Presentation Templates

Headings are set in Lora; body text in Source Sans 3.

Both are free, open-source Google Fonts, built directly into the template — nothing to install, in PowerPoint or Google Slides.

However, if you have trouble and prefer to install fonts on your machine, see the links below.

Download Fonts

Instructions for Installing Fonts

Open the .potx file directly, or in PowerPoint go to File > New > Custom > and select the OCPS 2030 template. This opens a fresh presentation with the template's layouts available, starting on a blank Title Slide.

Fill in the Title Slide's title and subtitle, then add new slides using the Layout picker (Home > New Slide, or Layout) — every OCPS layout is available there, organized in the groups described below.

Content layouts — the ones you'll use most — combine three choices: a background system, a colorway, and a content type.

Bottom — a color bar runs across the bottom of the slide; the rest is full-width for your content. Best for text-heavy slides or when you don't have a strong photo.

Photo — a tinted photo strip runs down the right side. Best when a real photo adds value and you have less text to fit.

Solid — the same footprint as Photo, but a flat color instead of a photo. Use it for the graphic rhythm of a side strip without a specific photo.

None of these is "more correct" than another — pick based on how much text you have and whether a photo genuinely adds to the slide. Don't force a photo in just to use the Photo system.

Within each system and colorway, four content types are available:

• Title and Content — a single title and body text box. The default choice for most slides.
• Two Content — title plus two side-by-side text boxes, for comparisons or parallel lists.
• Picture with Caption — a large picture placeholder with a small italic caption line below it. Click the placeholder to insert your own photo.
• Title Only — just a title, no body content. Useful for a section break within a deck that doesn't need a full Section Header slide, or a slide that's mostly a chart/table you're pasting in.

Pick the content type first based on what you're presenting, then pick the system (Photo/Solid/Bottom) and colorway.

Color is for visual variety across a deck, not a coding system — there's no rule that a color means a particular topic.

Use color to keep a multi-slide deck visually varied, not to encode meaning the audience is expected to decode.

The template's type, spacing, and margins were deliberately locked down so decks stay consistent without every slide needing a design judgment call. Please don't override these, even when it's tempting:

• Don't resize or reposition the title, body, image, or caption placeholders. Their sizes account for exact margins against the photo/color strip — moving them can push text under the strip or off the visible slide.
• Don't manually change body text size. Bullet levels (up to three) are already sized to step down predictably — Level 1 at 26pt, Level 2 at 24pt, Level 3 at 22pt. Use Tab/Shift+Tab to change levels rather than resizing text.
• Bullets are round dots at every level. Levels are told apart by size and indent, not by different bullet characters — don't switch a sub-bullet to a dash or different symbol.
• Don't recolor text by hand. Title and body colors are already set per layout for correct contrast against each background.
• If text is overflowing a box, shorten the text rather than shrinking the font past what AutoFit already does automatically.

Every Content and Section Header layout already carries the OCPS logo mark and an automatic slide number in the bottom-right corner — you don't need to add either yourself.

Don't paste in an additional OCPS logo, watermark, or page number. Doing so typically creates a visible double-logo or a slide number that doesn't match the page count.

Use a Section Header slide to divide a long deck into named sections (for example, before switching topics in a board presentation). There are five colorways, matching the Content system's palette, each a full-bleed background with a large, centered title. Pick whichever colorway you haven't used recently in the same deck for visual variety.

Nine layouts are reserved for fixed, recurring district content: Vision, Mission, Values, Commitments, Prepare / Inspire / Empower, Portrait of a Graduate, Strategic Plan, Closing, and Blank. These are pre-built, full-bleed slides — the words you see (like "VISION" or the mission statement) are part of the background artwork itself, not editable text boxes.

Blank is the one exception: a genuinely empty white slide, provided as a plain canvas for anything that doesn't fit another layout (e.g. pasting in a complex chart).

Don't add a title, body text, or your own caption to a Full Bleed layout — there's no placeholder for it, and the design is intentionally locked. If content needs to change, that's a template update, not a per-deck edit.

Google Slides doesn't read a file's built-in fonts the way PowerPoint does — it matches fonts by name against its own font library instead. The good news: both Lora and Source Sans 3 are in Google's font library too, so a deck opened in Slides looks exactly like it does in PowerPoint, with no font substitutions.

If you ever see a different font in Slides, that's a sign the deck was built from an older, pre-2026 version of the template — get a fresh copy rather than fixing fonts by hand.

If a layout is missing that you need often, something looks wrong, or you need additinal help, contact Public Relations at PR@ocps.net.