Home Communitiesof Learners
Partners Staff Links Administration MessageBoard About
Contacts
THE Consortium
Phone: 614-447-0844
FAX: 614-447-9043
THE Consortium Partners
- Region Vb Head Start Quality Network (Q-Net)
- Part of a national network of federally-funded training and technical assistance organizations dedicated to enhancing the quality of Head Start organizations and their partners
- Provides critical personnel and organizational support to THE Consortium
- Ohio Department of Education, Division of Early Childhood Education
- The state of Ohio provides over $97 million dollars annually to expand the enrollment of Head Start eligible children within existing grantees, for a total of over 60,000 Head Start children within the state. ODE is responsible for this effort and QNet represents the major vehicle for its technical assistance effort relative to state-funded Head Start.
- Ohio Family Literacy Statewide Initiative
- Serves as the organization that coordinates and provides oversight to approximately 100 Even Start programs and other family literacy programs within Ohio communities. Will serve as a resource for locating corresponding state-level and federal family literacy initiatives in Indiana and Illinois.
- Will seek to identify what can be seen as family literacy activities, and to move these activities toward partnerships that create full-service family literacy activities.
- rise Learning SolutionsTM
- Designs, produces, and delivers interactive, satellite television broadcast and video course content
- Conducts course presentations and lecture content designed by various faculty and delivered to the COL's through the Ohio Help Me Grow satellite dish network
- Provides web-based learning activities designed as a collaboration between RISE, QNet and faculty
- Ohio Coalition for Associate Degree Early Childhood Programs
- This association of 2-year higher education organizations provides a critical link to accomplish the academic goals of the project participants and the opportunity to transform early childhood teacher education to be more technology-oriented and culturally responsive.
- Ohio Higher Education Consortium for Inclusive Early Childhood Education
- This consortium of 4-year higher education organizations provides an important component to achieve the academic goals of the project participants as well as the opportunity to transform early childhood teacher education to be more technology-oriented and culturally responsive.
- Ohio Community Computer Center Network (OCCCN).
- Will help local programs submit a mini-grant application to the Project, identify a nearby technology center partner, and develop plans to provide a distance learning home for their community of learners
- This partnership will enhance the capacity of community technology centers to offer access to a sophisticated distance learning environment and will support Family Literacy programs in promoting the functional literacy of parent and teacher participants.