Florida's student support services and programs are aligned with Florida Board of Education and the Florida Department of Education's Eight Strategic Imperatives — Eight To Be Great! The Eight Strategic Imperatives define the Board’s priorities.
- Increasing the supply of highly qualified K-12 instructors
- Applying existing academic standards at all levels consistently
- Increasing rates of learning and completion at all levels, especially in high school, and raising the proportion of K-12 graduates, particularly low-income and minority students, who enter post-secondary education without remediation
- Improving the quality of school leadership at all levels
- Setting and aligning academic standards for every level of the K-20 education system
- Appropriately aligning the workforce's education with the skill requirements of the new economy
- Aligning financial resources with performance expectations at each level of the K-20 education system
- Achieving world-class, nationally recognized institutions of higher learning by improving access, funding, performance, and accountability
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The Student Support Services project is a joint venture between the University of South Florida and the Bureau of Exceptional Education and Student Services, Florida Department of Education. Project staff are located in Tallahassee, Florida. Student Support Services staff are charged with facilitating the development of critical support services programs so that observable and measureable indicators of success are achieved. This is accomplished through the provision of technical assistance, training, research, resource development, and policy development and interpretation to local and state educators and parents.
- Assistance in the development of interagency agreements and attendance policies for truancy response
- Implementation of functional academic and behavior assessment for at-risk students
- Development of intervention assistance teams in schools
- Interpretation of the Florida laws and rules related to student services roles and responsibilities
- Responses to parents and educators on issues of concern
- Implementation of Medicaid funding for behavioral services
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- Curriculum-based assessment and measurement
- Assessment and interventions for students with attention deficit disorders
- Social skills, anger management, conflict resolution training
- Developing district and school-based crisis response teams
- Annual statewide attendance symposium
- Annual Summer Institute
- Pre-kindergarten assessment
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- A compendium of programs that work, Helping Students Succeed
- Student Services Directory of district and state programs and administrators
- Training modules for intervention assistance teams, social skills, curriculum-based assessment, attention deficit disorder, Section 504
- Effective truancy prevention programs
- Accountability and evaluation of student service programs
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- Legislative impact reviews
- State Board of Education rule development
- Certification and licensure for student services professionals
- Liaison with state professional associations to facilitate policy development and support
- Student records retention policies
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