FLaRE - Florida Literacy and Reading Excellence Center

The Florida Literacy and Reading Excellence project was established in 2000 through a Florida legislative appropriation and has become Florida’'s literacy center for professional development. FLaRE supports the Florida Department of Education initiatives by disseminating information about literacy instruction and assessment statewide. Through the FLaRE website, dialogue with literacy professors at Florida universities, staff development initiatives in individual schools and districts, and extensive Summer Literacy Institutes across the state, FLaRE strives to meet the professional development needs of Florida’'s teachers and administrators.

The FLaRE Center serves as

• a statewide system for providing literacy professional development.
• an information clearinghouse for scientifically based literacy research.
• a development center for educator professional development materials.
• a linkage for school districts, institutions of higher education, community organizations that have a vested interest in literacy and reading excellence.
• a lighthouse for disseminating information on successful projects.

Please contact:
Larry Bedenbaugh, EDD
Rita B. Buchoff, Ed.D.
Debby L. Mitchell, Ed.D.
Enrique Puig , MS

For additional information please visit flare.ucf.edu