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SLL Book of the Quarter
This SLL initiative allowed every student to read and engage with a common text that promoted an SLL Essential Idea to
foster and strengthen their school community through a shared reading experience. Each quarter, schools incorporated
the books into their morning announcements. Some created school-wide displays of student work based on the SLL
Essential Idea. The SLL Essential Ideas for FY23 focused on connection, perseverance, bravery, and empowerment.

Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs/Prevention Programs

The Tobacco Prevention Program
The Tobacco Prevention Program is committed to student success by aggressively strategizing to end substance misuse
among youth in Florida. Over three years, the program impacted 18,741 students with substance misuse education
through infraction courses. The program also saved at least 13,581 instructional hours for students at schools that
have implemented the courses as an alternative to suspension. In Florida, 687 schools used the infraction courses as
an effective behavior intervention.

The Department of Safe Schools offers seven online alternative-to-suspension student courses and six prevention courses
to school personnel who work directly with students.

Student Courses
The Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs (ATOD) student courses are offered as an alternative-to-suspension option providing
two levels of support for elementary, middle, and high school students with discipline infractions for alcohol, tobacco, or
other drugs. Completing each appropriate student course means administrators hold days in abeyance instead of the whole
day out-of-school suspension as required by the Student Code of Conduct.

Adult Professional Development
The program seeks to build capacity among educators and school nurses to teach tobacco and vaping prevention lessons
by providing professional development and continuing education opportunities. Over 1,000 adult participants have shared
tobacco prevention education with more than 17,500 students.
Learners earn professional development points or continuing education credits by engaging in highly interactive lessons
that address common manipulative strategies, the health hazards of nicotine and tobacco use, and more. To complete each
course, participants share the information they learned with students.

CHAMPS Classroom Management System and Positive Behavior
Support

CHAMPS
In FY23, the Positive Behavior Support (PBS) team facilitated 76 training sessions for PBS and CHAMPS (Conversation, Help,
Activity, Movement, Participation, Success). These trainings encompassed 1,732 participants, while providing 258 side-by-side
coaching and non-evaluative classroom management supports for teachers. Participants attended bi-monthly District meetings
and narrowed their focus on particular disciplinary needs to create specific action plans for their schools using Multi-Tiered
System of Supports (MTSS) practices.
For example, the participants from Congress MS established significant shifts to ensure PBS practices and systems were
in place. As a result of PBS, the number of In-School Suspensions (ISS) decreased from 67 to 29, and the number of Out-of-
School Suspensions (OSS) decreased from 396 to 290.

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