This Friday, 1/27 from 12-1pm in Ramseyer 136: Understanding and Using Multilevel Factor Analysis for Educational Research by Nivedita Bhaktha, M.S., M.Sc.
Month: January 2017
Columbus South High School Diplomas Now Program
Check out this great opportunity with Columbus South High School.
A message from William K. Ragland II:
Good Morning Business and Community Leaders,
I hope this email finds you well. My name is William K. Ragland II and I am the School Transformation Facilitator at Columbus South High School working with the Diplomas Now program. Diplomas Now is a proven approach that helps the toughest middle and high schools in America’s largest cities ensure that every student graduates ready for college or career. It is the first fully integrated approach that improves a school’s curriculum and instruction, while it provides the right students with the right support at the right time. The Diplomas Now partnership is comprised of Talent Development Secondary (a program of Johns Hopkins University), City Year, and Communities in Schools. Our goal at South is to increase attendance rates, decrease behavior infractions, and increase course passage rates beginning with students in the seventh grade.
South is in the fifth and final year of implementation of the Diplomas Now program. At the end of the 2012-2013 school year, South High School promoted 98% of its freshmen class to the 10th grade on track. This is a 93% increase from the previous year. Of 44 schools in 12 cities nationwide implementing the Diplomas Now school turn around model, South quietly earned Diplomas Now High School of the Year honors last year because of its efforts. During the 2013-2014 South High School 10th grade students scored remarkably well on the Ohio Graduation Test. We saw double digit gains in every subject tested, including thirty-percent gains in reading and writing respectively. We also promoted 90% of our freshman to 10th grade on time. South High School was awarded the prestigious Straight “A” Fund Grant from the Ohio Department of Education. Our first cohort (2016) of Diplomas Now students graduated last school year. Eighty-eight percent of the graduating class had experienced the Diplomas Now program for three or more years. Our graduation class ranked among the top 10 high schools in the district. Our Freshman Matriculation last school year rate ranked among the top 5 high schools in the district.
As a part of the Diplomas Now program we will be conducting quarterly report card conferences with our seventh through twelfth grade students. We are looking for business and community leaders that are willing to come speak with individual students about their second quarter report card. Our second quarter report card conference will take place on January 26th , 2017 from 8:00- 10:30am in the school cafeteria. You do not have to stay the entire time if you have other conflicts; any time you can give is greatly appreciated. I will provide a brief training on how the conferences are to be conducted beginning at 8:00am on January 26th.
If you can attend please confirm your attendance by emailing me at wragland@jhu.edu or calling me at 614-365-5541 ext. 223. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or concerns. Please share this invite with any of your friends or colleagues that may be interested in attending.
At the end of 2016-2017 school year, the Diplomas Now program as currently constituted will be leaving South High School. I would like to “Thank you” all for your support of the program and most importantly your support of the students at South High School.
I know this invite is later than I usually send it. I just returned from paternity leave. I hope you can still make it.
Thank you for reading this email. Together we will make a difference at South High School and in Columbus!
Sincerely,
William K. Ragland II
School Transformation Facilitator, Columbus OH
Talent Development Secondary
2701 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218
Phone: (614)-365-5541
Cell: (614) 348-6664
Email: wragland@jhu.edu
Web: www.tdschools.org
Graduate Associateships
Deadline to apply is Wednesday January 25, 2017.
Each year, Educational Studies awards a significant number of associateships for graduate teaching or graduate research.
These positions are highly competitive. We are able to provide associateships to many students who want them, but not all. Full-time doctoral students will be given priority.
Open positions are filled based on the knowledge and skills of the candidates. Supervising faculty and the department chair decide whom to hire for associateships.
Our application to apply for Graduate Associateship positions is now open. Please go to our GA Applications for 2016-2017 to apply for open positions. (Please use the GA Applications for 2016-2017)
Google Student Blog
Do you love using Google as a general search tool, but aren’t sure how to utilize it as a student? Google Student Blog can help! With over 30 topics and archived posts from 2008 to the present, this site offers a lot of useful information for the student. Some interesting and relevant categories of posts include Grad Tips, PhD, Student Tips, Google+ and Conferences, to name a few. Just click on the Labels tab on the right to find categories that are interesting to you! Check out Google news and updates published online specifically for students.
Finding Funding Workshop
The EHE Methodological Colloquium Series presents Finding Funding Workshop with Jeff Agnoli, M.A. Friday January 20th, 12-1pm, 136 Ramseyer Hall.
Around Columbus
Did you know? Columbus is home to some of the world’s foremost research institutions.
Some of these research institutions include:
- Battelle, the world’s largest private, nonprofit research institution. Battelle serves the national security, health and life sciences, and energy and environmental industries.
- Chemical Abstracts, which hosts the largest collection of information on chemicals and molecular science in the world.
- The Ohio State University, whose annual research expenditures exceed $967 million.
- The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, one of the fastest growing pediatric research centers in the United States. Nationwide Children’s currently ranks in the top ten based in NIH funding.
(brandcolumbus.com)
Check it out!
The Center of Science and Industry (COSI) is a science center that offers activities, exhibits and events for just about everyone. Part of COSI’s mission statement reads “we motivate a desire toward a better understanding of science, industry, health, and history through involvement in exhibits, demonstrations, and a variety of educational activities and experiences” (cosi.org). Since 1964, COSI has been offering learning opportunities to kids and adults alike and in 2008, Parent Magazine named COSI America’s #1 science center (cosi.org).
Adult activities at COSI include lectures, panel discussions, evening films and more. COSI even offers an overnight program for adults that includes a cash bar and access to various activities.
COSI offers memberships as well as daily admission prices. Check out cosi.org to view the calendar of events and the COSI Center for School & Community Partnerships.
Twitter: @COSI
Instagram: @cosiscience
Washington D.C. Museum and Public History Trip
Calling all graduate and advanced undergraduate students interested in the study of African American and African art, culture, and history. The Department of African American and African Studies is planning a museum and public history trip to Washington, D.C. during Spring Break 2017 (March 12-16). The trip will include visits to, for example, the Smithsonian Institution’s new National Museum of African American History and Culture, the National Museum of African Art, and the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site. Round-trip travel between Columbus, OH and Washington, D.C. as well as accommodations in D.C. will be covered through the Division of Arts & Humanities and the Department of African American and African Studies, but students will be responsible for paying their own meals (count on $40-65 for three meals per day). A deposit of $200 will be required upon acceptance and will be reimbursed upon travel.
Deadline: JANUARY 20th
There is no class enrollment associated with this trip and students will not be able to receive Ohio State credit.
Spots are limited. If interested, please complete this application and write a one page (double spaced) statement in which you explain why you would like to join the trip and how participation in this trip would further your study and career goals.
Please direct any questions to either Dr. Simone Drake (drake.194) or Dr. Sarah Van Beurden (van-beurden.1).
Deadline: E-mail applications are due by January 20th to van-beurden.1@osu.edu.
Managing Active Data Workshop
Managing Active Data
Location: Research Commons, Eighteenth Avenue Library, 3rd Floor
Date: Friday, February 3, 2017
Time: 10-11:30am
In this 1.5 hour in-person session, we focus on data management, from project start-up through data collection, analysis, and publication of your major findings. Presenters will review best-practices for data storage, form/format, documentation, and integrity. Attendees will be asked to provide feedback on their storage needs and brainstorm ideas for a college-wide storage system for EHE researchers.
Best practices for handling active participant files, data sets, variables, and codebooks will be discussed by leading OSU research scientists. Presenters include Amanda Rinehart, Data Management Librarian, OSU Libraries; Joe Roush, CIO College of Education and Human Ecology, as well as leading researchers from EHE including Jessica Logan from CCEC.
This is the second workshop in a series of three workshops that focus on the data life cycle (page 8). The video and power points from the first workshop, Know Your Data: Security and Compliance Issues, are available. The third in the series will cover the topics of archiving and data repositories and will happen in March 2017.
This workshop is for all OSU faculty, postdoctoral researchers, staff and graduate students with examples from the College of Education and Human Ecology.
If you have any questions, please email Rebecca Chacko at chacko.9@osu.edu.
A critical conversation with Dr. William (Bill) Ayers
Month-long celebration of the life and legacy of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
