Staff Directory
Administrator
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Sandra Chambers- Collins |
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Senior Administrator | ||
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407-317-3660 ext. 6283661 |
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Sandra has been and educator for many years, serving in various roles in the district. Her experiences include teaching English I and Learning Strategies at a high school for 9 years to special education students. She also served as a staffing specialist as well as teaching night school to high school students in a credit retrieval program. Sandra holds certification in History 6-12, Exceptional Education K-12, Educational Leadership, and through her doctoral work has specialized in Autism. Sandra has served as district administrator for multiple years; as a program specialist for the North Learning Community, where she coordinated the special education programs and services for 25 elementary schools, 6 middle schools and 4 high schools. She also served as the Program Specialist for Secondary Curriculum, working with high school Inclusion Coaches to monitor and improve graduation outcomes for students with learning disabilities, monitoring reading programs for middle and high schools, and working with school administrators to increase inclusionary opportunities for students with disabilities. Sandra's focus at FDLRS will be on grant management, community and district collaboration, leadership and program support. |
Learning Resource Specilalists
- Jennifer Borrelli
- Andrea Dunckel
- Jane Hines
- Mia Laudato
- Elizabeth McAulay
- Anjanette McGee-Cason
- Wendi Melton-Harper
- Melissa Mulock
- Pam Taylor
- Robin Williams
Jennifer Borrelli
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Jennifer Borrelli |
Learning Resource Specialist | |
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Jennifer began her education career in 1988 and has taught students with behavior disorders, intellectual disabilities, learning disabilities and general education students in inclusive and separate class settings, ages kindergarten through college. She holds certifications in K-12 ESE, Elementary Education and is Reading Endorsed. Jennifer broadened her reach as an educator while serving in coaching roles as MTSS coach and as reading coach, participating in district and state writing teams for students with disabilities, and providing professional development for teachers and parents. Jennifer's areas of focus at FDLRS include: Behavior MTSS at the school wide, classroom and individual student levels; mindfulness in education; instructional practices for students with significant cognitive disabilities; Instructional Technology and Assistive Technology. |
Andrea Dunckel
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Andrea Dunckel |
Child Find Specialist | |
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Andrea has worked in the early childhood field for nearly 15 years. She has been a preschool teacher, Family Care Coordinator for Early Steps, and a Pre-K ESE teacher. She is also a certified Infant and Toddler Developmental Specialist and has provided targeted case management to families with special needs. Her areas of focus at FDLRS includes: educational services for young children (birth-five) , early childhood teacher training and support, parent training, collaborative partnership building, and community collaboration. |
Jane Hines
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Jane Hines |
Learning Resource Specialist | |
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Jane is a certified SIM Professional Developer for Content Enhancement, and has worked as a middle school teacher in both the private and public sectors for over 20 years. While in the classroom, Jane was a mentor for new teachers and those seeking alternative certification. She has experience as a social studies, language arts, and reading teacher and as a co-teacher in "History-Arts." As a social studies content expert, Jane has worked on several teams to create instructional materials and summative assessments. Her areas of focus at FDLRS include: The Strategic Instruction Model Content Enhancement and reading instruction. |
Mia Laudato
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Mia Laudato |
Technology Specialist | |
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Mia has over 10 years of teaching experience. Most recently, she has worked as Exceptional Education teacher of students with Autism Spectrum Disorders at the Elementary and Pre-K level and has had extensive hands on experience teaching with technology in the classroom. She has won and received numerous awards and accolades including UCF REACH Model Classroom. She has served on numerous writing teams including the District ACCESS Points and District End of Course (EOC) writing and assessment teams. She has presented at conferences and works with the local assistive technology team (LATS) to provide teacher with tools and tip for integrating technology into the classroom. She holds endorsements in Autism and Pre-K ESE. Her areas of focus include: Assistive Technology and Instructional Technology. |
Elizabeth McAulay
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Elizabeth McAulay M.Ed. |
Learning Resource Specialist | |
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Elizabeth began her teaching career in 1997. She attended the University of Central Florida and earned a Masters of Education in Varying Exceptionalities. Her teaching experience includes working with students with physical impairments, significant cognitive disabilities, and autism in both structured classroom and inclusive environment settings. Elizabeth broadened her reach as an educational professional while working as an Instructional Support Teacher at the district level supporting teachers and schools throughout Orange County Public Schools. Her role in this position included working with teachers, school staff, parents and administrators in creating effective learning environments for students with disabilities. Additionally, Elizabeth has been a certified CPI (Crisis Prevention Intervention) instructor since 2004. Elizabeth’s areas of focus at FDLRS include: Behavioral MTSS at the school wide, classroom and individual student levels; instructional practices for students with significant cognitive disabilities; instructional practices for students with autism spectrum disorder, high functioning autism & Asperger’s syndrome; and ESE compliance to include Quality IEP, Facilitated IEP, Matrix, and Accommodations trainings. |
Anjanette McGee-Cason
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Anjanette McGee-Cason |
Parent Specialist & Gifted Specialist | |
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Anjanette McGee-Cason has worked in the education field for over 21+ years. She has served in many roles in her professional educational experience in the private and public sector. Anjanette has been an Elementary Teacher (K-5), Pre-K Varying Exceptionalities Teacher, Reading Intervention Specialist, facilitated Professional Development workshops and served as an Administrator in schools. She is also a certified college professor in the College of Education and the Arts and Science. Here at FDLRS, Anjanette will focus on Child Find and Parent Resources. She will assist parents through workshops that empower them to become active participants in their child's education and provide professional development workshops for educators and educational providers. Anjanette is also our certified Gifted Specialist. She has done extensive research regarding gifted and talented students delivery of instruction, program strategies, criteria and assessments. Anjanette provides professional development for educators and administrators, curriculum review and strategies for parents to work with their children in the gifted and talented programs. |
Wendi Melton-Harper
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Wendi Melton-Harper |
Technology Specialist | |
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Wendi has worked in the field of Exceptional Student Education for over 15 years, specifically with individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder. While working in the classroom, she gained extensive hands-on experience using and teaching the use of technology with students. Wendi attended the University of Central Florida and earned her Master of Education degree in Varying Exceptionalities as well as the Autism Spectrum Disorder endorsement. She also holds a Prekindergarten Disabilities Endorsement. She has been trained in and used PECS (Level 1 & 2) with her students. Her areas of focus at FDLRS include: Assistive Technology, Instructional Technology, Autism Spectrum Disorder, and Significant Cognitive Disabilities |
Melissa Mulock
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Melissa Mulock |
Learning Resource Specialist | |
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Melissa is a National Board certified Teacher and certified SIM Professional Developer for Learning Strategies and Content Enhancement. She has experience in middle and high school settings as a reading and Learning Strategies teacher; co-teacher in English and World History classes (high school); support facilitation in English, World History, Algebra, Geometry and Algebra II classes (high school) and development of high school inclusion models. Her areas of focus at FDLRS include: The Strategic Instruction Model, reading instruction and collaborative teaching. |
Pam Taylor
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Pam Taylor |
Learning Resource Specialist | |
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Pamela Taylor graduated from the University of Central Florida with a B.S. In Exceptional Student Education K-12. She has taught in the field of education for over fifteen years. Her experience ranges from primary to secondary levels. Pamela was chosen to be part of a special education team to set up an ESE program to partner with businesses in the area to employ students with disabilities. Her dedication to the educational system paved a way for her to be nominated for teacher of the year. After teaching as an IND teacher, she became a support facilitator in elementary schools. Pamela mentored ESE teachers on PEER, ESE procedures, and scheduling. In September 2018, Pamela became a trainer with FDLRS specializing in the area of compliance and parent engagement. Her areas of focus include: Compliance. |
Robin Williams
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Robin Williams |
Learning Resource Specialist | |
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Robin has over 15 years of teaching experience working with children ranging from early childhood Pre-K assessments and teaching programs in the public schools to working with adolescents and adults with developmental disabilities, including those with autism spectrum disorders. Robin began her career in Applied Behavior Analysis at a residential group home for persons with developmental disabilities and severe problem behavior. She has also worked as a Behavior Analyst with a variety of agencies throughout the state facilitating both the treatment of children and adults, and is currently co-owner of a local Mental Health and ABA agency. Robin also has experience teaching adults in the Child Development Associate program at Orlando Technical School. Robin’s specialties include: Development and Implementation of training for educators, Functional Behavioral Assessments, Behavior Support Plans, and parent training in interventions and treatment based on the science of Applied Behavior Analysis. Her areas of focus at FDLRS include: classroom/behavior management, sensory-integration instructional strategies, instructional strategies for students with Autism Spectrum Disorder and significant cognitive disabilities, and executive functioning training. |
FIN Facilitators
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Rosemarie Bedesem
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Rosemarie "Ro" Bedesem |
FIN Faciliatator | |
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Rosemarie has over 10 years of experience as an exceptional education educator. She has taught at both the middle and high school level, teaching in all content areas and working as a collaborative teacher and support facilitator in the areas of ELA and math. She earned her Master's degree in Special Education focusing primarily on students on the Autism Spectrum and students with varying exceptionalities. As a FIN Facilitator, Ro's focus will be on providing positive and meaningful partnerships with districts and schools to provide deliberate inclusion opportunities for students with disabilities through the facilitation of school and district BPIE, inclusive scheduling, Growth Mindset, Peers as Partners in Learning, and Collaborative Teaching. |
Allison Kanji
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Allison Kanji |
FIN Facilitator | |
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Allison comes to FDLRS with a strong background in social studies, and has numerous experience teaching reading and writing across the curriculum including implementing AVID strategies and Document-Based Questioning (DBQ) and Write Track into her teaching. She was fortunate to begin her career at Ocoee Middle School, Orange County's first and premier digital school where technology was infused throughout the curriculum and co-teaching was the norm. She has also served as Social Studies Department Chair and as a New Teacher Mentor to support the professional growth of her colleagues new to the field of teaching. |
Kimberly Riley
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Kimberly Riley |
FIN Facilitator | |
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Kim earned her degree in Education with the specialization of Early Childhood Education from Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts in 1992. Kim currently maintains certifications in PreK- Grade 3, ESE K-12 and Pre-K Disabilities endorsement. She began her teaching career as a co-teacher for an integrated preschool program for students with Autism Spectrum Disorder and typically developing students ages 3-5 in the public school system. She worked with staff to support students with autism when they graduated from the program to enter kindergarten. During that time, she also bridged the gap of home/school connection and provided home visits to support the concerns and issues families were having at home with their child in order to help them be successful in school. Kim moved to Florida in 2004 where she was a teacher of students with varying exceptionalities in grades K-5. Her teaching experience includes working with students with significant cognitive disabilities, physical disabilities, specific learning disabilities, developmentally delayed, orthopedically impaired, autism and other health impaired in both structured classroom and inclusive environment settings. While school based Kim became the ESE team lead providing professional development to school staff in support of inclusionary practices and mentor to new teachers. In expanding her support for teachers and students Kim joined the OCPS District ESE department as an Instructional Coach supporting teachers across the district K-12. Her role in this position included working with teachers, school staff, parents and administrators in creating effective learning environments for students with a significant cognitive disability instructed in Access Points. Kim's passion for providing access to, participation in and progress within standards based instruction and what that looks like for a student with a significant cognitive disability has lead her to providing professional development at the district and state levels. She has collaborated with the FLDOE and team of writers from across the state in developing the access points for content areas. She has trained teachers on the instruction of access points and assessment through the FSAA (Florida Standards Alternate Assessment). For several years she has lead a team of curriculum writers in creating resources for the teaching and learning of access points that directly correlate to the general education standards to help facilitate inclusionary opportunities for students with a significant cognitive disability. As a FIN facilitator Kim's area of focus will be: the facilitation of District and School BPIE Assessments, Planning and Problem Solving, Growth Mindset, Building Inclusive Schools (including Students with a Significant Cognitive Disability), Inclusive Scheduling, Collaborative Teaching, Peer Supports (Peers As Partners in Learning), and Data Chats. |
Support Staff
Marykay Johnson
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Marykay Johnson |
Registration Support Services | |
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Marykay has worked in the field of education for 21+ years. She has experience in the following areas: purchasing, budget/finance, in-service documentation, and online registration services. Her areas of focus at FDLRS includes: purchasing, budgets, in-service reporting and online registration support. |
Cheryl Ham
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Cheryl Ham |
Administrative Secretary | |
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Arelis Valentin
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Arelis Valentin |
Center Support Services | |
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Arelis has worked in the field of education for 12+ years. She has experience in the following areas: payroll services, administrative support, and media resource support. Her areas of focus at FDLRS includes: payroll, front office support, data collection and media resource support. |
Craig Stephens
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Craig Stephens |
Database Coordinator | |
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Craig has been working with computers for 30+ years. He has experience in almost every area of computers including computer repair, end-user support, network administration, programming, database creation and administration, web design and programming, business and graphics software training. His areas of focus at FDLRS includes: database administration, web database development and administration and website design and administration. |