Statutes and Rules
This Rule provides the requirements and implementation of the approval process for each type of teacher preparation program.
What is Rule 6A-5.066, F.A.C., Approval of Teacher Preparation Programs?
This is the branch of government where the Florida Department of Education is positioned.
What is the Executive Branch?
This 2022 bill included provisions designed to protect individual freedoms and prevent discrimination in the workplace and public schools. It serves as a foundational bill for much of our work.
What is House Bill 7?
This is the program that the Department leverages to provide assistance to schools in forming and maintaining a pre-collegiate and collegiate teacher recruitment programs.
What is the Florida Future Educators of America?
These two BERDR teams are a natural fit when working on clinical education or leadership programs.
What are Educator Preparation and Retention?
This statute specifies that at least one third of a final summative evaluation must be based on performance of students, at least one third must be based on instructional practice, and an optional component measuring other indicators of performance.
What is Section 1012.34, F.S., Personnel evaluation procedures and criteria?
This colorful sheet of paper is needed as a companion to any packet that routes within FDOE.
What is a purple routing form?
This 2023 bill established the Dual Enrollment Scholarship Program and the Teacher Apprenticeship Program, among other important programs.
What is House Bill 1035?
This program is offered by Florida postsecondary institutions to prepare instructional personnel, under Section 1004.04, F.S., resulting in qualification for an initial Florida Professional Educator's Certificate.
What is Initial Teacher Preparation Programs?
These three EQ bureaus engage in collaboration when putting on programs that affect curriculum, instruction, and content for teachers and school leaders.
What are BERDR, JRF, and BSIS?
These two rules impact teacher and leader preparation programs and evaluation systems, as they put forth the standards for what teachers and leaders should know and be able to do.
What are Rules 6A-5.065, F.A.C., The Florida Educator Accomplished Practices, and 6A-5.080, F.A.C., The Florida Educational Leadership Standards?
This informal document was created to assist BERDR team members with common edits made from leadership.
What is "Sunny Side Up" Edits Sheet?
What is an Education Train bill?
This program spans the entire state of Florida, as districts are able to nominate and raise up educators making a difference.
What is the Florida Teacher/School-Related/AP/Principal of the Year Program?
These two divisions have been incredible partners to BERDR and will be partners moving forward to successfully support the Teacher Apprenticeship Program.
What are the Career and Adult Education Division and the Division of Florida Colleges?
This statute overlaps with both educator preparation policies and professional learning policies, at it governs both professional learning certification programs and professional education competency programs.
What is Section 1012.56, F.S., Educator certification requirements?
These are the two classifications of positions a person may have while employed at the Department.
What is Select Exempt Service (SES) and Career Service positions?
This is the number of committees a bill must successfully pass through in order to go the floor for final passage.
What is 3?
This program provides key skills to program designers within school districts and universities to effectively create and sustain a coaching and modeling program for aspiring teachers.
What is clinical education?
These two BERDR teams and this external division often collaborate to review teacher vacancy data, VAM data, and external data requests.
What is R&R, Retention, and ARM?
This statute, which expired in 2022, was intended to recruit, retain, and recognize teachers who meet the needs of the state and have achieved success in the classroom.
What is Section 1012.731, F.S., The Florida Best and Brightest Teacher Program?
This is the classification for any FDOE document, email, work related text message, or Microsoft Teams conversation or file.
What is public record?
This is the written document that both Capitol staff and Department staff must complete on a proposed bill identifying key components and how it may affect education stakeholders.
What is a bill analysis?
This optional program may be offered by school districts, charter schools, and charter management organizations to prepare school leaders.
What is a Level II program?
These two offices within FDOE provide tremendous support on topics like rule development, media inquiries, House and Senate bill alignment with current practice, and forward-facing events.
What is Legal and Communications?