By Florida's measure, a record percentage of the state's public schools are doing grade-A work.

"I have been working especially hard this year to improve vocabulary instruction for all my students. I’ve used several of the ideas from FOR-PD with some success. I’ve found that for vocabulary instruction to be valuable it must be included in the daily class discussion and be linked to words that appear in the class reading."

"Even though I have a background in reading instruction, I feel that this has been a great refresher as well as provided me with new information. I really appreciate all your expertise and guidance throughout this process."

"I started this course knowing very little about the components of reading. I now have quite a bit more knowledge and the ability to implement various strategies for my students (struggling or not)."

"Where do I begin? Just a short email to express how great of an experience this PD has been so far for me. I am a beginning Reading Coach and the wealth of information supplied in Competency 2 has been extraordinary! I have learned so much in these first 6 lessons and now have a great amount of information to disseminate to my teachers for the next school year!"