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The First Dual Language School in Alabama

Florecer provides a culturally diverse experience through two-way Spanish immersion to prepare students for success.

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The Future is Now and Forever in Our Hands

At Florecer Community School, our focus on multilingualism, community-centered innovation, and global pathways will support our mission of growing leaders that will flourish wherever they are planted.

We are seeking to align with national best practices of dual language and bilingual education and develop partnerships that support the advancement of our students and families. We will serve the Birmingham metro area.

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Our Vision

Florecer’s vision is simple; we are building strong student ambassadors and communities that flourish academically and emotionally, ultimately developing and leading with empathy and joy with their multilingual superpowers, while remaining curious and optimistic about the future and resilient as active changemakers.

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Our Mission

Florecer Community School (FCS) is a K-8 dual language immersion school that provides a culturally diverse and rigorous global learning experience to prepare ALL students to flourish as multilingual, multiliterate, high-achieving changemakers while sustaining audacious joy and a commitment to building an international community.

On’Draya Morris

Founder & CEO

On’Draya is committed to serving our diverse future generations and their families with the dignity and honor they deserve. Her leadership embodies her multicultural upbringing which led to her genuine love for all people and the desire to create transformational change through educational equity in our community.

Her vision is that Florecer will be a bridge through academic achievement and language immersion to a transformational future for all students in Alabama and across the nation.

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On’Draya Morris

On’Draya Morris

Founder & CEO

On’Draya began her intentional educator journey in 2009 working with the Children’s Defense Freedom School in Louisville, KY as a 4th grade Summer Reading Teacher. In 2013, she joined Teach for America Metro Atlanta Corps serving mostly black and brown students in Clayton County as an 11th grade English Teacher. Throughout her career she has supported students in all secondary grade bands. In 2015, she served in the South Bronx, as a 7th/8th grade Reading Teacher at Bronx Prep Middle School. In 2016, she served in Springfield, MA as a founding charter school ELA teacher/academic coach serving a mostly Spanish-speaking community.

She later served for 4 years in Gwinnett County GA at a diverse top performing middle school as an ELA teacher and DEI committee lead. In 2021, upon arriving in Birmingham she served as a middle school ELA teacher. Most recently she served on the founding leadership team of the first Aviation high school in AL, Alabama Aerospace & Aviation High School (AAHS), as the Dean of Culture & Instruction where she honed her charter school leadership experience.

On’Draya is committed to serving our diverse future generations and their families with the dignity and honor they deserve. Her leadership embodies her multicultural upbringing which led to her genuine love for all people and the desire to create transformational change through educational equity in our community.

Her vision is that Florecer will be a bridge through academic achievement and language immersion to a transformational future for all students in Alabama and across the nation.

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