BASA Member Update 1.17.2020

BASA Member Update January 17, 2020

1. Hot Topics • Nominations Open for TORCH Recognition for Educators • Spanish Visiting Teacher Program Applications Now Open • Mental Health and Social-Emotional Learning Summit • Application Deadline for STEM and STEAMDesignation

2. 2020 Betsy M. Cowles Leadership Award Application

HOT TOPICS

Nominations Open for TORCH Recognition for Educators The Ohio Department of Education now is taking nominations for the Teachers of Ohio Representing Character and Heart (TORCH) recognition. The TORCH program honors five teachers each year who model strong personal character and concern for their students, colleagues and communities. Nominations close Jan. 31. The 2019 Ohio Teacher of the Year and 2019 Ohio Teacher of the Year finalists will evaluate nominations and select this year’s TORCH honorees by late March. TORCH program criteria, guidance and nomination materials are available here . Spanish Visiting Teacher Program Applications Now Open The Ohio Department of Education is accepting applications from schools or districts interested in taking part in the Spanish Visiting Teacher Program for the 2020-2021 school year. This program places visiting language and immersion content educators from Spain in Ohio schools for up to five years. It also allows Ohio schools to offer quality instruction in Spanish from native speakers while promoting rich cross-cultural exchange. The Department uses the information district applicants provide to recruit highly qualified teachers from Spain in mid-April. Teachers in the pool of candidates have passed initial screenings by the Spanish Ministry of Education. These candidates also must qualify for Ohio’s Visiting International Teacher License in the areas in which they will teach. The Department sponsors the required J-1 visa authorized by the U.S. Department of State’s Exchange Visitor Program. To learn more about program requirements and apply, interested school and district administrators can visit the Department’s Spanish Visiting Teacher webpage . The application deadline is Monday, March 30. The Department will hold an informational conference call for schools and districts that want more information about the Spanish Visiting Teacher Program and its requirements. The call is Friday, Jan. 31, at 9 a.m. and will last about 90 minutes. Contact Ryan Wertz by Jan. 29 to register for the information session.

Save the Date! MENTAL HEALTH AND SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING SUMMIT

OSBA and other education groups and mental health associations are planning a Mental Heath and Social-Emotional Learning Summit. This free event will be Feb. 25, 2020, at the Greater Columbus Convention Center. Learning opportunities will be geared for teachers, counselors, school psychologists, board members, administrators and other school staff. Districts are encouraged to bring a team so that staff can attend multiple breakout sessions. The summit also will include a Resource Fair in which agencies can share information on their resources that are available to district staff. Keynote speakers and session topics are being finalized. More information will be available in November, and registration will open in December. https://www.ohioschoolboards.org/mental-health-and-social-emotional-learning-summit Application Deadline for STEM and STEAM Designation Application materials, including a designation rubric and updated application, are posted here . This application is designed to highlight a school’s journey to implement STEM or STEAM pedagogy, focusing on the learning and curriculum, school culture and community partnerships. Please remember that designation for an entire district requires an individual application for each school. Final designation applications are due via email to Kimberly Bell by 5 p.m. on Jan. 31.

2020 Official Nomination Form Betsy M. Cowles Leadership Award

Presented by the Buckeye Association of School Administrators

CRITERIA: The BASA Betsy M. Cowles Leadership Award will be presented to a female administrator who has demonstrated outstanding educational leadership in making significant contributions to educational administration in a school district, education service center or educational institution. The candidate should be an excellent role model and should encourage others to seek administrative positions. The candidate is required to have a minimum of three years of continuous service as an administrator or college instructor and whose district superintendent has been a BASA member for a minimum of three years. PROCEDURE: The selection committee will include the chair and three members at large of the Women’s Outreach Committee as well as a BASA Director. Any individual may nominate herself or someone else for this award. This official nomination form for the Betsy M. Cowles Leadership Award must be submitted to BASA by February 14, 2020. Nominations must be submitted on the official nomination form. If other material is provided the nomination will not be considered. The awards will be presented at the BASA Women’s Conference, and at the BASA Fall Conference. Betsy M. Cowles Betsy M. Cowles was one of the earliest and most noteable female superintendents in the State of Ohio. She was known for her contributions to education, abolitionism and women’s rights in Ohio. She counted among her friends and acquaintances people such as Frederick Douglas, William Lloyd Garrison, Henry C. Wright and Abby Kelley Foster. Ms. Cowles was a risk taker and stood for what she believed. She spoke out against the Black Laws which kept African Americans from voting in Ohio. She actually quit her teaching job when the school she was working for at the time refused to admit black students. In the 1820’s into the early 1830’s she opened infant schools in northeastern Ohio which were a predecessor to the modern day kindergartens. She earned her teaching degree from Oberlin College in the 1840’s in the third female class to graduate. She taught in grammar schools, in addition to serving as principal and as superintendent of the Please submit your nominations to BASA by February 14, 2020

Painesville Township Local Schools from 1858-1860. She also served as superintendent of the girl’s grammar school and girl’s high school in Canton, Ohio from 1850-1855.

This award will be given annually to a woman who exemplifies outstanding administrative leadership.

Betsy M. Cowles Leadership Award Official Nomination Form

Deadline: February 14, 2020

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Name: _______________________________________________________________________ BASA Member? ❑ Yes Position ____________________________________________________________________ Organization ________________________________________________________________ Address ____________________________________________________________________ City___________________________________State__________ Zip ___________________ Telephone______________________________Fax _________________________________

❑ No Years of continuous service _____________

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I. Description of significant contributions/exemplary leadership:

II. Statement describing how you or the nominated candidate actually enhanced education through exemplary leadership:

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Please return to BASA By February 14, 2020 Buckeye Association of School Administrators 8050 N. High Street, Suite 150

Columbus, OH 43235 Fax: (614)846-4081