Encouraging. Educating. Empowering.

The mission of the Consortium for Future Educators at UCF is to bring district leaders, lead teachers, administrative teams and post-secondary education supporters together to share best practices as it relates to the creation, growth and results of high school teaching academies.

Alignment of these best practices with key stakeholders will support the creation of shared resources, ideas and a strong network to build a community of practice that develops future teachers and supports recruitment and retention efforts with university partners.

About Us

UCF’s Consortium for Future Educators supports each district’s unique high school teacher academy, or grow-your-own initiative, in several ways.

  • Provides a centralized location and source for information sharing between district administrators and lead teachers who are in a variety of program stages from inception, recruitment, program growth and maintenance, and incentivizing hiring after college graduation.
  • Provides relevant and updated research about high school teaching recruitment programs and allows avenues for active research partnerships with UCF as Florida grow-your-own programs mature.
  • Provides opportunities for high school students and lead teachers in grow-your-own programs to attend a teaching conference at UCF with a specially designed track of sessions geared towards the high school curriculum about teaching and learning.

An A-Z list
of everything we wish we knew before starting our Senior Internship and 1st year of teaching.
- written by our Lake County Teacher Knights

In the News

UCF Consortium hosts Virtual Professional Learning Community sessions in response to COVID 19

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Growing Your Own Teachers

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Our Work

The following depicts the efforts and impact of the consortium’s early work to date:

Hosts bi-annual consortium meetings.
Hosts Future Teachers Conference for high school teaching academy students.
Presents at numerous local, state and national conferences.
Hosts virtual professional learning community meetings in response to COVID-19.

Supports the UCF Teacher Knights induction program for early career teachers.

Coming soon.

Partners

BrevardPublicSchools
UCF College of Community Innovation and Education
CitrusCountySchools
DistrictSchoolBoardOfSumterCounty
EducatorsRising
FloridaDepartmentOfEducation
LakeCountySchools
LakeSumterStateCollege
LakeWalesCharterSchools
MarionPublicCountySchools
MartinCountySchoolDistrict
Orange County Public Schools
PascoCountySchools
PolkCountyPublicSchools
SarasotaCountySchools
SchoolDistrictOfOsceolaCountyFL
SeminoleCountyPublicSchools
StJohnsCountySchoolDistrict
ValenciaCollege
VolusiaCountySchools
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