Columbus Schools Have Created a Broad Range of Partnerships
The partnership programs that Columbus Schools are engaged in cover a wide range of disciplines, grade levels, and locations˳ There are several successful partnership programs in the Columbus Schools˳
“Computers Rock 24/7” is a partnership program focused on introducing technology to fourth and fifth grade girls to technology˳ Students in the program develop their own web pages and learn about computers from the inside out˳ This program is a partnership between Columbus Schools, Weinland-Hudson Elementary School, The Ohio State University Women in Technology, and The Women in Computer Engineering˳
“Modeling Physical Sciences in Ohio” is a program aimed at teacher development and training˳ This partnership program involved Columbus Schools, College of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at Ohio State, Ohio Board of Regents, and Worthington City Schools˳ This partnership program centered around a three-week workshop intended to train Columbus Schools teachers in better methods of instruction that will be more effective with students from a variety of levels and backgrounds˳ Ongoing Saturday workshops held throughout the school year will revisit the techniques used in the original workshop and help foster a cooperative bond between teachers˳
There are a number of literacy partnerships in several schools in the Columbus Schools system that addresses all manner of literacy difficulties and language arts development˳ One literacy partnership program involved two Columbus Schools’ elementary schools, Medary and Trevitt Elementary Schools, working with Ohio State Department of English˳ The “Medary and Trevitt Literacy Partnerships” aims to provide extra literacy tutoring to first graders˳ Students from Ohio State will work with Medary Elementary first grade students in a program where students receive reading help during school hours˳ The Trevitt Elementary School program will have the Ohio State student tutors working in all manner of language arts in a one on one after school program˳ The students have benefited greatly from the individual attention that can be provided˳
Another literacy partnership in the Columbus Schools is the Johnson Park Middle School Literacy Partnership˳ Started in the 2005-2006 school year, this program had Ohio Stat undergraduates from the Writing Program acting as advisors and mentors on the Johnson Park Middle School newspaper˳ The Johnson Park Middle School Literacy Partnership also had the students from Ohio State and Johnson Park Middle School working together to produce the monthly magazine “M,” a magazine for and about middle schools on the east side of Columbus˳ This literacy partnership was part of a larger project between Johnson Park Middle School and Ohio State, led by the P-12 Project˳
The “Africentric Literacy Program” is another tutoring cooperative between Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing in Ohio State’s College of Humanities and the Columbus Schools’ Africentric Elementary School˳ This program is now in its sixth year and has resulted in higher reading and writing test scores˳ The “Africentric Literacy Program” holds a special end of the year celebration in which the students in the program read selected writings from the year˳ All participating students in the program receive writers’ kits and a hardbound book of all the students’ work over the year˳
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