Professional Development - Registration

FDLRS/FIN Crown Local Professional Development Registration Site

Serving: Clay , Duval and Nassau School Districts


Sensory and Autism - Virtual 3:30-6:30   December 11 2023
Points: 6
Presenter: Dr. Melissa Call
Sensory and Autism- Part 4 of a 7-part series on Autism in the Classroom. This training focuses on the importance of addressing sensory needs in students with autism. We will learn strategies to address each of the seven sensory systems as well as determining the difference between sensory responses and behavior responses.

6 ESE points with required follow up.
Audience: All teachers serving students on the autism spectrum.
Place: Vitrual
Creating Visual Supports_Open Lab_ 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.    December 20 2023
Points: 8
Presenter: Matthew Take and Dr. Melissa Call
Prerequisite: Participants MUST have previously taken a LessonPix training/Creating Visual Supports.


The Creating Visual Supports: Part 2 Open Lab will be open for participants to create visual supports. LessonPix will be the platform used to help with creating manipulatives and visual supports. The Open Lab will be an opportunity to utilize FDLRS resources (i.e. velcro, laminate, printing of visuals, etc.) to create to support students in academics, behavior, transitions, etc. Visual supports are paramount in everyday life and are a must for people of all abilities. This will be an active session with participants working directly with the available resources and tools in the lab. Participants will be able to create a variety of visuals to be used with students.

Course Requirements to receive credit for taking this course (points or certificate of completion)


8 ESE Recertification Points
Audience: ESE Teachers, SLPs, OTs, Pre-K Teachers, Paraprofessionals
Place: FDLRS Crown_ 1531 Winthrop Street
Creating Visual Supports: Open Lab 8:30 - 3:30    December 21 2023
Points: 8
Presenter: Dr. Melissa Call and Matthew Take
The Creating Visual Supports: Open Lab will be open for participants to create visual supports. LessonPix will be the platform used to help with creating manipulatives and visual supports. The Open Lab will be an opportunity to utilize FDLRS resources (i.e. velcro, laminate, printing of visuals, etc.) to create to support students in academics, behavior, transitions, etc. Visual supports are paramount in everyday life and are a must for people of all abilities. This will be an active session with participants working directly with the available resources and tools in the lab. Participants will be able to create a variety of visuals to be used with students.

Course Requirements to receive credit for taking this course (points or certificate of completion)

Audience: ESE Teachers, SLPs, OTs, Pre-K Teachers, Paraprofessionals
Place: FDLRS Crown_ 1531 Winthrop Street
Vocabulary Word Nerds 8:30-3:30   January 11 2024
Points: 6
Presenter: FDLRS Specialists
Vocabulary instruction needs to be incorporated into a teacher’s daily schedule and follow a systematic method of helping students experience academic vocabulary and concept words to increase their achievement. This book study shows how teachers can incorporate needed vocabulary instruction daily into their already-packed literacy schedule. It incorporates the criteria for choosing words, getting students motivated, activities that can be used, and how they can physically rearrange the classroom so that all the activities can take place.

6 ESE Points
Audience: All Teachers
Place: John Love Elementary
Adaptive Books - Virtual 3:30-6:30   January 22 2024
Points: 6
Presenter: Dr. Melissa Call
Adaptive Books- Part 6 in a 7-part series on Autism in the Classroom. In this course we will learn how to increase literacy experience and engagement for students with autism by adapting texts. The Literacy Bill of Rights states that ALL students should have opportunities to read and write with accessible and appropriate texts, interact with others while reading/writing, and live and learn in environments that maintain the expectations and attitudes that all individuals are literacy learners.

6 ESE points with required follow up.
Audience: All teachers serving students on the autism spectrum.
Place: Virtual
Teach Like a Pirate Virtual 3:30 - 6:30   January 29 2024
Points: 6
Presenter: Call
Based on Dave Burgess’ new book, this training offers inspiration, practical techniques, and innovative ideas that will help you to increase student engagement, boost your creativity, and transform your life as an educator. To receive points you will need to complete the follow up activity and submit it to your instructor.

6 Points with required follow-up.
Audience: All Teachers
Place: Virtual
LessonPix 8:30 - 3:30    January 29 2024
Points: 6
Presenter: Dr. Melissa Call and Matthew Take
Visual supports are paramount in everyday life. Participants will learn the importance of visual supports for people of all abilities. Participants will then use the online platform, LessonPix, to create visual supports. LessonPix is an easy-to-use online tool that allows users to create various customized learning materials from any computer, tablet, or even smartphone. This will be an active session with participants working directly with the tools. Participants will create a variety of visuals to be used with students.

Learn how to navigate this online tool to:

• Create numerous custom visual supports
• Browse the library that contains over 40,000 pictures.
• Upload your own clip art or photos to use with our custom materials.
• Find ideas on how to use LessonPix at home, in the classroom, or with children with special needs.

This course is a pre-requisite for Adapt-A-Book and Creating Visual Supports hands-on workshops.

Course Requirements to receive credit for taking this course (points or certificate of completion)




6 ESE Recertification Points
Audience: ESE Teachers, SLPs, OTs and Pre-K Teachers
Place: FDLRS Crown_ 1531 Winthrop Street
_Adapt - a - Book_ 8:00 - 3:30   January 30 2024
Points: 6
Presenter: Dr. Melissa Call and Matthew Take
Participants must have attended Boardmaker or LessonPix as a prerequisite to taking the adapt-a-book open lab.

Join this training will be for participants to create adapted books. LessonPix will be the platform used to help with creating manipulatives and visual supports to support the text. The Open Lab will be an opportunity to utilize FDLRS resources (i.e. velcro, laminate, printing of visuals, etc.) to create adapted books. This will be an active session with participants working directly with the available resources and tools in the lab with guidance for the FDLRS staff.

6 ESE Recertification Points
Audience: ESE Teachers, SLPs, OTs, Pre-K Teachers, Paraprofessionals
Place: FDLRS Training Room - 1531 Winthrop Street
Writing for Diverse Learners - 3:30 - 6:30p.m.   February 06 2024
Points: 6
Presenter: FDLRS Staff
Following Evidenced-Based Practices (EBP) for writing, this training will increase your knowledge of the importance of explicit instruction and word study for writing, especially for diverse learners. We will cover a wide variety of strategies, including strategies for students on access points. Follow-up is required for 6 ESE points.

Audience: K-12 Teachers
Place: Virtual via Adobe Link
Show Me with a Social Narrative - Virtual 3:30-6:30   February 12 2024
Points: 6
Presenter: Dr. Melissa Call
Show me with a Social Narrative- Part 7 in a 7-part series on Autism in the Classroom. This training demonstrates the importance of using social narratives to help students with autism understand social demands, interactions, and communication through social stories/narratives. A social narrative is an illustration that describe social situations for learners with ASD, explain the feelings and thoughts of others in the social situation, describe appropriate behavior expectations, individualized based upon the needs of the learner, so they can understand social norms and how to communicate with others appropriately.

6 ESE points with required follow up.
Audience: All teachers serving students on the autism spectrum.
Place: Vitrual
Executive Functioning - Down the Rabbit Hole    February 29 2024
Points: 6
Presenter: FDLRS Staff
"This training will give you strategies to help students who may struggle with cognitive flexibility, self-control, memory, organization/planning, and initiating task/staying focused on tasks.

Complete your Wonderland Passport as you navigate through the complexities of Executive Functioning."
Course Requirements to receive credit for taking this course (points or certificate of completion)

1. Complete all follow-up activities

2. Upload data into the Student Impact Database

6 ESE Recertification Points
Audience: ESE/General Education Teachers
Place: FDLRS Crown - 1531 Winthrop St
UDL    March 05 2024
Points: 6
Presenter: Matthew Take and Dr. Melissa Call
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for ALL people based on scientific insights into how humans learn. If your goal, as a teacher is to “grow” expert learners, then UDL is a proven pathway to achieve that goal. This training will show you practical ways to infuse the UDL framework into your teaching practices. You will have the opportunity to experience UDL in practice as you determine the best pathway for your personal learning.


ESE Recertification Points – 6
Audience: All Teachers
Place: Location_ John Love Elementary
Phonological Awareness 8:30 - 3:30   March 14 2024
Points: 6
Presenter: FDLRS Staff - Call
Transform struggling readers into successful readers with this field-tested, evidence-based phonological awareness program. This supplemental Tier 2 curriculum is the ideal way to deliver systematic, intensive phonological awareness instruction to students in Grades K–2, whether they have language impairments or just need extra help with literacy skills. This proven program helps you sharpen struggling students’ phonological awareness skills through focused, small-group lessons that take just 30 minutes each. It walks you through every step, with explicit guidance, suggested scripts, teaching strategies, and tips on what to do when a student is still struggling with a skill. A must-have for teachers of young children and reading specialists.

· align instruction with the Standards

· deliver high-quality RTI Tier 2 instruction

· improve four critical phonological awareness skills: rhyming, initial sounds, final sounds, and complete segmentation

· scaffold lessons and adapt the pace of instruction

· get results without significant time investment—just 30 minutes, three times a week

· enhance any existing curriculum

PRACTICAL MATERIALS: 100+ pages of downloadable classroom content! Game boards, word lists, implementation checklists, and more than 20 sets of colorful picture cards help students learn and retain phonological awareness skills in a fun and engaging way.

Course Requirements to receive credit for taking this course (points or certificate of completion)

1. Complete all follow-up activities



6 ESE Recertification Points

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Audience: All Kindergarten to 2nd-grade teachers
Place: FDLRS Crown - 1531 Winthrop St
Sensory Island -8:30am to 3:30pm   March 27 2024
Points: 6
Presenter: FDLRS Staff
Learn about student sensory integration difficulties while competing in a variety of sensory based challenges.

Based on Lauren H. Kerstein's My Sensory Book: Working Together to Explore Sensory Issues and the Big Feelings They Can Cause: A Workbook for Parents, Professionals, and Children. It is designed to be a tool to help parents, professionals and children
themselves understand the sensory systems.

The training focuses on the child as a whole person as we explore sensory issues, sensory modulation, emotional modulation, and the relationship between the sensory and emotional systems.
Course Requirements to receive credit for taking this course (points or certificate of completion)

1. Complete all follow-up activities



6 ESE Recertification Points
Audience: ESE/General Education Teachers
Place: FDLRS Crown - 1531 Winthrop St
Poor Students Rich Teaching -8:30am to 3:30pm    April 15 2024
Points: 6
Presenter: FDLRS Staff
Based on the book by Eric Jensen, teachers will understand the urgency of poverty in the United States and how poverty affects education, student engagement, and academic achievement.

They will learn how creating a positive school culture and a growth mindset for students can be beneficial in overcoming adversity and gain powerful mindsets in the classroom setting to bring change.

Participants work to build effective teacher-student relationships, and help students see achievement as a reachable target.

Course Requirements to receive credit for taking this course (points or certificate of completion)

1. Complete all follow-up activities


6 ESE Recertification Points
Audience: ESE/General Education Teachers
Place: FDLRS Crown - 1531 Winthrop St
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