We encourage students to work on team building skills and develop global citizenship.
Peer teaching, peer review and peer feedback are powerful classroom management strategies for focusing students. At the middle and high school level, cooperative learning strategies are being implemented. In grades 3-5, students are provided with project-based learning opportunities, which require that they make choices, plan a project from the beginning to end, and build responsibility to deliver the chosen project on time. The classrooms encourage and foster academic learning while providing children the opportunity to make choices and direct the path of their learning. Our K-3 program is guided by the philosophy and technique of Maria Montessori. The rapport between teacher and students and the role of the family in supporting the student’s development are critical to meeting our expectations for student success. The essential philosophy guiding the mission is the belief that all children can actualize their potential as productive and contributing members of society and that the school provides essential opportunities for students to develop the necessary skills for success. The innovative use of programming, curricula, and technology helps bond teachers and students toward instructional delivery methods that encourage problem solving and that pave the way for a future that is unfolding. The school community focuses on establishing healthy relationships, providing rigorous academic instruction, and offering extracurricular activities to ensure each student a school experience that is challenging, non-biased and inclusive. As a result of the combination of philosophies, academics, and environment, the School’s achievement data has been promising.
Odyssey Charter School meets high standards of achievement by offering a holistic educational model, which blends methodology that includes the Montessori approach to education in Kindergarten through 3rd grades with other compatible models such as research/project-based education for 3rd grade through high school. It should be noted that these achievements were realized while the school’s student population and staff tripled in size.ĭuring the 2011 school year, Odyssey became accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS), and was designated a 'High Performing Charter School' by the Florida Department of Education.
Their analysis of the students’ academic data since the School’s founding in 1999 was that our students are making strong and consistent achievement gains. Odyssey was one of 22 finalists from 12 states in the Charter School Growth Fund, a grant program sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to replicate successful charter school models.
Odyssey Charter School has been in existence since 1999 and grew from 112 students in a church building to over 700 students in a healthy, high-performance school building. We seek to educate the whole child with the understanding that each person must achieve a balance of intellectual, emotional, physical, spiritual and social skills as a foundation for life.
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The mission of Odyssey Charter School is to work in partnership with the family and community, with the aim of helping each child reach full potential in all areas of life.
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