Learn how the OCPS system works in 8 monthly half-day sessions
Leadership Orange is your opportunity to learn about what it takes to educate 203,000 students every day. From peeks into the classroom to driving a school bus, you will gain a new appreciation for how a public school district runs and the people dedicated to the students it serves.
You will learn about the quality and breadth of opportunities afforded our children. You will also see and hear about the challenges the nation's 10th-largest school district faces as it pursues its vision to be the top producer of successful students in the nation.
Eight half-day sessions cover every facet of the school system with behind the scenes tours, hands-on demonstrations, student interaction, and quality time with the experts in their fields.
Sessions are held monthly (typically the third Friday of the month) starting in September, from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at schools and facilities all across the county. Call Marketing and Events at 407.317.3368 for more information.
Here is a look at the monthly agenda for each session:
September: Who are all these important people?
Public Schools: The Leadership and the Organization
Introduction and overview of the Orange County Public Schools district
Exercise: How to Build a School Year Calendar
October: How students are taught and how they learn
Teaching and Learning: The Big Picture
Florida Standards: how we teach and how students learn
Digital Learning Initiative
November: District Operations
Operations Division: Making Everything Run Right and On Time
Safety, Environmental, Transportation, Food Service
Doing Business with OCPS
Exercise: Driving a School Bus
December: Every child matters, every child learns
Exceptional Student Education: Gifted to Autism to Physically Impaired
Case studies of students with disorders and disabilities
Tour of school accommodations for ESE students
Round table with employers, parents and ESE students
January: The troops on the ground
School Site Management
School leadership
Student discipline, explained
School choices: magnets, charter, and virtual schools
Minority Achievement Office
School Transformation Office
February: Reinvent yourself
Career and Technical Education: Where New Jobs are Born
Business and industry collaboration
Profession-specific classroom and lab visits
March: Professionals who aren't the teachers
Budget, Facilities, Legal, and Student Enrollment
The building program at full throttle
Where the money comes from, and where it goes
Exercise: How Principals Build a School Budget
April: Success through families and the communities
Community Resources: Business Partners, Volunteers and Recognition
How critical school needs are met
Parent and business partner heroes
Face-to-face time with district leadership
May: Graduation
Held during regular School Board Meeting
To apply go here. The deadline is August 11th.
