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Professional Development

Upcoming Workshops and Trainings

Statewide Online Tobacco Prevention and Intervention Teacher Training Project:

October 1, 2010 – May 31, 2011. Enrollment begins September 24, 2010. Highlights of the online course:
  • Available to K-12 teachers and guidance staff
  • Includes effective teaching strategies and integrated approaches for delivering tobacco prevention education
  • Integrated lessons for science, social studies, language arts, math, health, and physical education
  • No fees associated with the online course
  • Convenient 24/7 online access
  • Technical support available
  • Districts may award up to 60 in-service points toward teacher recertification

Florida HEAP

About HEAP: The Health Education Assessment Project is a collaborative of over 20 states whose purpose is to support quality and effective health education. HEAP is a part of the State Collaborative for Accountability and Student Standards (SCASS) which falls under the umbrella of the Council of Chief State School Officers (state commissioners of education).

HEAP does not train a teacher how to teach health education but enhances the skills of the teacher so that he or she teaches health education at an increasingly higher level which has a greater impact on student skill acquisition and use. The teacher shares the role of learning by facilitating student growth. The student increasingly becomes the director of his or her learning by use of critical thinking and discovery.

HEAP consists of a variety of tools which help the teacher determine whether a student has truly mastered and acquired a health skill(s). Tools consist of:

  • Health Education Lesson Planning Template
  • Performance Task Samples and Templates
  • Anchor Papers (short and extended response)
  • Scoring Rubrics
  • Searchable Database of Assessment Items (level of difficulty, etc., over 1440 items)
  • Web-based Assessment

An additional tool is the HEAP of Books which uses story books/trade books/readers/novels found in the K-12 classroom or media center that are used in conjunction with other subject areas. Instruction can be enhanced to include health education concepts and skills that are located in any type of book a person reads, whether fiction, non-fiction, or an instruction manual.

Training in HEAP or HEAP of Books

Heap of Books (aka Health and Reading) Training: Updates to include Common Core and Informational Text

The Health Education Assessment Project (a State Collaborative on Assessment and Student Standards member project of the Council of Chief State School Officers) continues to improve to better meet the needs of our teachers and students. The Council of Chief State School Officers (organization for state commissioners of education) and the National Governor’s Association took the lead on the development of the Florida adopted Common Core Standards for English, Language Arts and Mathematics. As part of our national effort, the HEAP has begun working on integrating the Common Core Standards into the HEAP of Books training and training materials. An additional focus is on incorporating into the training articles centered on middle and high school students reading health education-related informational text. The training continues to be eight hours in length. If you are interested in hosting a training in your district, please contact Dr. Antionette Meeks at or by telephone at 850-245-0480. The training is open to all school and grade levels, as well as any subject area. Substitute teacher pay is reimbursed for a work-day scheduled training. Stipends are offered for training scheduled on a Saturday. An optional twelve-hour implementation phase also continues to be offered.

Other Training Opportunities:

Some national professional organizations, such as the American Association for Health Education and the American School Health Association offer continuing education opportunities as well as annual conferences supporting the health educator’s professional development needs.