Shades of Green
May 21, 2009

Photos, from top left, Principal Cynthia Ball admires a thematic door decorated by her students; top right, Cranbrook students read a poem as they plant Dawn Redwood trees on Arbor Day. Background image: Thousands of plastic bottle caps are being collected as part of a massive competition among classrooms.
by Julia Harris
Many good ideas never mature past the “Oh! What a good idea!” phase.
But for the students and teachers at Cranbrook Elementary, a small school within walking distance of campus, a good idea hatched by employees in the business operations arm of Ohio State’s Office of Business and Finance has germinated into a fruitful partnership. Continue reading ‘Shades of Green’
Tags: cover > cranbrook elementary > environment > green > outreach > sustainability
Not just kids’ play: OSU Kid Corps takes on early literacy for Columbus preschoolers
March 4, 2009
By Julia Harris
Aaron Robertson knows he can’t make every preschooler in the Columbus metropolitan area fall in love with reading. But that doesn’t stop him — and about 90 Ohio State students — from trying.
For the past four years, Robertson has been spearheading a group called OSU Kid Corps, an intrepid and steadily growing band of college students who work with local preschool providers to develop early literacy skills. Continue reading ‘Not just kids’ play: OSU Kid Corps takes on early literacy for Columbus preschoolers’

Mo Yee Lee is a professor in the College of Social Work.
Doug Dangler, associate director of the Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing
