BCHF is continuing to explore ways to align its education and affordable housing work. In November, Stephanie Klupinski, our VP of Legal and Strategic Growth, presented at the Education Law Association conference in Orlando with Carlie Boos, the Executive Director of the Affordable Housing Alliance of Central Ohio, and Graham Bowman, an attorney with the […]
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Ian Maute, Vice President of Development, spoke at the 2022 Ohio Housing Conference as a panelist on: 30 at 30: Lessons Learned from First Wave of Projects Achieving the End of Extended Use Period.
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Alisa Regensburger, Assistant Director of Support Services, spoke on a panel at the Council for Affordable and Rural Housing conference. The panel, Service Coordinators On Your Properties – How to Make it Work, also featured Melissa Harris from the American Association of Service Coordinators along with Dana Knopp Krusz from Knopp Enterprises who moderated the
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Check out this wonderful outreach initiative from our Service Coordinator, Marianne! “In 2019, I brought an idea to the director of READ Jackson County about a town back home that was using Little Free Libraries in their community to promote reading and recycling books. He ran with the idea and today there are many Little
By Stan Nicol, M.ED., Data Analysis and School Accountability School Local Report Cards (LRC), released in September 2022 by the Ohio Department of Education, were composed of up to 6 components areas. The Gap Closing component measured how well schools were meeting established goals in English Language Arts (ELA), Mathematics (MTH), Graduation, English Learners, Gifted and
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By Brit Seward, School Improvement Representative, Mathematics Specialist Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Largest score declines in National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) mathematics in grades 4 and 8 since initial assessments in 1990.  This dismal headline comes from the Nation’s Report Card released in October 2022. The NAEP Mathematics Assessment measures students’ knowledge and
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By Joni Byus, Accountability and School Improvement Representative As the BCHF School Improvement and Compliance team members have been visiting schools for the biannual reviews this fall, school leaders have expressed a desire for information about how to incorporate writing into every classroom. It is imperative that students are writing every day in every class. Writing
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By Carol S. Young, Department Lead, Accountability and School Improvement This article is the second in a series about the teacher shortage and whether we can save a profession I love. I credit Meaghan Tobar at Dohn Community High School with the title. Thanks, Meaghan, for making me think about teaching as a career technical
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By Mindy Farry, School Improvement and Accountability Representative How do you gather evidence of teacher performance to coach, reflect, and eventually evaluate teachers? Formal observations, of course, give school leaders a great deal of information. In addition, conferencing with the teacher both before and after an observation also helps gather a more comprehensive picture of
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By Stan Nicol, M.ED., Data Analysis and School Accountability It has been two years since the Ohio Department of Education has produced a Local Report Card (LRC) with ratings. Because of the pandemic, ODE suspended both the overall and component ratings. This year, component areas will receive rankings, but not an overall rating. The last
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