It has proved to be a highly successful program in meeting the needs of students at risk in the area of literacy skills. Florey won the inaugural National Literacy Week Award in 1999. The philosophy behind FLIP lies in the belief that all children in our school can learn and that we should have high expectations of their achievements. The best outcomes for children can only be achieved through the employment of quality teaching and learning strategies. Teachers must take a high level of responsibility for the educational outcomes of their students and should employ best practice teaching strategies to achieve high standards.
All teachers work with guided reading groups, focused on books at a certain reading level.
Teachers strive to reach benchmarks for their student's reading achievement. Explicit teaching refers to the fact that children are not left to learn reading strategies and skills incidentally. With FLIP, they are explicitly told and shown how to read using such strategies. A major component of FLIP is the parent involvement that takes place, both at school and in the home. Students from K-2 are required to take a home reader with them at the end of each day.