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The P.O. Zone archives

The P.O. Zone presents the monthly theme and featured articles.

Feature Articles

A Dozen Easy Ways to Build College Aspiration: Practical ways to build a college-connected culture at your school
A Principal’s Role in Facilitating Technology Adoption in Schools: Four Essential Lessons: How a school approaches technology and what it expects from its teachers are fundamentally important to successful adoption.
Checklist for Navigating the Wild Weather of the School Year: Some key tasks for the beginning of the school year
Civic Education Programs in Ohio: A compilation categorized by high school, middle school, and elementary school.
Civic Education on the Bench Outside the Principal’s Office: Describes the role of principals in making the Columbus Annenberg Civic Education Initiative effective.
Cyberbullying and Schools: Exploring the Problems and Identifying Solutions. Describes the extent of the problem and types of cyberbullying. Lists ways that school personnel can help students cope.
Education for Citizenship: The Service-Learning Connection: Why citizenship education is critically important and how service-learning can help.
Everyday Heroes: Good News Regarding Academic Integrity and Cheating: Why and when students cheat and what administrators should do about it.
It’s All about the Hyphen: The Essential Connection between Service and Learning: Explains what makes service-learning effective at all education levels.
Knowledge Is Power: Fostering Student Aspirations and Achievement. In a speech to the Ohio Entry-Year Principal Program Institute, Nancy Nestor-Baker describes the current state of education in Ohio.
Lessons about Gun Violence from the New York City Youth Violence Study (NYCYVS) for School Settings and Beyond. Research yields some suggestions for preventing youth violence.
Managing Teachers in a Virtual World: Describes how principals can provide management and support to teachers working in an independent virtual school program.
NSF GK-12 Science Fellows Supporting Teachers Program: The GK-12 program pairs outstanding science and math graduate students with K-12 teachers to improve STEM teaching and learning.
Principals Help Students Set Sights on College: ways that elementary, middle, and high school principals can become Access Advocates
Self-Awareness: The Missing Link to Effective Leadership: Understanding their leadership styles can help school leaders be effective.
The Courage to Lead: Urges principals to be courageous leaders who stay the course each day to the good of their students.
The History of Education…and Why NONE of It Matters! Virtual Learning: Characteristics that make online learning, including “virtual field trips,” worthwhile.
The Ohio STEM Learning Network: Making STEM Education Work for Ohio: Describes innovative and creative approaches to science, technology, engineering and mathematics education in 10 Ohio schools.

Past Themes

Civic Engagement (April 2009)
Collaborating with Communities (February 2007)
College Access (November 2008)
Developing Positive Communications with Staff, Parents, and Students (October 2008)
Discipline Issues: Cyberbulling and Cheating (October 2009)
Ethical Issues (March 2007)
Ethics (March 2008)
Fostering Educational Responsibility for a Global World (October 2007)
Information for Principals about College Access (December 2008)
Intervention and Empowerment (November 2009)
ISLLC Standard 2 (March 2006)
ISLLC Standard 4 (September 2006)
Knowledge Is Power (August 2008)
Leadership (September 2009)
Looking Back and Looking Forward (May 2008)
Mobilizing the Community (February 2008)
Nurturing School Culture (August 2006)
Positive School Culture (December 2007)
Professional Collaboration (November 2007)
Professional Learning Communities (December 2006)
Renewal (June 2007)
Responding to Diverse Community Needs (January 2008)
Safe Schools (January 2009)
Safety First! (November 2006)
School Discipline (February 2009)
Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (March 2009)
Standards-Based Instruction (April 2007)
Standards-Based Instruction, Teaching and Learning (April 2008)
Sustaining School Culture (November 2007)
The Broader Context of Schools (May 2007)
The School Levy (October 2006)
Virtual Learning (May 2009)
Vision (August 2007)
Welcome Back (August 2009)

See the Subject Index to find articles organized by subject, or use the Search box on the right.

An annotated list with brief descriptions of the Archives contents is available (Word document).