OVEC/UofL Partnership
OVEC collaborates with the CEHD on facilitating teacher recruitment, leadership initiatives, and faculty research efforts.
Supports and Initiatives
- Closing the Achievement Gap
- Adolescent Literacy
- Mathematics - Middle/High
- Leadership - Aspiring Principals' Academy
Contacts:
Dr. Penny B Howell
CEHD, Nystrand Center of Excellence in Education
Office: 502-852-0598
E-mail: penny.howell@louisville.edu
Chrissy Jones, Chief Academic Officer and Deputy CEO
Ohio Valley Educational Cooperative
P.O. Box 1249, 100 Alpine Drive
Shelbyville, KY 40066
Office: 502-647-3533, x266
E-mail: cjones@ovec.org
- Educator Recruitment Fairs, Field Placement, and Student Teacher Placements - Cody Windhorst, 502-852-6412
- Alternative Certification - Stefanie Wooten-Burnett, 502-852-0623
- Math Cadres - Chrissy Jones
- Math MATTERS Advisory Committee - Chrissy Jones
- Collaboration with Special Education - Terry Scott, 502-852-0576 and Carrie Beerdon, 502-647-3533, ext 218
- Collaboration with Kentucky Autism Training Center (KATC) - (Design and implement cadres)
- Continuing Education Option (CEO) (Rank Change)
- National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Certification (NBC) (Rank Change) - Sarah Monarch, 502-647-3533, ext 229
- Ed.D Practitioner's Cohort - Debbie Powers, 502-852-6428
- Serve on University Educator Preparation Committee
- Attend CEHD Teaching and Learning Department meetings
- Serve on grant committees
The partnership has also created a coordinated mechanism for OVEC districts and schools to be provided services by the UofL College of Education and Human Development faculty and for the faculty to have access to OVEC districts and schools for research or services. Follow the link for a Research Request or Service Request through the UofL site. It provides a form to be completed and sent to Chrissy Jones at OVEC or to Dr. Penny B. Howell at the CEHD. Instructions are given at the web site. Once the information on the form is reviewed, the Request for Research or Services will be processed.
Collaborative Work Update
- OVEC Head Start/Early Head Start/Childcare Partnership Grant - this grant, in partnership with CEHD Early Learning faculty, Dr. Kathy Whitmore and Diana Zink, provides training to all OVEC staff and childcare partners to obtain Child Development Associate (CDA) status in a timely manner. The partnership has been recognized as a national model.
- OVEC and district staff visit UofL/CEHD classes to recruit teachers for the OVEC region and share information about expectations and hiring processes.
- An OVEC representative is being trained to work with the CEHD team on a co-teaching model for CEHD student field experiences.
- OVEC representatives and district staff attended the UofL/CEHD Recruitment Fair, and CEHD representatives attended the OVEC Educator Recruitment Fair, encouraging their students to attend as well.
- CEHD faculty attend the OVEC/Jefferson County/KSB Science and Social Studies Teacher Leaders Networks.
- CEHD faculty serve as facilitators for the Instructional Support Leadership Networks, and Science and Social Studies Leader Content Networks.
- OVEC representatives provide letters of support for CEHD faculty pursuing grants.
- OVEC representatives serve on the CEHD Clinical Supervision and Field Placement Advisory Committee.
- OVEC schools serve as field placements for CEHD students.
- CEHD faculty member, Dr. Maggie McGatha, serves as the Cognitive Coach National Trainer for the OVEC region. She is also the Adaptive Schools trainer.
- CEHD representative, Dr. Harrie Buecker, attends REL Training Sessions with the districts where "future ready skill" are measured and defined for the schools.