The Panhandle
Area Educational Consortium’s
FloridaLearns
Academyuses the latest technology to make research-based professional development for educators
accessible, engaging, and practical. Whether through television programming, broadcast
on the Florida Education Channel, or Web-based courses and online follow-up for
professional development activities, available via the electronic Professional Development
Connections (ePDC), the
FloridaLearns Academy
offers educators across the state a variety of options for obtaining timely and
relevant information.
Through the
electronic Professional Development Connections of the
FloridaLearns
Academy
Academy, educators and administrators have the capacity to plan, follow-up and evaluate
professional development activities. Professional development offerings are also
delivered electronically, by means of a large variety of online courses available
through the ePDC. These high-quality online courses meet or exceed
Florida
’s Professional Development System Protocol Standards. In addition, the ePDC serves
as a record storage and retrieval tool to track the professional development activities
of educators.
Using the Academy,
every educator in every district has equal access to professional development, delivered
in a manner that requires less time away from the classroom and students. This capability
translates into increased academic achievement for students and financial savings
for districts.