Florida School Reports

Florida Affiliate

Through the support and leadership of the Council for Educational Change and the Florida Department of Education, Just for the Kids - Florida is the driving force in school improvement across the state. Leadership and funding from the Florida Council 100, Florida Atlantic University; University of North Florida Policy Center, and Governor Jeb Bush are helping to make this a reality.

Contact:
Sisty Walsh
V.P. Administration & Communication, CEC

For additional information on becoming a Just for the Kids state affiliate, click here.
The JFTK-Florida affiliate, the Council for Educational Change, was founded in 2001 as the successor organization to the Florida Annenberg Challenge. The Challenge and JFTK partnered on the Florida School Report and that work continues through the Council. Additional online materials were produced by the Council, including best practice strategies of successful schools which emerged from the data analysis. The Council participated in the EdTrust/NCEA/Just for the Kids 2004-2005 High School Best Practices Study, as well as a Best Practices Study of high performing elementary and middle schools. The Council for Educational Change is Florida's Educational Think Tank.

Welcome to the Just for the Kids - Florida School Reports school information website, providing actionable data and proven best practices to help raise academic achievement and close achievement gaps at all grade levels.

Since it's inception in 1995, Just for the Kids' primary focus has been to help find and fulfill every school's potential for reaching excellence in student achievement. JFTK services and tools have been created to support school systems that accept the challenge of preparing ALL students for college and skilled careers. The JFTK strategy toward achieving excellence is embodied in three basic steps:

Step 1 - Inform: Analyze your school's achievement potential using Just for the Kids' consistency, opportunity gap and growth reports based on your state's academic test results

Step 2 - Inspire: Learn and compare your practices to those of consistently higher performers using the interactive Framework of Best Practices

Step 3 - Improve: Apply what you've learned in Steps 1 and 2 toward intentional and targeted improvement planning and implementation

Just for the Kids tools and services first became available for Florida in 2003 and currently include 2005 Just for the Kids School Reports for elementary, middle, and high schools. Florida-based researchers have also studied Consistently Higher Performing High Schools (2005) with the findings available through the NCEA Best Practice Framework.