President's Message:

Coaching is critical to the success and advancement of student learning in the State of Florida.

Coaches can and do make a difference. We are all dedicated professionals with many responsibilities. However, we need to do one more thing this school year: we need to become cheerleaders for coaching. We can do this by helping parents, teachers and administrators understand what we do and why we do it, by promoting coaching through the contact of school board members, superintendents, and state legislators to explain how we help students achieve and help teachers succeed at their jobs. With our help, first-year teachers receive support and mentoring so they become experienced, veteran teachers.

Please make it a goal this year to ask five more coaches to join FLCA.

Beryl Rogers

President FLCA

A Message from the Dyslexia Research Registry:

The purpose of the Dyslexia Research Registry is to facilitate research in the understanding of dyslexia. We are inviting families who have a child with severe reading difficulties who would like to participate in reading research studies to join the registry. We will then notify families of research studies being conducted by the Learning Disability Center at Florida State University that are appropriate for their family in Florida.Families may then choose the studies in which they want to participate.

We are also recruiting educators and other literacy professionals who would like to participate in research. For more information contact Dr. Megan Bakan at bakan@psy.fsu.edu or 1-866-290-2456 or visit our website.

PDF Information Brochures for educators or families.