Staff Directory
Administrator
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Sandra Chambers- Collins |
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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 Specialists
- Jennifer Borrelli
- Andrea Dunckel
- Jane Hines
- Mia Laudato
- Elizabeth McAulay
- Anjanette McGee-Cason
- Melissa Mulock
- Kinisha Rice
- Pam Taylor
- Amy Tirado
Jennifer Borrelli
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Jennifer Borrelli, MA |
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| Jen graduated from University of Florida in 1987 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Special Education. In 1996 she received her Master’s Degree in Communication from UCF. She is certified in K-12 ESE, Elementary Education and holds Reading Endorsement. An educator for more than 25 years, Jen 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 has served as an MTSS coach and as a reading coach. Her roles at FDLRS as Learning & Technology Resources Specialist include providing professional learning, support and coaching in behavior, literacy, technology and Universal Design for Learning. |
Andrea Dunckel
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Andrea Dunckel, MA |
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| Andrea graduated from Florida State University in 2002 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Child Development. In 2006 she received her Master’s Degree in Early Childhood Curriculum and Development from the University of Central Florida. Andrea is certified in PreK-Third Grade. ESE K-12, and PreK Handicapped Endorsement Prior to her role at FDLRS, Andrea taught Pre-K Varying Exceptionalities in Orange County Public Schools for over 6 years. She is a certified Infant Toddler Developmental Specialist and has provided early intervention services through private therapy providers. She has worked as a Family Care Coordinator for Early Steps, as well as a Child Life Assistant at a local children’s hospital. Early childhood is her passion. She believes in the power of connection and the importance of play. Andrea’s role at FDLRS is Child Find Specialist and PDA Coordinator. She provides professional development to early childhood professionals on topics such as developmentally appropriate practices, sensory processing, positive behavior supports, as well as red flags and the Child Find referral process. She also provides technical support and assistance to educators and professionals in regards to BESE/PDA courses. |
Jane Hines
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Jane Hines |
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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, MS Ed |
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| Mia Laudato graduated from the University of Miami with a Master’s Degree in Exceptional Student Education specializing in Learning Disabilities and Emotional Behavioral Disorders. She is certified in K-12 ESE, K-6 General Education, Autism (ASD) and ESOL, Pre-K ESE endorsements. She has taught students from Pre-K through college in inclusive and separate classroom settings. Her love of teaching students with ASD and passion for using assistive technologies to create successful learners, contributed to her being recognized by Orange County as a district top five finalist for Teacher of the Year 2016. She currently provides professional development and coaching support for teachers, therapists, and staff on UDL, Instructional and Assistive Technology, Accommodations, Accessible Educational Materials, IEP Goal Writing, Data Collection, ASD, teaching students with Significant Disabilities and more. Her role at FDLRS or FIN is Technology and Learning Resource Specialist |
Elizabeth McAulay
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Elizabeth McAulay M.Ed. |
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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. |
Melissa Mulock
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Melissa Mulock |
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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. |
Kinisha Rice
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Kinisha Rice, M. Ed. |
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| Kinisha graduated from American College of Education with a Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership, and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Applied Behavior Analysis from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. She is certified in Educational Leadership K-12, English 6-12, English for Speakers of Other Languages K-12, Exceptional Student Education K-12, and Reading K-12. Over her career, Kinisha has served in many capacities across the educational cascade, including leadership roles at the classroom, department, school, and district levels. Kinisha has spent her career fighting for people who systems have marginalized, starting as a mediator for dependency and juvenile delinquency cases, and becoming a teacher because she saw the significant needs of the children she worked with in that role. She started her educational career teaching students in inclusive general education settings, and has also served as an Dean of Students, ESE Resource Compliance Specialist (Staffing Specialist), Program Specialist for Autism Spectrum Disorders, MTSS Coach, PBIS Coach, Reading Coach, and AVID Site Team Coordinator. Kinisha has also served as an Assistant Principal of Curriculum and Instruction at a charter school. Kinisha’s role at FDLRS focuses primarily on building capacity within schools and systems to support challenging behavior within the school setting. In this role, she works with school and district staff to establish and implement effective multi-tiered systems of support capable of improving equity, inclusion, and results for all students, especially those who experience disabilities. |
Pam Taylor
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Pam Taylor |
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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. |
Amy Tirado
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Amy Tirado, M.S., CCC-SLP |
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Amy graduated from St. Joseph’s College with a double-major Bachelor’s Degree in Childhood Education and Speech Communication. She received a Master’s Degree in Communication Disorders from Long Island University. She is a certified Speech-Language Pathologist with the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) and is also certified in Elementary Education (grades K-6) and Exceptional Student Education (grades K-12). Prior to becoming an SLP, Amy taught in general and special education classrooms. She has practiced speech-language pathology for 10 years in public schools, private schools, and clinical settings. She has provided services to children and adults ranging from age 3 to 21 with mild to significant disabilities including a variety of speech and language delays/ disorders, Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Intellectual Disabilities, Multiple Disabilities, hearing impairments and visual impairments. She specializes in the use of a variety of assistive technology in the classroom and provided leadership and guidance to district leadership and IEP teams in consideration of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) devices and instructional technology to assist students with disabilities to access the curriculum. She has been trained in and used PECS (Levels 1 and 2) with her students in addition to a variety of other AAC systems. Her role at FDLRS is Technology Resource Specialist. She facilitates, coaches, and empowers educators, SLPs and families on the successful implementation of technology to improve communication and academic outcomes for students with disabilities. |
FIN Facilitators
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Rosemarie Bedesem
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Rosemarie "Ro" Bedesem |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Arelis Valentin
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Arelis Valentin |
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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 |
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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. |