97-09-24 College of Education Hosts New Superintendent

                         NEWS ADVISORY:
COLLEGE OF EDUCATION TO HOST NEW COLUMBUS SCHOOLS SUPERINTENDENT

     The Ohio State University College of Education will open the
academic year by combining its continued outreach to local school
districts with a college-wide welcome to new Columbus Public
Schools Superintendent Rosa Smith.

     Smith will speak at the College of Education’s annual all-
faculty meeting Friday, Oct. 3.  The event, planned around the
theme of “Building Local Partnerships,” will include remarks by
Smith and Nancy L. Zimpher, dean of the College of Education.
The luncheon program will begin at approximately 12:15 p.m. in
the Ohio Union Ballroom, 1739 N. High St.

     Twenty superintendents from area school districts and the
presidents of local teachers’ associations also have been invited
to attend the luncheon program.

     Smith, who was named to succeed Larry Mixon, joins the
Columbus district Sept. 29.  She had served as superintendent of
the Beloit, Wis., school district since 1993.

     Zimpher coordinates the Exchange of Services agreements
between Ohio State and cooperating school and social agencies,
and has been responsible for many relationships between these
groups.  A recent initiative is the Professional Development
School project operating in more than 50 elementary, middle and
high schools.  Master’s degree candidates spend a full year in
the schools, and the teachers of those schools serve as clinical
educators in the College of Education.  Project participants are
scheduled to attend the Oct. 3 meeting.  Zimpher also is
president of the Holmes Partnership, a national organization
leading reform in the education of teachers and the relationships
between schools, teachers and universities.

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Contact:  Susan Hersh, College of Education, (614) 688-3592.


[Submitted by: Von Vargas  (vargas.12@osu.edu)
               
Thu, 25 Sep 1997 10:07:22 -0400 (EDT)]
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