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Table of Contents

1. Inaugural Meeting
2. Goals
3. Next Steps
4. Founding Committee Members
5. Teacher Postings
6. Ohio State Opportunities
7. Ohio State Opportunities PDF

ASC Public School Partnership Advisory Committee News

Inaugural Meeting

January 11, 2007
A small group of public school teachers and Ohio State faculty held the committee’s inaugural meeting to discuss how we might explore opportunities for public school teachers and Ohio State faculty in the five liberal arts colleges (Colleges of the Arts, Biological Sciences, Humanities, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, and Social and Behavioral Sciences) to work together on projects of mutual interest, such as professional development, cooperative research, campus visits, cooperative teaching, etc.

The group consisted of middle and high school teachers from seven central Ohio school districts in the subject areas of art, English/language arts, foreign languages, information science, and social studies. (Two teachers in humanities and math were unable to attend.) These teachers were joined by Ohio State faculty and administrators from across the arts and sciences and involved in university-p-12 partnerships.

Our discussion centered on four kinds of opportunities for developing two-way partnerships between public school teachers and their students and Ohio State faculty and students. Below are those four categories as well as some initial possible activities. It will be the mission of this committee to develop a fully-integrated set of activities to develop these partnership opportunities.

1) Ohio State faculty visits to public school classrooms.

Goals: Together, teachers work directly with students on activities that are co-designed. Some of these projects might also be extended through use of technology. In the next few years, the Ohio Third Frontier Network (TFN) will allow universities and public schools across the state to connect inexpensively and efficiently through a high-speed fiber-optic network called OARnet, the networking division of the Ohio Super Computer Center.

Possible Activities:

• Discussing college expectations and how to prepare for them
• Fine arts faculty (such as Ann Hamilton) “speaking to their art,” discussing topics such as where their inspiration comes from. These artists might work with students to create a project together.
• Team teaching in which high school students might begin work on a problem or project and then be visited by Ohio State faculty to look at it more closely or work through later stages of the problem.

2) Teaching partnerships to think through classroom practices.

Goals: This work might include revaluation of curriculum or cooperatively developed action research.

Possible Activities:

• Focus on middle schools as crucial years for student learning and development of attitudes about future goals
• Creation of new partnerships through the Partnership Advisory Committee. A possible example is Saturday morning workshops where public school teachers and Ohio State faculty meet periodically to discuss best practices in a particular subject or around a particular topic. Administrators might nominate a district teacher to attend such workshops and bring information back to colleagues.
• Participation in existing programs such as the Foreign Language Center’s Collaborative Articulation and Assessment Project, the ICAM interactive online modules for physical sciences, Department of Physics Modeling Workshops.
• A variation of these partnerships might include Project GRO’s system for matching public school teachers with Ohio State science researchers.

3) Middle and high school student visits to Ohio State’s campus in the context of ongoing relationships.

Goals: These visits should provide students the opportunity to become comfortable with college settings.

Possible Activities:

• Some of the activities developed as part of the P-12 led Johnson Park Middle School/Ohio State Partnership might serve as beginning models for such visits.
• Workshops with the College of Pharmacy on diabetes and careers in pharmacy,
• An exploration of Spanish through technology and culture,
• A hands-on experience in which students re-construct pottery shards to learn how archeologists make meaning from ancient artifacts at the Museum of Classical Archaeology.
• Activities at other museums on Ohio State’s campus, including the Geology Museum, Biological Sciences Greenhouse, etc.
• Project GRO’s high school student research lab internships.

4) Shepherding a process for learning about available resources at Ohio State and in public school districts and sharing it with our colleagues in systematic ways.

Next Steps

We will begin to pilot some of the projects discussed at our first meeting. Currently, Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing and Mindy Wright are working with Mike Morbitzer of Hamilton-Local to pilot a classroom visit to talk about college expectations.

Founding Committee Members

Current Committee Directory (including new members)

Ohio State Resources

Teacher Postings

In future issues, advisory committee members can post information or announcements about events or projects at their schools or in their districts that might be of interest to other members. If you have such a posting, please send it to Mindy Wright, at wright.7@osu, and I’ll include it in the next issue.

Ohio State Opportunities

• Ohio State Opportunities

Below is contact information about some of the programs discussed at our inaugural meeting, as well as information about other upcoming projects on Ohio State’s campus. If the kind of connection you are looking for is not listed below, please contact Mindy Wright at (614) 688-5557 or wright.7@osu.edu, and I’ll do my best to help set up a connection for you. You may also want to look at the web site for Ohio State’s P-12 Project. Soon there will be a link to their program summary of Ohio State and public school partnerships across the state.

College Exploration/Preparation

Be Ready for College
Central Ohio Consortium for Early College Outreach (a partnership among Ohio State, Capital University, Columbus State Community College, Ohio Dominican University, Otterbein College, and Ohio Wesleyan) offers an interactive presentation describing the steps to college. This presentation is designed for parents and guardians of middle school students. To schedule these presentations, please call (614) 688-4488.

Arts

Wexner Center for the Arts
Strategies for Meaning Making in Art
March 8, 2007
Join Sydney Walker, Ohio State associate professor of art education and author of Teaching Meaning in Artmaking, as she introduces the work of Glenn Ligon.
For more information about this workshop and others, visit the Wexner Center Programs for Teachers.

Other Partnerships in the College of the Arts

English/Language Arts

2007 DMAC Institute
May 31- June 12, 2007
The Ohio State University's Department of English and the Digital Media Project are hosting a two-week institute on the effective use of digital media in college composition classrooms. Participants will explore a range of contemporary digital literacy practices—alphabetic, visual, audio, and multimodal—and apply what they learn to the design of meaningful assignments, syllabi, curricula, and programs.

Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing Teacher Seminars
CSTW offers Saturday morning seminars for middle and high school teachers throughout the academic year. This year’s upcoming seminars include “What’s Writing Got to Do with It?: Learning to Write and Writing to Learn in Every Discipline,” 2/17/07. Visit the link above for information about the seminar scheduled for March.

OhioWINS Summer Institute (English 694W)
“Creativity Live! Constructing Language Arts Curricula that Get Students Motivated, Moving . . . and Prepared”
June 11-15, June 18-22 2007
6 credit hours at no cost to participants
Kay Halasek

What creative, innovative, pedagogical approaches might high school English language arts teachers use to at once engage their students and prepare them to meet and exceed the benchmarks set by the Ohio ELA Standards and the challenges of writing in the workplace and at the university? This one very complex and challenging question stands as the foundation for the 2007 OSU OhioWINS Summer Institute.

Post-Institute Workshops. OhioWINS at Ohio State is dedicated to ongoing professional development workshops with institute participants. To this end, OhioWINS at Ohio State will offer quarterly post-institute workshops to all participants. We anticipate that these workshops will be offered in the autumn (October/November), winter (February), and spring (April) of 2007 and 2008. Because the scheduling and content of the workshops are determined in collaboration with the participants themselves, the dates and topics of the workshops have not yet been determined.

Teaching and Learning, Reading and Writing Disability Autobiography:
An Interactive Workshop
Tuesday, February 27
4:30 - 8:30p.m.
311 Denney Hall, 174 W. 17th Avenue
Dinner Provided. Course Credit Available.
Georgina Kleege, Assistant Professor of English at UC Berkeley
Brenda Brueggemann, Associate Professor of English at Ohio State

In this workshop, we will examine a diverse selection of disability memoirs and consider both what they reveal about cultural attitudes toward disability and what they have in common with other forms of autobiography. For more information, please contact Sarah Smith at smith.2447@osu.edu

Foreign Languages

World Media and Culture Center
Information provided by Rebecca Bias (bias.3@osu.edu)
Foreign Language Center Hypermedia Studio
160 Hagerty Hall
1775 College Road
Columbus, OH 43210-1340
(614) 688-3953

Foreign language study is of vital importance in the contemporary world, which has been profoundly changed by the forces of globalization. Knowledge of foreign languages enhances the well-being of the people of Ohio and the global community through the creation and dissemination of knowledge.

The World Media and Culture Center, located in Hagerty Hall, is comprised of a variety of complimentary resources: the Experimental Classroom, the Crane Satellite Café (broadcasting 22 international channels in 12 languages), an Individualized Instruction Center for study in one of 8 languages, the Kermit L. Hall Videoconference Center for distance language learning, the OIT Student Computing Lab, the FLC Studio for language software development, and various interactive and informational websites.

The Foreign Language Center of the WMCC houses the Collaborative Articulation and Assessment Project (CAAP), an organization of extreme importance to high schools and their language instructors and students. CAAP was founded in 1992 and now includes over 100 members around Ohio. It serves as a means of improving communication between high school teachers and university language instructors. One of the main goals of CAAP is to facilitate the language student’s smooth transition from level to level and from high school to university.

CAAP online practice tests and Early Assessment Measures Exams are available to member schools, and give students of third-level French, German, and Spanish the opportunity to practice their skills and obtain valuable feedback in the categories of reading, listening, and writing.

Major Media is a two-week summer workshop sponsored by the Foreign Language Center and SBC. The implementation of new technologies, such as the Internet and other audio/visual formats into foreign language teaching, requires new forms of media literacy as instructors adapt these new technologies for classroom use and repurpose them for teaching.

This workshop allows participants to integrate technological literacy into multimedia training. The participants first explore the formal operations and reception, in both the target culture and abroad, of each new medium. Then, for the remainder of the workshop, groups of participants create content-based, online modules for eventual classroom application as they adapt and manage new media pieces using the latest web design software. Topics covered include: media literacy, visual literacy, film literacy, and informational literacies and cultures; culture-specific Internet and audio-visual resources, audio/visual capturing and editing, photo-editing, and web site design and production.

FLORC (Foreign Language Ohio Resource Center) is an online resource for teachers and educators. FLORC’s goal is to provide lessons, tests, and resources that will make the Ohio Foreign Language Standards come alive in Ohio’s language classroom and help students become proficient in another language and culture.

FLORC resources:
Provide easy access to model standards-based lessons
Offer model assessments for classroom use
Link theory to best practices
Answer frequently asked questions
Encourage outreach and advocacy

If you have questions about any of the information provided above, or about any of the WMCC projects, please contact Rebecca Bias at bias.3@osu.edu.

Social Studies

History Teaching Institute
The History Teaching Institute functions as the P-16 portal of the Harvey Goldberg Program for Excellence in Teaching and has a proven record of success in delivering high quality professional development and training to Ohio's public school teachers. Through a combination of College Board-Certified AP Summer Institutes, faculty initiatives, and Teaching American History Grant Collaborations, the History Teaching Institute links one of the nation's leading academic history departments to the shifting landscape of K-12 education in Ohio.

OSU International P-12 Projects
Global Hotspots Workshop
February 15-March 15
The Ohio State University Area Studies Centers invite teachers to participate in a five-session workshop on international events and issues currently in the news. The workshop series will take place on consecutive Wednesday evenings from February 14 to March 14, 2007, 4:30 - 7:30p.m.

Museum of Classical Archaeology
We invite teachers at all levels of the curriculum to arrange a class visit to the museum or encourage their students to come anytime during public opening hours. This includes teachers at Ohio State, but also those in K-12 in central Ohio. We invite you to stop by the museum yourself and look at the material we have on display and on our storage shelves. You can also talk with a member of our staff about how we can plan something special for them. Classes in ancient civilization, history, and art will certainly want to plan a visit to the museum, but classes in many other areas can also benefit from the displays that focus on problem-solving, methods, or how we can learn about the past from material evidence.

Math and Sciences

Outreach in the College of Mathematical and Physical Sciences

• Early Mathematics Placement Testing Program

Outreach in the College of the Biological Sciences

• Department of Molecular Genetics
• Department of Plant Cellular and Molecular Biology