BASA Member Update 2.14.2020

BASA Member Update February 14, 2020

1. Hot Topics

• Comprehensive Literacy State Development Grant • 2020 Ohio School Climate State Grant • First Appalachian Entrepreneurship Academy • Innovative Leaders Institute

2. 2020 Betsy M. Cowles Leadership Award Application

HOT TOPICS

Applications are Currently Open for the Following Programs:

Comprehensive Literacy State Development Grant The U.S. Department of Education has awarded the Ohio Department of Education $42 million for a Comprehensive Literacy State Development Grant to build on its work to improve language and literacy development in our state’s children. The Department will distribute awards directly to local districts, community schools and early childhood education programs to improve literacy outcomes for children from birth through grade 12. The four-year subgrants will focus on developing model literacy sites in early childhood education programs and district preschools, as well as elementary, middle and high schools. The model sites will concentrate on implementing practices consistent with Ohio’s Plan to Raise Literacy Achievement, which is available on the Department’s website . The grant also will support professional learning and coaching. Details, including a request for application, grant proposal narrative, eligibility requirements, steps to apply, frequently asked questions and intent to apply are on the Comprehensive Literacy State Development grant webpage . 2020 Ohio School Climate State Grant The School Climate State Grant allows ODE to offer financial assistance to eligible school buildings to implement positive behavioral interventions and supports (PBIS) and evidence- or research-based social and emotional learning initiatives. The grant prioritizes school buildings with economically disadvantaged rates above the state average and school buildings with high out-of-school suspension rates. The application period opened in the CCIP on Feb. 10 and closes March 12 at 3:59 p.m. The Department will notify grantees of their awards in April 2020. More information about the grant, applicant eligibility and application details are available here .

First Appalachian Entrepreneurship Academy Appalachian high school seniors enrolled in the 2020-2021 school year are invited to apply for the first Appalachian Entrepreneurship Academy, a four-week, all expenses paid entrepreneurial experience. The academy takes place July 6-31 in Pittsburgh. Students from Ohio’s 32 Appalachian counties, enrolled as seniors during the 2020-2021 school year, are eligible to apply. Applications are due March 6. Find application materials on the Appalachian Regional Commission website . High school seniors can learn more about business planning and product development. During the program, students will work with assigned mentors — local entrepreneurs and business leaders — to create business pitches and present them to investors. A winner will be selected to win seed funding. All students’ program expenses will be covered, and each participant will receive a $600 stipend. Innovative Leaders Institute The Innovative Leaders Institute is now accepting applications for a new class of Ohio educators. The program is one of the nation’s few training opportunities in which leaders of innovative schools can learn from veteran STEM principals. The program has trained more than 250 educators in Ohio and Tennessee. The Innovative Leaders Institute is open to teams of two school leaders — a building principal or assistant principal and an additional building-level leader. Each applicant must complete the online application. Apply with a co-applicant by March 3. Check out the Ohio STEM Learning Network website for details and the application .

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 _____________

Other positions held during the past five years:

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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

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