Aligning Partners for Success:

the Oyler High School Story 

Can a School Save a Community?

With rave reviews from the School Library Journal and Educational Media Reviews Online, The Oyler High School Story profiles how an innovative "community school" helped fuel a dramatic turnaround in one poverty-stricken neighborhood.  Elaine Weiss, National Coordinator with Broader Bolder Approach to Education says the one-hour documentary ". . .illustrates the district's innovative, holistic approach to mitigating the devastating impacts of concentrated poverty."  

Located in a once-thriving, working-class neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, the Oyler school is surrounded by vacant factories, leaving wide-spread unemployment and extreme poverty in its wake. When Craig Hockenberry became Oyler's principal, he knew that in order to meet the needs of its students, he would also have to meet the needs of its run-down community, plagued by drugs and prostitution. With Hockenberry's leadership, Oyler helped students become successful by transforming their school to meet more than just their academic needs; Oyler now provides basic health, social, and nutritional needs for its students and their families.  

Don't miss this opportunity to see the documentary and hear how a dramatic transformation was made to not only a school, but also to its community.

In order to obtain an accurate count for lunch, registration is necessary for this FREE event.  Please register today!

The agenda follows:

10 a.m.  -- The documentary "The Oyler High School Story" will be shown in the Governor Hulett C. Smith Theater

11 a.m.   -- Craig Hockenberry, Superintendent, Three Rivers Local School District, former Principal of Oyler High School

12:15 p.m.  -- Lunch -- provided and served in the atrium

12:45 p.m. --  John Kennedy, School Based Health Coordinator, West Virginia Primary Care Association

Paula Fields, Senior Program Manager, National School Based Health Alliance

  THANK YOU to the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation 

Introduction of Special Guests

1:00 p.m. -- Martin Blank, Director, Coalition for Community Schools 

2:15 p.m. --  Q & A

2:30 p.m. --  Safe Travels!

 

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