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Handouts and forms from presentationS by Nancy Nestor-Baker and staff of the P-12 Project at the 2008 Outreach Scholarship Conference:
- Outreach Sufficiency Model (PDF, 53 KB)
- Outreach Sufficiency Needs Assessment Toolkit (PDF, 346 KB)
- Higher Education Partnership (HEP) Agreement
- HEP Update
- HEP Workplan
- College Prep 101 (PDF, 1MB)
- Seniors to Sophomores Initiative (PDF, 155KB)
- Blueprint:College Overview
Projects in Progress
2007-08 Partnership Summary
This publication documents Ohio State involvement with schools, school districts, or school-age children and youth. The P-12 Project is now collecting information for the next edition covering the 2007-08 school year. Ohio State faculty and staff involved in school partnerships: please complete the online form to report your partnership activities. For earlier editions of the summary, see the Resources page.
Seniors to Sophomores
Ohio State is one of six higher education institutions partnering with Columbus City Schools on the Seniors to Sophomores program, a new dual enrollment option that prepares high school students to complete their senior year requirements and their freshman year in college at the same time. The 25 CCS students in the Seniors to Sophomores program come from 10 area high schools. They will attend college full time during their senior year while also completing the courses required for high school graduation. The participating institutions—Ohio State, Ohio University at Pickerington, Ohio Dominican, Franklin, Columbus State, and Capital—are members of the Columbus City Schools Higher Education Partnership (CCS/HEP), a coalition formed in 2002 to improve access, retention and competition of postsecondary education for CCS students. Seniors to Sophomores participants recently completed a summer orientation at Columbus State. “The idea of the orientation is to create a bridge and improve the process of transitioning so these students can be successful in college,” said Nancy Nestor-Baker, director of the P-12 Project and CCS/HEP liaison. “It’s a wonderful opportunity for the students to earn a year of college credit at no tuition cost, and for us to work on curriculum alignment between P-12 education and colleges in Ohio.”
No Excuses University
The goal of the No Excuses program is to help create a classroom environment that supports success in learning and inspires students to think about going to college aspiration. The P-12 Project developed relationships with classrooms in elementary, middle, and high schools in California, New York, Illinois, and Ohio. Teachers were sent boxes of age-appropriate items, such as Ohio State pencils, banners, bookmarks, sports team posters, and college access information, including Know How to Go and Make College Happen items.
Project Updates
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. Story and photos in the Partnerships section.
Higher Education Partnership
A presentation by P-12 Director Nancy Nestor-Baker at the 2008 Outreach Scholarship Conference describes how this consortium of nine universities is working with Columbus City Schools to address P-16 issues in urban education. (Powerpoint, 116KB)
Baseball Day
Each year, Baseball Day brings more than 3,000 sixth-grade students and staff from the Columbus City Schools to campus for an educational pep rally followed by a Buckeye baseball game. Stories and photos in the Partnerships section.
