Columbia Elementary School, a Literacy Collaborative school in Mount Vernon, Ohio, is one of 194 schools in Ohio that received a School of Promise award from the Ohio Department of Education in October 2007.

In order to qualify for the award, a school must have more than 40% of its students qualify for free or reduced price lunch and have at least 75% of their third grade students pass the state of Ohio's achievement test in reading or mathematics. Columbia Elementary had 41.9% of their students qualify for free or reduced price lunch during the 2006-07 school year. During that school year, 87.2% of the third grade students passed the state of Ohio's third grade reading test.

Congratulations to the team of parents, teachers, and administrators whom these students represent.

IMPACT Literacy K-6 is a new offering providing professional development for literacy coaches and teachers to raise achievement in reading and writing. The focus is to implement research-based practices and develop collaborative learning communities. For more information on IMPACT Literacy K-6, see our IMPACT Literacy K-6 page.

Learn to accelerate achievement for low-achieving students. Participants will learn to use the Fountas and Pinnell Leveled Literacy materials. For more information see our Training Events page.

Literacy Collaborative^® at The Ohio State University offers a variety of new training events. For more information on these professional development offerings, please see our Training Events page.

Prepares individuals to caoch K-6 teachers in reading, writing, and word study. Participants will learn how to work with teachers to help them become more effective in their classroom practice. Coaching Academy 08-09.

Literacy Coordinator Training at The Ohio State University is comprised of an intensive 7 week (Primary) or 8 week (Intermediate) course that occurs throughout the academic year. This training prepares a teacher to implement the Literacy Collaborative^® framework in his or her own classroom, and develops the on-site capacity for this teacher to train other teachers at the building level. For more details on the Literacy Collaborative^® framework, please see our framework page. For Literacy Coordinator applications, please see our Training Events page.

Through this one-day development experience, participants will learn how to integrate KEEP BOOKS^® into a learning environment, discover how to establish a school/home book program with KEEP BOOKS^®, find out how KEEP BOOKS^® can be matched with state standards, gain knowledge in how they can be used to help children develop comprehension skills, and hear about other wonderful OSU literacy projects. There no KEEP BOOKS Workshops scheduled at this time. To be notified of future workshops please click here.