Join us for the first Urban Network meeting of 2022.
The meeting will be held virtually. Please follow this link to register for the free event and receive your Zoom invitation.
Date: Mar. 3, 2022
Time: 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.
The Urban Network meeting is open to all board members, superintendents, treasurers and other staff of Ohio urban school districts. It is the premier advisory voice to OSBA,…
The Capital Conference learning session nominations are open. Please encourage school board members and district administrators and staff, as well as our partners, to submit session nominations. The deadline is March 1 at 5 p.m. For information and tips on nominating sessions and a link to the online nomination form, visit http://conference.ohioschoolboards.org/2022/call-for-session-presentations/
Middle schools throughout the state are partnering with the Ohio Statewide Family Engagement Center at The Ohio State University to help parents get tips and advice to have those important "money talks" with their middle school-aged children as part of a research study on financial conversations in families.
To access these free tools, please click on this link where you can sign up and learn more about the Money Talks online modules for parents:
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BASA, OEA, OSBA, OASBO, OFT, and OAESA, invite a team from your school district and community to an Introduction to Community Learning Centers, a 90 minute, virtual presentation.
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Students who are absent from school miss important learning opportunities that can be difficult, or impossible to make up. Engaging students is the key to getting them focused and ready to learn.
Attendance Works is offering a three-session virtual training for elementary and secondary school leaders and staff to provide proven, evidence-based tiered strategies to engage students and promote attendance using a team approach. The series cost is $300 per person. Group sessions will meet every two weeks on assigned dates.
Participants will learn:
Are you promoting the great work of the students in your district? OSBA Senior Student Achievement Consultant Kim Miller-Smith joins the podcast to discuss the association's work to advance student achievement throughout the state. Listen at https://bit.ly/37pYzle or on your favorite podcasting app…
The Ohio Department of Education released Supporting Student Attendance and Engagement guidance for districts and schools in the Back to School Resources section of its website. This…
The Ohio School Safety Center (OSSC) has learned of a new October social media challenge that impacts Ohio schools and, specifically, staff and educators.
Some TikTok users have devised a monthly list that includes various pranks or “challenges” to take place at school. For example, in recent weeks, there have been incidents of school vandalism as part of the "devious lick" challenge.
The published challenge for the month of October asks students to “…
September is Attendance Awareness Month.
Attendance Awareness Month is a nationwide recognition of the connection between regular school attendance and academic achievement. This month highlights the importance of mobilizing schools, families and community partners to promote regular attendance by developing tiered strategies and personalized interventions to reduce chronic absence. A student who misses as few as two days of school a month is considered chronically absent. Ohio’s chronic absenteeism rate for the 2018-2019 school year was 16.7% — or…
Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Education (Department) released the "Return to School Roadmap," a resource to support students, schools, educators, and communities as they prepare to return to safe, healthy in-person learning this fall. The Roadmap provides key resources and supports for students, parents, educators, and school communities.
The Roadmap includes three "Landmark" priorities that schools, districts, and communities are encouraged to focus on to ensure all students are set up for success in the 2021-2022 school year. These include:
(1) prioritizing the…
