CPALMS is a unique platform developed by LSI to support K-12 education in Florida and used by millions from all around the globe. More than 260,000 K-12 Florida educators and approximately three million Florida students actively use CPALMS to access educational resources, information to help them teach and learn, and software applications to support them throughout. CPALMS is the State of Florida’s official source for standards information and course descriptions. It provides access to thousands of standards-aligned, high-quality instructional and educational resources designed specifically to support standards-based instruction.
CPALMS.org is home to 500+ Perspectives Videos, which are standards-aligned short (~5-min.) video resources highlighting experiences and ideas from experts, teachers, professionals, and skilled enthusiasts. This year, CPALMS provided math teaching perspective videos that support teachers' professional learning with teaching ideas, common misconceptions, and hands-on approaches to teaching math standards.
CPALMS also offers more than 13,000 high-quality educational resources developed by FSU faculty and K-12 educators. CPALMS features unique resources like 500+ Model Eliciting Activities (MEA), which allows students to apply their knowledge in real-life applications where problem-solving and critical thinking take the lead. Since CPALMS started offering educational resources, more than one billion resource views/downloads have been delivered. During the last year, CPALMS had more than 70 million resources delivered to Florida’s educators and students.
CPALMS also features over 1,300 Original Student Tutorials which are interactive online lessons for students to explore math, science, English language arts, and social studies content. The development of these tutorials is a collaboration between K-12 educators, subject specialists, instructional designers, graphic designers, narrators, and others who collectively spend 200-400 labor hours to create each tutorial. During the last year, several tutorials crossed a million views.
To meet the needs of teachers and students, CPALMS continues to innovate and provide new types of resources. The newest resources are Interactive Research Pages, which support K-5 students’ development of independently using digital tools to research a variety of grade-appropriate interdisciplinary topics that showcase a variety of literacy skills like using text features, building vocabulary, and scaffolded notetaking.
