Who We Are
Flamingo Early Learning's Integrated System Offers:
Self-Paced Courses
Competency-based, job-embedded online professional learning courses are fully self-guided cover child health, safety, social and emotional development. Each course is aligned with state and national standards and provides 0.1-0.2 CEUs.
Instructor-Led Courses
Competency-based, job-embedded online and blended professional learning courses are led by a University of Florida instructor and cover a variety of critical topics in early childhood education. Each course is aligned with state and national standards and provides 2.0 CEUs.
Child Development Associate (CDA) Pathway
Our specified path of courses satisfies the 120-hour training requirement to earn a CDA, the most common earned credential in early childhood education, and the first step in career advancement.
Spanish Instructor-Led Courses
Select instructor-led courses are delivered completely in Spanish with support from a Spanish-speaking University of Florida instructor. Each course is aligned with state and national standards and provides 2.0 CEUs.
Individualized Coaching Support
Participants in our instructor-led courses with the coaching option received intensive coaching from University of Florida certified early learning coaches. Our coaching model takes a teacher-centered, strengths-based approach, focusing on practice and performance to develop and improve instruction.
Communities of Practice (CoP)
Participants in courses with the Communities of Practice option have the opportunity to collaborate with peers to reflect on course content, applied strategies, and data through discussions and protocols guided by UF certified facilitators.
Certified Early Learning Coaching Program
Our job-embedded certification develops the skills of early childhood leaders and quality improvement specialists by training participants on the fundamentals of coaching, goal-setting, modeling effective practice, collecting data, and conducting coaching conversations.
Certified Communities of Practice (CoP) Facilitator Program
This intensive certification program focuses on developing communities of practice, a collective learning process, and builds the skills of educational leaders to facilitate the development of CoPs.
Impact
Since 2015, Flamingo Early Learning has delivered over 400,000 hours of professional development to more than 30,000 early childhood educators across Florida and has expanded to other states, including California, Louisiana, and Georgia.
A study conducted in partnership with Yale University found that teachers engaged in our professional development courses and supports demonstrated significant improvement in teacher-child interactions, teacher knowledge and practice, and child outcomes:
79% improvement in teacher-child interactions after engaging in just 20 hours of Flamingo Early Learning professional development*.
* As measured by CLASS® Pre-K Instructional Domain scores
Improved teacher knowledge by up to 82%.
Significant positive effects on children’s social-emotional, physical, language, and cognitive growth and development for those with teachers engaged in Flamingo Early Learning.
26% higher growth rate of improvement across four domains of child development as measured by GOLD® Child Assessments when compared with children of non-participating teachers.
