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• What's New

• Aspiring Teachers
• Certification
• Early Career Educators
• Educators New to Florida

• New Teacher Tutorial
  An online tutorial for new teachers' professional learning is available as soon as you register. To register and get a username and password, click the "Register for Full Access" link to the right.

  New Teacher Tutorial

• Substitute Teachers
  Click to get to the Substitute Teachers' professional learning.

  Substitute Teachers

• Learning Library (resources, tools, and collegial assistance)
  Click to get to the Learning Library, or click the "Return to Resources" button in the right-side menu.

  Learning Library (resources, tools, and collegial assistance)

StartWithSuccess.org (SWS) is managed by the Florida Department of Education, Educator Quality Division. SWS content is aligned with content on other websites maintained by the Department of Education:

• Florida School Leaders.org
  https://www.floridaschoolleaders.org/
• Teach in Florida
  http://www.teachinflorida.com/
• Florida Department of Education
  http://www.fldoe.org/

What the site does: SWS provides information and professional learning resources for members of the Florida education family who are new to the profession or are in situations which provide limited access to the professional learning systems provided thru Florida's school districts. This new version of SWS, launched in December, 2010, provides information, training, and portals to a broad array of sites useful to SWS users.

History: The original version of SWS, StartwithSuccess.com, was developed for the Department by Paradox Learning Systems in 2005-2006. It focused on orientation information for beginning teachers and substitutes. The site, unchanged until 2010, was hosted at a private provider's site.

The New SWS: In 2010 site hosting was moved to the Florida Center for Interactive Media (FCIM) in Tallahassee and redesign, expansion, and updating of the site was initiated by the Florida Department of Education's Division of Educator Quality. Programming and site maintenance functions are now provided by FCIM.

This new site, StartWithSuccess.org, replaced the original ".com" version in June, 2011. Learning tools, resources, and modules were added as regular features of the site. In addition to continuing to serve the interests of new teachers, content was added for a wider range of users (e.g. aspiring teachers, teachers new to Florida, mentor teachers). Information portals for all SWS users were added.

Over time, SWS content is updated and modified to reflect changing conditions and interests of SWS users.