Palm Bay Community Charter School

Our curriculum uses the best of national and state standards and a range of innovative and well recognized academic approaches to learning that have a solid record of success.

The curriculum focuses on clear and measurable expectations for student learning and covers the main subject areas of Reading/Language Arts Mathematics Social Studies Science Foreign Language Music Health Safety and Fitness Art Life Skills Character and Computer Education. Administrators and teachers will continually review academic results and adjust the curriculum to best meet the needs of each student.

The objectives and goals of the Schools educational plan are derived from the Florida Sunshine State Standards and the Next Generation Sunshine State Standards (NG-SSS) as adopted.

Palm Bay Community Charter School and Municipal High School will have the following processes in place to support the delivery of the curriculum:

Research-based instructional practices Continuous review of curriculum to ensure a years worth of learning of all state benchmarks Principal evaluation through weekly classroom visits/walk-throughs to ensure that all teachers are utilizing the best practices and implementing the instructional initiatives Weekly grade-level and monthly staff meetings Professional development workshops Before and afterschool tutoring for remediation and acceleration Targeted interventions for struggling students performing below grade level Integration of technology across all major disciplines

The curriculum will require students to interact with each other apply curriculum to real-life situations and use a variety of technological tools beyond the classroom.

Teachers will incorporate various teaching strategies to accommodate all learning styles. In accommodating individual learning styles and needs the Schools curriculum incorporates the following instructional practices:

Interdisciplinary Connections – Curricular decisions will be guided by the aim of thorough student mastery and achievement rather than by an effort merely to cover content. As teachers build on interdisciplinary connections students naturally begin to link information between and among courses increasing the relevancy of skills and content in such courses.

Differentiated and Standards-Based Instruction The Schools ultimate goal is to provide a learning environment that will maximize the potential for student success. Teachers will use differentiated instructional strategies that connect with individual student’s learning needs.

Behavior Management We believe that both teachers and students need to be provided with a consistent behavior management system so that maximum time can be spent teaching and learning. Behavior management based on a positive reward/point system will be in place in all classrooms from the beginning of the first year of operation.

Accountability – Teachers are required to document instruction of the Florida Sunshine State Standards (SSS) and Next Generation SSS an ELL strategies by completing daily lesson plans as well as records of weekly and monthlythematic unit plans. Lesson plans identify specific objectives taught and benchmarks met as listed in the curriculum. The Principal will check lesson plans weekly and conduct daily classroom walk-throughs to ensure that reading and other curricular objectives are being met and documented in each teachers lesson plan book and taught accordingly.

Technology – The School plans to instill high-tech teaching tools in the classrooms like SMART or Promethean boards plus other hardware and peripherals to increase staff teacher parent and student access to a wide range of advanced equipment that facilitates operations improves instruction and encourages the use of 21st Century technology.

Palm Bay Municipal Charter High Schools commitment to a college preparatory academy dictates a curriculum of high rigor and relevance in the core subject areas.

The program includes study skills career exploration a core of common learning and emphasis in the development of higher level thinking skills. The goal is to expand the students knowledge base in each succeeding grade level — always moving forward and building upon the preceding acquired knowledge to ensure the student builds capacity and is college ready and college bound.

The goal is to prepare all students for success in postsecondary education and therefore will ensure all students meet and/or exceed the requirements for high school graduation including mastery of all respective state standards.

The curriculum is designed to serve students of all ability levels and therefore students in need of remediation or not making adequate progress towards mastery of the Next Generation Sunshine State Standards and/or students with special learning needs will have access to supervised study time and tutoring services during non-school hours (i.e. after school and Saturday mornings) and whenever possible to accelerate and/or remediate student achievement.