Success, and corresponds to Florida’s Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking Standards (K-12) and the Florida Early Learning and Developmental Standards for Language and Literacy (PreK).

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.