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  • Loveland High School’s Teaching Professions Academy with student Genna Scherpenberg

    Loveland High School’s Teaching Professions Academy with student Genna Scherpenberg

    The Loveland High School Teaching Professions Academy recently visited Miami University in Oxford (Photo by Elizabeth Potts)

    by Claire Mirkowski-Purdy

    Loveland, Ohio – One of the greatest aspects of Loveland High School is its Teaching Professions Academy (TPA). All students are welcome to take TPA classes. The most popular one this year is Child Development in which students learn how to properly take care of newborns and toddlers.

    Loveland’s TPA is partnered with Great Oaks, bringing genuine classroom-like experiences to high schoolers. Every TPA class is a CCP (College Credit Plus) class as well, giving students the opportunity to earn college credit for their TPA classes. Every TPA class is taught by Elizabeth Potts, a marvelous teacher who makes every aspect of TPA possible.

    A lifelong friend of mine, Genna Scherpenberg, has been taking TPA classes since her junior year. Scherpenberg explained that as a senior, she was able to earn her Para-Pro License, to be able to teach any student with a learning disability.

    TPA also goes on a surplus of noteworthy field trips. For example, TPA went on a field trip in October to the Muñoz Foundation for the GAME PLAN Youth Leadership Seminar. There were many opportunities for students to speak in small and large group discussions, and listen to speeches from Brandon Saho and Cincinatti’s Healing Center. This field trip was a great way for all TPA students to get a boost in leadership and teaching experience. Scherpenberg told me that there was a Cincinatti Reds player there too.

    Aside from TPA’s extraordinary field trips, students can also visit nearby colleges. There are scheduled visits each year for TPA students. This year, so far, they have visited Miami University and Xavier University. They are scheduled for a visit to University of Cincinnati soon too.

    Genna Scherpenberg has also been given an exemplary internship, teaching and helping third and fifth graders. During high school hours, Scherpenberg leaves third bell to visit her third graders, and during seventh bell she visits her fifth graders.

    Scherpenberg has had numerous enlightening experiences that only TPA could offer. According to Scherpenberg, her favorite thing about TPA is “its flexibility, and the ability to be able to choose to do what we want, since the class gives us a lot of leadership.” Between internships, earning a Para-Pro Lisense, getting college credit and attending seminars, it is clear that Loveland High School would not be the same without its Teaching Professions Academy.

  • Loveland’s Teaching Professions Academy competes at the 2019 EdRising Ohio conference

    Loveland’s Teaching Professions Academy competes at the 2019 EdRising Ohio conference

    Loveland, Ohio – Students from Loveland High School’s Teaching Professions Academy (TPA) competed at the 2019 Educators Rising (EdRising) Ohio State Conference at Capital University on February 28 and March 1.

    Jordan Morrison accepted the Honor Chapter award on behalf of Loveland High School Teaching Professions Academy.

    “I’m so proud of the TPA students for their great passion and performance, not only at the conference, but every day as they train for their careers in education,” said Bre Sambuchino, teacher at Loveland High School.

    Sambuchino designed and implemented the TPA during the 2017-18 school year, allowing students the opportunity to explore, expand and support their interests in an educational career path, and taking pre-education college-level course work for credit while still in high school.

    The annual EdRising Conference includes competition centered around students demonstrating their knowledge, skills and leadership in education. In both individual and team events, students are challenged to stretch their creativity, commitment and professionalism in areas such as Children’s Literature, Lesson Planning & Delivery, Public Speaking and Research Learning Challenges. The representatives from Loveland placed among the Top 10 in the categories of Children’s Literature K-3, Lesson Planning & Delivery (Humanities and STEM), Chapter Display, and Exploring Careers in Education. Loveland High School also earned recognition as an Educators Rising Honor Chapter for its chapter involvement and for creating a unique display encapsulating the 2019 conference theme “Embrace Your Super Power.”

      

     

  • Photos from the Loveland High School Senior Parade on the streets of Loveland

    Photos from the Loveland High School Senior Parade on the streets of Loveland

    Emma Dickman was “Bashful” in the Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs float today in the Loveland High School Senior Parade. She is waving at the 1st graders she has spent so much time with throughout her senior year as part of the Teaching Professions Academy.

    Loveland, Ohio – These photos were taken this morning as the Annual Senior Parade passed the campus of the Loveland Primary and Elementary schools.

    In many of the photos, you will see 1st graders holding signs. The posters were for Emma Dickman who was in the parade. This past year she has spent countless hours in Ms. Miller’s classroom teaching. Dickman is part of the academic pathways, Teaching Professions Academy at Loveland High School and will attend Ohio University in the fall.

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  • Award-winning: Loveland High School Teaching Professions Academy

    Award-winning: Loveland High School Teaching Professions Academy

    Award-winning LHS Teaching Professions Academy students with State Superintendent of Public Instruction Paolo DeMaria at the Educators Rising Conference.

    Andrea Conner is Director of Secondary Programs Loveland City School District

    By Andrea Conner

    Take 40 Loveland High School (LHS) students with a passion for education and a teacher with a vision to not only provide rich course offerings for students but also help develop future educators, and you have Loveland’s new Teaching Professions Academy (TPA). That’s right – in Loveland, we are teaching Tiger students how to become Tiger teachers for their future careers.

    This program, designed and instructed by Bre Sambuchino, gives our high school students the unique opportunity to make real-world connections between the curriculum and instructional strategies they study in this new class when they apply them to field-placement experiences within our district. From Loveland Elementary School to Loveland Intermediate School, TPA students get hands-on experience learning the different skills teachers must possess to be successful at the various levels of student development. TPA students work together to prepare real, vibrant lessons for our young Tigers – taking care and pride in representing their program with professionalism.

    A table-top sized tree quickly grew with various versions of what might be the best technique to use to create a tree that both captured the passion of the group while still making certain it was versatile enough to be transported.

    The pinnacle of the program’s successful first year was evident on March 15 when the TPA students and Ms. Sambuchino traveled to the EdRising Ohio conference at Ohio Dominican. TPA students participated in various speaking and lesson-planning competitions and worked as a group to create their chapter display with the theme “Where do we grow from here?” A table-top sized tree quickly grew with various versions of what might be the best technique to use to create a tree that both captured the passion of the group while still making certain it was versatile enough to be transported. “Their ideas continued to grow with the tree!” commented Sambuchino.

    The conference and the tree certainly delivered in true LHS TPA fashion! The tree won first place (chapter display), and LHS Senior Maddy Butts won second place in the STEM lesson planning and delivery competition teaching a robust “states of matter” lesson to her field placement class. She is now a National Qualifier, and she will be competing in Orlando, Fla., in June. In addition to these accolades, Loveland High School’s program was awarded as an Honors Chapter, one of 12 out of 64 total state chapters. The students, along with their award-winning tree, even made State Superintendent of Public Instruction Paolo DeMaria’s Twitter feed!

    Success like this isn’t based on luck. It is the result of focused, strategic effort; the LHS TPA is the first of a series of Academic Pathways the Loveland City School District is developing to prepare our students for tomorrow, today. It is our mission, in action – and – it is award-winning.

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