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Academics

Academics

Orange County Public Schools is committed to ensuring every student graduates prepared and inspired for a thriving future. We empower students with a superior academic experience, essential life skills, and boundless opportunities.

On this page, you’ll find information about what our school offers to help lead all of our students to success. 

Subject Area Information

These pages contain curriculum, information, and resources for the subjects being taught in OCPS. Curriculum and standards are fluid, and therefore these sites serve as the official source of information for their respective areas.

Innovation Elementary utilizes Florida’s state curriculum standards (B.E.S.T. Standards) across core subjects like English Language Arts (ELA), Math, Science, and Social Studies. Instruction emphasizes inquiry-based learning, conceptual development, and differentiated support through small group instruction and MTSS (Multi-Tiered System of Support).

Teachers work collaboratively in professional learning teams (PLCs) with support from instructional coaches to plan, assess, and analyze student progress.

  • At Innovation Elementary, literacy is taught in a 90-minute reading block with additional time for MTSS support. Early grades focus on phonics and decoding while upper grades build comprehension, fluency, vocabulary, and evidence‑based writing aligned to state standards.

    Writing instruction includes the process of prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing, with exposure to diverse writing genres such as narrative, expository, persuasive, and opinion writing.

  • At Innovation Elementary, Math follows the CSA approach—Concrete, Semi-Concrete, Abstract—to ensure understanding before practicing. Lessons incorporate manipulatives, visuals, games, and digital supports. Tools like Successmaker are used to tailor instruction to individual student needs.

  • Science education integrates hands-on, inquiry-driven lessons weekly including labs, experiments, engineering design challenges, and real-world problem-solving. Science is delivered as part of a broader STEM curriculum embedded in core subjects.

  • Social studies instruction at each grade promotes global awareness, cultural understanding, and civic literacy through history, geography, economics, and political science themes.

  • At Innovation Elementary, we offer a special area rotation including art, music, physical education, and orchestra (4th and 5th grade). These areas reinforce and enrich academic learning and are interwoven into the weekly schedule rather than treated as optional extras  .

    Additionally, the school supports a range of enrichment activities including:

    • Academic and competition teams like Super STEM, Battle of the Books, Chess, Math, and Public Speaking.
    • Clubs such as art, theater, chorus, life skills, and dance team.

  • The MTSS framework fosters educational equity by systematically delivering individualized academic interventions to students needing support, while simultaneously providing enriching opportunities for those demonstrating mastery.

    To ensure all students can thrive, our MTSS behavior framework offers a tiered system of interventions, specifically designed to support students experiencing behavioral challenges.

    Differentiated instruction for gifted learners and inclusive supports for ESOL and exceptional student learners are delivered through push‑in and pull‑out services.