OSBA Forums

February 2025 forum with Malania Birney, OSBA legislative services consultant

Show notes:

• OSBA Leading the Way podcast: Ohio's school-funding future: The next two-year budget
• 2025 State Legislative Conference, March 18 • register

January 2025 forum with Richard Laine, Midwest Region director of the National Center of Education and Economy

Show notes:

• National Center of Education and Economy
• NCEE Blueprint: Designing Systems that Work

October 2024 forum with Jeff Chambers, director of communication services, and Cheryl W. Ryan, director of board and management services

Show notes:

• OSBA Capital Conference

September 2024 forum with Reem Aly, executive director of the Ohio School-Based Health Alliance

Show notes:

• Ohio School-Based Heath Alliance

August 2024 forum with Emily Douglas-McNab, co-founder and chief at Experience Management Institute

Show notes:

• Experience Management Institute

June 2024 forum with Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services Director LeeAnne Cornyn and Chief Advisor Tia Marcel Moretti

Show notes:

• Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services
• 988 Suicide and Crisis Line in Ohio
• Gov. Mike DeWine calls on General Assembly to enact legislation limiting cellphone use in schools
• Prevention tools mentioned
  • Sources of Strength
  • ADAHM boards
  • PAX at Nationwide Children's Hospital 
  • Ohio Youth-Led Prevention Network
  • Miami University's Center for School-based Mental Health
• Mobile Response Stabilization Services
• Ohio Triple P: Positive Parenting Program
• NAMI-Ohio
• Mental health training for athletic coaches

May 2024 forum with Andrew Wheatley, director of secondary curriculum at Lakota Local (Butler), and Chris Berry, chief executive officer of OhioX

Show notes:

• OhioX
• Ohio AI Toolkit for Schools
• Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick

April 2024 forum with Ohio Association for Career and Technical Education Executive Director Dee Smith

Show notes:

• Ohio Association for Career and Technical Education
• Ohio Association of Career-Technical Superintendents
• Ohio Association of Comprehensive and Compact Career-Technical Schools

March 2024 forum with Superintendent of Public Instruction Paul Craft

Show notes:

• State Board of Education
• State Board of Education Policies and Procedures

Feb. 27, 2024, forum with Battelle 4 Kids Chief Executive Officer Dr. Michael Duncan and Chief Learning Officer Dr. Colon Lewis

Show notes:

• Battelle for Kids website
• Battelle for Kids' Portrait of a Graduate program

Jan. 30, 2024, forum with Ohio Department of Education and Workforce Director Stephen D. Dackin

Watch the Jan. 30 forum

Show notes:

• Ohio Department of Education and Workforce webpage
• DEW Science of Reading webpage
• Professional development in science of reading
• Science of Reading FAQ

Dec. 19, 2023, forum with Dr. Kathy McFarland, chief executive officer, Ohio School Boards Association

Oct. 24, 2023, forum with Dr. Keith M. Bell, intervention facilitator, College of Education and Human Ecology, Ohio State University; and Cheryl W. Ryan and Jeff Chambers, Ohio School Boards Association

Show notes:

• Ohio State University Student Leadership Research Collaborative
• U.S. Department of Education Innovation and Research Grants
• Martha Holding Jennings Foundation grant
• School-Based Youth Participatory Action Research program
• OSBA Capital Conference website
• Conference learning sessions
• Student Achievement Fair
• Capital Conference App
• OSBA Delegate Assembly - how to appoint your district's delegate

Sept. 26, 2023, forum with Delaware City Schools Director of Secondary Education Aaron R. Cook, Forge Biologics Head of Talent Acquisition Mandy Medve and BridgED and Unite Founder and Chief Executive Director Christy Bertolo

Show notes

• BridgEd
• UNITE
• Forge Biologics

Aug. 29, 2023 forum with Capital University College of Education Dean Dr. Jennifer Kelly, Assistant Professor Dr. Nisreen Daoud and Associate Professor Dr. Bradley Conrad

Show notes
The following resources were referenced during the discussions:

• Capital University's Capital City Teacher Residency program
• Center for Teacher Growth and Renewal
• Gov. DeWine announces new teacher apprenticeship programs
• The Columbus Promise 

To learn more, contact:

• Dr. Jennifer Kelly: jkelly@capital.edu
• Dr. Nisreen Daoud: ndaoud@capital.edu
• Dr. Bradley Conrad: bconrad2@capital.edu