The Ohio Community Collaboration Model

Now more than ever, schools must recognize that they are not autonomous. Rather we are collaborative partners with families, business, churches, and community agencies on the collective mission to educate our children. It should be our goal, all of us in this room, to work together to help prepare the children of our community to meet the challenges they will face in their post-secondary employment, school, or military careers. We must help them be ready to tackle the issues that not only our community, but our nation, and our country are going to be facing in this next generation and beyond. The Ohio Community Collaboration Model has so aptly discovered that essentially, no longer may we, the school alone, be responsible for the academic