Staff Directory

Jennifer Borrelli, MA

Andrea Dunckel, MA

Jane Hines

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, MS Ed

Elizabeth McAulay M.Ed.

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

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

Melissa Mulock began her teaching career in 1999. As a Learning Resource Specialist, Melissa leads professional learning opportunities and coaches educators throughout the state of Florida in the areas of Reading, the Strategic Instruction Model and cooperative learning. Prior to leaving the classroom, she spent 12 years teaching reading and learning strategies to middle and high school students.

Melissa earned her degree in Exceptional Student Education from the University of Central Florida. She has a passion for inclusion of students with unique needs, and credits quality content instruction using SIM Learning Strategies and Content Enhancement Routines paired with Kagan Cooperative Learning Structures as essential tools for making inclusion a success socially and academically for the benefit of all students. Melissa has experience in creating inclusion models and inclusive scheduling.

Melissa has earned the elite status of a certified Strategic Instruction Model Professional Developer for the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning since 2003 and as a National Board Certified Teacher in 2004. Melissa is a certified Kagan Cooperative Learning Associate Trainer and has a reading endorsement for the state of Florida. She has a strong desire for learning, mentoring, and leading others to build positive relationships and provide quality instruction.

Kinisha Rice, M. Ed.

Pam Taylor

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, M.S., CCC-SLP

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.

Allison Kanji

Kimberly Riley

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.

Denise Bagnerise

Her areas of focus at FDLRS includes: purchasing, budgets, and  administrative support.

Arelis Valentin

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

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 site administration, registration system administration and inservice points reporting.