Educator Quality
The Division of Educator Quality (EQ) includes programs that perform fundamental roles in assuring that every Florida student receives an education that makes him or her college- and career-ready. Our work in EQ includes leaders with responsibility for statewide oversight and support of:
- Educator Preparation for Teachers and Leaders
- Educator Recognition
- Educator Recruitment
- Certification to ensure that all educators are professionally qualified
- School District Professional Development Systems
- Performance Evaluation Systems for Teachers and Leaders
- Educator Professionalism consistent with the Principles of Professional Conduct for the Education Profession in Florida
- Certification processes, including ensuring all requirements of law are met, for new and renewing educators
- Information and resources for educators via the Just for Teachers Community
Our work, as a team, is summarized best by our Four Core Values which include:
- Being responsive
- Doing good work and expanding the capacity of others to do the same
- Serving as critical friends
- Demonstrating honesty, respect and integrity
We use these values to guide our work so that students in Florida, every day, in every school, have a teacher that is as good as the best we ever had.
Our ultimate goal is for all Florida teachers and leaders to be professionally prepared, developed, supported and supervised by educators who are making teaching better.