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Ohio Launches
Strategic Plan for Education: Each Child, Our Future
Today the State Board of Education and State Superintendent of Public
Instruction Paolo DeMaria joined key partners to unveil Each Child, Our
Future, Ohio’s five-year strategic plan for education. Co-designed over
the last year by parents, educators, employers, philanthropic leaders,
policymakers and students, the plan seeks to lift aspirations, guide
development of state-level policies and promote quality education
practices across the state.
“Each Child, Our Future aims to ensure every child is challenged,
prepared and empowered to become a resilient, lifelong learner who
contributes to society,” said State Board of Education President Tess
Elshoff. “By meeting the needs of the whole child, we’re giving
children tools for success that will last far beyond their years in
Ohio’s preK-12 education system. I’m proud of the State Board of
Education’s work on this plan and excited to strengthen the
partnerships essential for implementing the plan.”
“The education of Ohio’s students is everyone’s business, and the most
exciting part of building this plan was seeing the engagement of
partners from every corner of the state who care about student
success,” said DeMaria. “Each Child, Our Future provides a clear
direction to help make our education system the best it can be for
Ohio’s 1.7 million schoolchildren.”
State Senator Peggy Lehner (Kettering), State Representative Andrew
Brenner (Powell) and Ohio’s 2018 Teacher of the Year Jonathan Juravich
(Liberty Tree Elementary, Olentangy Local School District) helped
launch the plan at a morning press conference, which was followed by a
day-long school bus tour. The bus tour featured three Central Ohio
learning sites: a high-tech robotics, engineering and advanced
manufacturing training program at Tolles Career and Technical Center in
Plain City; effective approaches to school leadership, social-emotional
learning and integrated student support services at Etna Road
Elementary School in Whitehall; and high-quality after-school learning
programs at the Columbus Museum of Art.
“I am most enthused that educators in the field were highly invested in
the process to develop Each Child, Our Future,” said Juravich. “With
the four equal learning domains, traditional academic areas are equal
to well-rounded content, leadership and social-emotional learning in
the development of students as human beings. This strategic plan
amplifies the good work being done in classrooms across Ohio to support
the development of the whole child.”
The five-year plan recognizes that equity continues to be Ohio’s
greatest education challenge — making sure each child has access to
relevant and challenging academic experiences and resources across
race, gender, ethnicity, language, disability, family background and/or
income. The plan also stresses the importance of partnerships and
quality schools. It identifies one goal focused on student success
after high school and 10 supporting strategies that address excellent
educators, standards for students, accountability for learning,
supports for the whole child, expanding early learning and transforming
the high school experience.
This plan was built by Ohioans for Ohioans. Started by Superintendent
DeMaria and the State Board of Education in the summer of 2017, more
than 150 Ohio-based partners rolled up their sleeves to develop the
plan. Moreover, an additional 1,200 Ohio citizens attended 13 regional
meetings across the state to review the plan and provide feedback. In
total, more than 1,300 Ohioans had a hand in crafting the plan.
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