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Ohio's New Learning Standards - In June 2010, the Ohio's State Board of Education adopted the Common Core State Standards in English language arts and mathematics, the results of a multi-state effort. The board also adopted more rigorous versions of Ohio's academic content standards in science and social studies. All classrooms will be using these standards in the 2013-2014 school year.

Ohio Learning Standards (ODE)

Ohio's New Learning Standards - Higher Expectations for a Brighter Future (YouTube)

Ohio's Race to the Top (RttT) News and Views - Ohio's Race to the Top (RttT) strategy aligns with the Ohio Department of Educationís (ODE's) vision and mission to implement a world

FIP Your School - In a FIP School, all stakeholders understand the importance of formative instructional practices and use these practices to move learning forward. A FIP School embraces formative instructional practices as part of its culture. The school engages in a formative learning system where all members are learners who intentionally use formative instructional practices to guide and support adult and student learning.

ODE's information regarding SLOs and SGMs - A Student Learning Objective (SLO) is a measurable, long-term academic growth target that a teacher sets at the beginning of the year for all students or for subgroups of students. SLOs demonstrate a teacher’s impact on student learning within a given interval of instruction based upon baseline data gathered at the beginning of the course.

-class education system in which all students will graduate with a sense of purpose and be well prepared for college, work and life. News and Views give you updates to latest going on.

3rd Grade Guarantee - Updates and Guidance from ODE - In summer 2012, legislation strengthened the Third Grade Reading Guarantee to give greater emphasis to reading instruction and intervention in the early grades. Through this initiative, school districts and community schools will diagnose reading deficiencies in students at grades kindergarten through three, create individualized reading improvement and monitoring plans and provide intensive reading interventions.