OhioDLA Updates & Opportunities
November News
\Forward.
Celebrating the Past.
Creating the Future.
February 14-16, 2023
Greater Columbus Convention Center
OhioDLA is excited about the upcoming OETC Conference, February 14-16, 2023, at the downtown Greater Columbus Conference Center. This annual in-person event is important to OhioDLA as a framework to recruit and generate new membership. OhioDLA is exploring many opportunities and forums to connect with teachers and program administrators normally only seen on screen! There are several ideas in action, including hosting a room exclusive to OhioDLA sessions; facilitating showcase/panels and curriculum sessions; offering a meet-and-greet platform; and of course, hosting an in-person membership meeting.
Stay tuned for more details as the conference plan evolves and solidifies.
2022 Holiday Extravaganza Virtual Reading Event
In collaboration with the OCM BOCES in New York, OhioDLA is excited to participate in a virtual reading event, the Holiday Extravaganza. Taking place on December 15-16, this two-day event features guest readers telling holiday stories every thirty minutes. School district administrators and content providers from Ohio and New York connect via Zoom and read their favorite holiday stories to multiple classrooms. The students come from a variety of cultural backgrounds and celebrate with a variety of holiday customs and traditions. Stories read to the students speak to Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and general tales of holiday spirit.
OhioDLA is looking for ITC directors, school district administrators, and content providers to give a half-hour of their time to virtually read to classrooms.
Project Timeline
November 28, 2022 — Call for readers
December 5, 2022 — Registration for classroom audiences
December 15–16, 2022 — Reading dates
For more information or to register to read, please click HERE.
Monster Match 2022
This year’s Monster Match program was a magnific success with thirty-seven teachers participating, representing thirty-one districts from Cleveland to Cincinnati. There were twenty-two monster match connections, resulting in an abundance of super-cool monsters created! The Monster Match program is a fun, collaborative project that enhances creativity, teamwork, reading, and writing. Students are placed into groups and asked to collaboratively draw a monster. Once completed the students are asked to write instructions on how to draw their monster, and instructions are exchanged between classrooms for the students to follow and create. Evaluations are being sent to participating teachers seeking feedback to make the program even more successful in 2023!
Creativity, communication, collaboration, and fun are the key elements in this annual program. To learn more about this program visit the project webpage. We would love to see your classes participate next year.
Math Marvels 2023
Math Marvels is a collaborative project targeted for grades five through eight, where students create and solve word problems in a competitive quiz bowl. Classes are partnered with other classrooms of a similar grade, and groups of students create word problems for their partner school team and solve them in a gameshow fashion during a Zoom or Meet session. Sessions are facilitated by the OhioDLA collaboration committee and other OhioDLA members. This is a fun and beneficial program for middle school math groups.
Expected Project Timeline
January 16, 2023 — Registration
January 31, 2023 — Partner pairing
February 1–10, 2023 — Student collaboration
February 6–10, 2023 — Math Marvels connections
For details on this project, how it is facilitated, or to register, click HERE.
EYE ON THE WORLD through distance learning
Promoting and fostering the formation of partnerships among schools and affiliates to further the effective use of distance learning.