2025 FCEC Conference- Let's LEVEL UP

Presenters:  Dr. Harvey
Recognizing pre-crisis behaviors involves identifying early signs that may signal an impending crisis. By spotting
specific indicators of a looming crisis, proactive and trauma-informed strategies can be employed to anticipate
challenges while remaining sensitive to past traumas. Inclusive care planning is essential, ensuring that
individual needs are considered and addressed. Empowering individuals with intellectual and developmental
disabilities (IDD) and co-occurring mental health conditions is a key focus, using tools that encourage active
participation in their own care planning. Additionally, familiarity with a crisis planning worksheet helps to
streamline the planning process.

Presenter: Dr. Harvey​​​​
Recognizing pre-crisis behaviors involves identifying early signs that may signal an impending crisis. By spotting
specific indicators of a looming crisis, proactive and trauma-informed strategies can be employed to anticipate
challenges while remaining sensitive to past traumas. Inclusive care planning is essential, ensuring that
individual needs are considered and addressed. Empowering individuals with intellectual and developmental
disabilities (IDD) and co-occurring mental health conditions is a key focus, using tools that encourage active
participation in their own care planning. Additionally, familiarity with a crisis planning worksheet helps to
streamline the planning process.

Presenters: Phillip Garza, Jill Minuse, Lucy Ninko, Alicia Street, & Jennifer Crabb

The KEES presentation is a deep dive on Brevard Counties Tier 1 Key Elements checklist. The KEES is a resource guide to support all students with disabilities in all settings with behavior management, instructional, and rapport building strategies, resources, and interventions.

Presenters: Jessica Williams & Maya Israel

In this presentation, we will share research results and practical strategies for inclusive CS/robotics instruction. Participants will learn how to use Universal Design for Learning and High Leverage Practices to broaden participation and address learner variability during CS/robotics instruction. Participants will learn how CS/robotics can be integrated into classroom instruction to support students’ progress on content area standards and IEP goals. 

Presenter: Dr. Mary Little, Dr. Sharonda Elliott, and Melissa Carli
Retaining Our Teachers is Our Collaborative Goal

Participants will join the conversation around the current factors, research, and projected needs for recruitment, development, and retention of teachers, specifically special education teachers. Given the complexity of the issues surrounding the critical need for special education teachers, our focus is the development of collaborative approaches and strategies. This presentation will share resources and processes co-constructed and implemented by educators from a university personnel preparation program and school districts.

Presenters: Melanie Sanders & Liana Arnette

Teaching has never been more complex than it is today. Educators are tasked with implementing high leverage practices for students with disabilities, exemplary teaching practices for students learning English, and evidence based strategies for students of poverty, all within the UDL framework.  Participants will explore the connections between each of these best practices and will leave with actionable strategies that they can utilize immediately in order to meet the needs of ALL students.