Curriculum & Instruction
The vision of Marion County Public Schools is
“Leading the State in Raising Student Performance.”
The Curriculum and Instruction department includes Business Services, Career & Technical Education, Human Resources, K-12 Academic Services, Professional Development, School Development and Evaluation, Student Assignment & Records and Student Services. We are responsible for the curriculum and instructional needs of over 40,000 students, teachers and administrators. Our staff provides leadership and support to all our district’s forty-seven school sites. This team of many departments coordinates, articulates, and monitors state and federal law; district vision and strategic plan to schools; and facilitates an atmosphere of quality customer service to all our schools.
The Curriculum and Instruction Department:
- Develops and monitors staffing plan for all school sites
- Develops and monitors budgets for all departments
- Develops and monitors Supplemental Academic Plans
- Provides Staff Development training for 5,000 employees
- Develops and monitors Performance Appraisal system for instructional and administrative staff
- Facilitates and monitors district and state assessment system
- Provides leadership to site-based Guidance Counselors
- Facilitates and monitors district Continuous Improvement Model
- Facilitates curriculum guides and Sunshine State Standards
- Facilitates and monitors Title I and all grant funds
- Provides leadership, support and monitors all Exceptional Student Education
- Provides leadership, support and monitors all Discipline Alternative Education programs
- Monitors and updates the Student Progression Plan
- Provides direction for instructional materials used in all classrooms
- Supports all school library/media centers and maintains Teachers' Professional Library
