Fifty percent of new teachers in urban schools leave the profession in the first five years. Many are unprepared for the realities of inner city communities. This project will develop a CD-ROM to be used in Columbus Public Schools orientation programs, in OSU teacher preparation classes and educational technology classes, and will serve as a model to teachers of culturally relevant teaching through technology.
Rick Voithofer, Ph.D., Assistant Professor Cynthia Tyson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor Maria Palazzi,
Associate Professor Ian Butterfield, Animation Specialist
Graduate Research Assistants: Barb Olsafsky, Beth Novak, Hae-Kyung Ko, Jeff Ostergaard, Terry Hubbard
Partnership:
The Ohio State University
The School for Educational Policy Leadership
The School of Teaching and Learning
The Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD)
The Columbus Public Schools (CPS)
The Columbus Education Association (CEA)
Funding provided by:
The Battelle Endowment for Technology and
Human Affairs (BETHA)
