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Academic & Athletic Accountability
This program is designed for all student-athletes in the Cincinnati Public Schools district with a focus on establishing Academic and Athletic accountability. CPS Athletics will empower our students, parents, and staff with strategic resources to help our student-athletes excel during their high school career. There will be a focus on preparing our student-athletes for their academic and athletic careers past high school. The tools described in this program will connect our coaches, parents, counselors and administrators, aligned with the same goal to put our student-athletes on a pathway for success after high school.
To learn more about the AAA Pathway and read the manual, click here!
AAA Pathway Resources
Find links to everything you need including procedure guidelines, helpful videos of how to utilize our new and old tools, and links to the Google Drives where you will store your work.
Welcome to the resource center for the AAA Pathway Program. The work of the AAA Pathway Coaches at each school is essential to the academic success of CPS student-athletes.
This page includes procedure guidelines, helpful videos of how to utilize suggested tools, and links to Google Drives where you will store your work. IF there is a document or resource you need that is not listed, please contact Mark Hermann.
AAA Pathway Google Drive
Save all documents pertaining to AAA Pathway work
Weekly Grade Check Templates
Individual Student Schedule Template
Working documents for each in-season sport. Use the template that makes the most sense for your school but make sure you save documents in your school's folder. Notes on academic intervention meetings should be accessible here.
If Teachers Aren't Updating Grades in PowerSchool
Please use this sheet when you've run into any issues with grades failing to update in a timely manner. Notify Colleen Cheek when these issues arise and use this form when escalating the issue further.
Academic Intervention Plan (AIP)
AIP Plan Meeting Video
Using Google Meet for Recurring Office Hours
Honest Game
Cincinnati Public Schools has partnered with Honest Game, the industry's leading academic compliance software for high school students bound for college athletics. Honest Game will transform students' grades, schedules, and test scores into a College Athletic Report on Eligibility (CARE). CARE tracks all your academic requirements and ensures you know what to do before it's too late. Honest Game includes compliance information for D1, D2, D3, NAIA, and JUCO.
Honest Game's 7 Part Student and Family Webinar Series on College Sports for the 2025-2026 school year!
Honest Game Student-Athlete Checklist
Honest Game School Athletic Coordinator Guide
Honest Game School Counselor Guide
How to Register with the NCAA Eligibility Center
AAA Pathway Coach Yearly Evaluation Sheet (Accountability Grid)
2025-2026 Start of Year AAA, Counselor & AD Meeting
(Information from OHSAA, Honest Game & NCAA)
Subscribe to NCAA High School Newsletter
How to track CCP Classes through OHSAA (see the top of page 2)
CCP/Non-Enrolled Student Grade Report Sheet
WHAT HAPPENS IF THE COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR DOESN'T GET US GRADES WHEN WE NEED THEM? At the start of last school year an update to OHSAA Bylaws as it pertains to CCP was provided. If a student is enrolled in a CCP class, you can presume them to be passing until you see evidence that they failed or that they dropped the class, at which time they would become ineligible if failing that class would lead them to be ineligible.
So if you have trouble getting grades, you can rule them eligible if the equivalencies work out, but if you do that route then they do not earn their eligibility for the entire g/p. If they end up failing , they become ineligible as soon as you find out.
IMPORTANT RESOURCES FROM THE MEETING
2025-26 Start of Year AAA/Counselor Meeting
AAA Pathway/Counselor/Athletic Staff Resource Guide
CPS Athletics/AAA Pathway Powerpoint
OHSAA Powerpoint
ACT Bootcamp
If you have a student-athlete that you would like to nominate for an ACT boot camp, email Mark Hermann. Please include in that email the student information (name, grade, email address, sport, NCAA/NAIA potential) and whether you would suggest a group boot camp or one-on-one support.
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