Bill Lecher, Senior Clinical Director, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
After changing careers, Bill Lecher helps others along the path toward health care jobs.
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Matthew Sableski, Technology coordinator, Dayton Early College Academy
What happens behind the scenes to keep DECA running smoothly? The school’s tech guru handles far more than details.
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Gwen Gilmore, Teacher, Lorain County Early College
Math teacher is inspired by turning points – her own and those of her students.
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Mona Al-Hayani, teacher, Toledo Early College High School
After several years of working at traditional urban schools, Mona Al-Hayani is happy to have found a teaching environment that supports her belief in the importance of small classes, collaboration, interdisciplinary teaching and innovative lesson plans. As her second year at Toledo Early College High School begins, she is focused on her goal of helping her students “believe they’re capable of achieving great things.”
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Christiaan Colston, Dayton Early College Academy graduate
Christiaan Colston wanted a different high school experience. Now that she’s graduated from Ohio’s first early college high school, does she think she made the right decision?
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Sonya Williams, parent, Columbus Africentric Early College
Sonya Williams has a demanding full-time job, is working toward a degree and serves as a parent consultant at her children's school. Find out why she makes time in her full-to-the-brim schedule to be “Mama” to other kids.
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RoseMarie “Rosey” Wagner, Lorain County Early College High School
Reach before you teach. That’s the philosophy RoseMarie Wagner brings to her job as academic advisor and counselor at Lorain County Early College High School – one she learned from Native American school children.
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Diane Smith, Southview Pride School, Lorain
Twenty years of experience and a family tradition of teaching keep Lorain Southview social studies teacher Diane Smith’s eyes on what she sees as the prize: a world where socioeconomic status bears no influence on the quality of education.
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Jean King-Battle, Teacher, PRIDE School
A veteran teacher finds a home – and a mission – for herself at Cleveland Heights’ PRIDE School. Jean King-Battle compares her role in developing student leaders to that of a pied piper.
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Marcia Haire-Ellis, Counselor, Youngstown Early College
When Marcia Haire-Ellis was in high school, she always did well in math, and imagined that one day she might become an engineer. But a school counselor discouraged the young African-American woman from that path, suggesting that counseling might be a better career option.
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Tim Bollin, Teacher, Toledo Early College High School
How do you teach biology without lab equipment? Toledo Early College High School teacher Tim Bollin can show you. Last year Bollin worked with a team of other teachers to create an innovative project-based biology curriculum for the new school, but lab equipment wasn’t scheduled to arrive until the second year. So Bollin found new ways to challenge his students and prepare them for the college-level classes they would take through the school’s partnership with the University of Toledo.
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Louise Barr, Second-Year Student, Dayton Early College Academy (DECA)
Even among the diverse student population of Dayton Early College Academy, Louise Barr stands out. The bright, energetic second-year student has a lively personality and tends to excel in every class, but enthusiasm and academic success are hardly unusual at this innovative public school.
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Janet Beening, Libbey High School
When you walk into her room you know immediately. From the zillions of student photos taped to the panes. From the kids clumped in groups of three or four. From the way the teacher pushes in the CD and slides on top of a desk. She’s one of them. One of the good ones.
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Maygan Hulbert, Lorain , Early College High School
If Maygan Hulbert appears nervous, you can’t really tell. Like her Early College High School peers, she is getting ready to lay it on the line. Her grade in her Introduction to Theater college class depends on participating in the Annual Forensics Tournament, classwork and a later final. It’s December 1. On a night like this Maygan would normally be home studying. Instead, she is pacing the hallways of Lorain County Community College’s Spitzer Center waiting to perform a piece she’s written.
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Paulette Dewey, Toledo Early College High School, (TECHS)
Paulette Dewey is stalking the length of her silent classroom, walking among her 23 high school freshmen at Toledo Early College High School (TECHS).
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Nastacia Moore, Third-Year Student, Dayton Early College Academy (DECA)
Nastacia Moore admits that she came to Dayton Early College Academy (DECA) with fairly low expectations. Leaving a large traditional public school to join a charter class of fewer than 100 students in one of the nation’s first early college high schools seemed like a chancy prospect at best.
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Becky Aicher, Teacher/Advisor, DECA (Dayton Early College Academy)
Becky Aicher’s teaching career began 26 years ago with special education. Now she finds herself teaching innovative, interdisciplinary units to high school students at Dayton Early College Academy. Near retirement, Aicher says that she’s finding her work "really fulfilling," adding, "I feel so lucky that I’m going out with a bang."
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Patricia Johnson, Professor, University of Dayton
How does one teach college philosophy to high school students? Long-time University of Dayton Professor Patricia Johnson just received her first Dayton Early College Academy student.
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Jerannetta Nelson, Dayton Early College Academy, Freshman
After only a few months at the Dayton Early College Academy, fourteen-year-old Jerannetta Nelson has already noticed the differences between her old public high school and this new Early College high school. For starters, DECA has math and science classes together. And then there is the homework, which Jerannetta never liked. "I used to wait until the last minute," she says. "I'll bring my work home now."
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