Skip navigation, view page content

The Ohio State University

www.osu.edu

  1. Help
  2. Campus map
  3. Find people
  4. Webmail

  P-12 Project  
 

P-12 News and Events

P-12 Quicklinks

   

P-12 Updates

In this section we report on recent news and post announcements. To receive news and announcements by e-mail, please subscribe to our listserv.

P-12 Funded Projects Profiled

From 2004-2007, The Ohio State University P-12 Project supported a group of projects focused on important issues in preschool through 12th-grade education. Each project embodied core values of the university by igniting student learning, making discoveries, celebrating diversity, or opening new windows on the world of education. Each project moved us all a few steps closer toward that important goal of increasing students’ success. Success for All Students is a publication celebrating those projects.

Harambee Christian School-Ohio State Partnership

As part of an ongoing partnership coordinated by the P-12 Project, students and chaperones from Harambee Christian School in Columbus visited the Ohio State campus in Fall and Spring quarters. Fall 2007 visit; Spring 2008 visit; Photos

Survey of Financial Education in Ohio’s High Schools

This report by 2006 P-12 Scholar Cäzilia Loibl found that the majority of personal finance instruction was offered by three academic content areas: Family and Consumer Sciences, Business Education, and Social Studies. Approaches to the topic differed by content area, but all three were challenged by the lack of classroom time to teach personal finance topics and the lack of classroom materials. The survey was conducted just as the Ohio House of Representatives voted to mandate financial education in Ohio high schools. For the full report and more on P-12 Scholars -->

Summit on Educational and Economic Synthesis

The Ohio State University P-12 Project, The P-16 Initiative, and Action for Children hosted The Summit on Educational and Economic Synthesis in Central Ohio on May 22, 2007. More than 70 central Ohio community and educational leaders met for a working summit to:

  • Identify and discuss regional trends, data availability, and data needs in various sectors of Greater Columbus and Central Ohio
  • Lay the groundwork for a cross-sector, user-friendly, data-driven understanding of the patterns that are shaping the transitions within our region in order to enhance educational and economic capacity, including math, science and technology.

>>Summit materials (agenda, handouts, and presentations)

“CPS Day” on Campus

The Ohio State University joined with Columbus Public Schools (CPS) for “CPS Day” on Wednesday, May 16, 2007. The event is designed to show young students the opportunities for and advantages of higher education and the importance of staying in school. More than 3,000 sixth-grade students and staff from the Columbus Public Schools came to campus for an educational pep rally in Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium followed by a Buckeye baseball game vs. North Florida at Bill Davis Stadium.

The sixth graders were welcomed to campus by the Ohio State cheerleaders, mascot Brutus Buckeye, and members of the Ohio State band. CPS superintendent Dr. Gene Harris, student athletes, and students representing Young Scholars and "I Know I Can" encouraged the sixth graders to study and work hard and to think about and prepare for college. A special part of the pep rally included a rescue demonstration by ROTC with a helicopter landing on the field. The Ohio State students taking part represented various majors and potential careers.

Planning for the outreach effort involved Ohio State’s Department of Athletics, P-12 Project, Admissions/First-Year Experience, University Relations, Army ROTC, and Academic Affairs, as well as CPS and the Children’s Hunger Alliance.

Baseball Day was profiled in the publication Success for All Students. story (PDF, 279 KB); full document (PDF, 4MB).

Photos -->

Grants for Outreach and Engagement

Several University-wide initiatives make available dollars to support new and enhanced outreach and engagement projects. All faculty and staff are encouraged to apply for one or more of these grants programs that can help your unit implement its engagement mission. Visit http://outreachgrants.osu.edu for additional information on each grant.

Johnson Park Middle School Partnership

In the 2005-06 school year, Ohio State embarked on a university-wide partnership with Johnson Park Middle School (JPMS) in the Columbus Public Schools. Activities and projects were designed to increase JPMS student and parent awareness of opportunities for college attendance and to develop students’ academic skills, building on the Columbus Public School College Prep 101 program and the Ohio Department of Education State Standards for sixth, seventh, and eighth grades. The P-12 Project coordinated the efforts of 24 Ohio State colleges and departments, involving 113 faculty, staff, and students. Programs were delivered to 190 students, 12 teachers and staff members, and 21 parents.

Activities from 2005-2007 included:

  • A classroom-to-classroom cooperative for the writing and publication of a magazine about middle school, in which OSU students worked with JPMS students
  • A campus visit by JPMS students in October 2005 highlighting writing and writing technologies, along with an exploration of the fields of engineering and architecture
  • A campus visit in May 2006 exploring aspects of Allied Health careers
  • A campus visit in January 2007 featuring visits to Spanish, Archaeology, Pharmacy, and Dance and two special ongoing programs: JPMS after-school students learning about multimedia at the Digital Union and JPMS gifted and talented students partnering with the English Department on the production of a middle school magazine
  • A JPMS staff visit to campus for a workshop on possibility of shared technology
  • A special evening program for parents on financing college
  • OSU student volunteers for the JPMS Chess Club

JPMS students in the after-school digital media program had their projects displayed at WOSU@COSI on June 3, 2007. The classroom cooperative published M Magazine at the end of spring quarter.

JPMS and Ohio State staff have also participated in research, evaluation, and grant-writing activities to build a foundation for the future of the partnership as well as develop a model for partnership efforts with other urban middle schools.

The JPMS Partnership was profiled in the publication Success for All Students. JPMS story (PDF, 439 KB); full document (PDF, 4MB).

Community Connection

Community Connection is a free online volunteer recruiting and management database supported by The Ohio State University. OSU students may search and register for volunteer opportunities online, self-report volunteer hours, create an official OSU volunteer portfolio, and credit their service to a selected student organization. OSU faculty may monitor student volunteer productivity and act on behalf of a partnering organization to approve hours. Community organizations may also track volunteer productivity, approve volunteer hours online, contact volunteers, and produce a variety of volunteer service reports.

To use this online tool visit http://communityconnection.osu.edu/.

Principal's Office Website

The P-12 Project, in collaboration with the Interprofessional Commission of Ohio, jointly present the Principal's Office website. Content is largely supported by the Interprofessional Commission, while the P-12 Project offers its liaision expertise to extend the reach of the website to a broad, statewide audience of school administrators. The P-12 Project also supports the website itself, posting updates and managing the content. To view the site go to http://principalsoffice.osu.edu/

Subscribe to P-12 Listserv


If you would like to receive occasional e-mail messages about P-12 Project activities, events, newsletters, and other communication, please join our listserv or contact Cindy Overly at 614/688-0474.

back to top