Public School Partnership Advisory Committee Projects in Progress

Below are the advisory committee's original goals and the projects that are being developed to address those goals.

1. Ohio State faculty visits to public school classrooms

2. Teaching partnerships to think through classroom practices
Byrd Polar Research Center/New Albany Science Program Partnership
A team consisting of Carol Landis, BPRC; Loren Somerlot, Bill Somerlot, Jon Stonebraker, and Andy Moore, NAHS; Nancy Nestor-Baker, OSU P-12; and Mindy Wright, ASC Community Partnerships has been developing a pilot that connects high school science students with scientists and research of the Byrd Polar Research Center.

During spring 2008, Loren Somerlot and Carol Landis will begin piloting specific activities that involve face-to-face visits by NAHS students to BPRC as well as electronic connections. While this pilot is centered at NAHS, the project works with students from a career center district. The goal of this pilot is two-fold:

To develop a workable project between these two sites
To develop a model on which we can build other partnerships among schools and Ohio State units across disciplines.

3. Middle and high school student visits to Ohio State’s campus in the context of ongoing relationships.
Work on a proposal to fund middle school trips to science and humanities visits to campus
Breakfast of Science Champions
November 7, 2007
February 20, 2008
April 29, 2008
Humanities Day pilot May 16
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
Digital Union workshops