"The Ohio Department of Education offers you free downloads of two dynamic videos about important new education standards that will blaze the path to better futures for America's students. Suitable for presentation at teacher meetings, parent nights, PTA meetings, association conferences and community events, they can stimulate great conversation about why the standards are necessary and how classroom teaching and learning will change."
The State Board of Education of Ohio recognizes parents and families as children's first and most important teachers. When parents enroll their children in school, from preschool through high school, the responsibility of education and care is shared with the school and the community. Partnerships among families, schools and communities that are child-centered and family-strengthening can engage, guide and motivate students to be productive citizens in a global society.
Our virtual reality tour of a Family Friendly Partnership School combines the concepts of architecture and improvement planning for a sustained program of actions by educators and families.
This site was created to illustrate a variety of elements that might be present in your Family Friendly Partnership School. The virtual reality tour of our Family Friendly Partnership School offers:
* Suggestions/ideas on how to make your school family-friendly.
* Choices of activities that could be part of the school's comprehensive, goal-oriented school, family and community partnership program linked to student success.
"This blog is written by members of the Ohio Leadership Advisory Council (OLAC), a partnership between the Buckeye Association of School Administrators (BASA) and the Ohio Department of Education (ODE)."
"It's a dramatic departure for the state from a culture of having virtually all teachers receiving a good rating almost by default and with little commentary. By next school year, each teacher will be rated based on students' academic growth, usually measured on standardized tests, and on how teachers do in the classroom observations"
"We are pleased to announce that Thinkgate has been awarded the Ohio / Massachusetts Joint Statewide IIS contract to provide an instructional improvement solution for schools throughout the two states."
"The Ohio Department of Education is committed to providing a wide variety of documents in formats that can be easily viewed on popular electronic readers. This will include Ohio's new Model Curriculum and Academic Content Standards, which we are actively working to convert into e-reader files"