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Family Engagement

Family and Community Engagement

SST 7’s Family and Community Corner is designed to provide resources and supports for families, community members, and school personnel to optimize teaching and learning for all learners. Use the red menu on the left to navigate to these resources. If you can’t find what you are looking for or have a question, please contact SST 7 for support by using the contact information to the right.

R.A. Horn Outstanding Achievement Award and Franklin B. Walter Outstanding Educator Award 2025

State Support Team Region 7 has the distinct honor to recognize many educator nominees whose instruction, learning environment design, or through some other action resulted in students, specifically students with disabilities, making significant gains in their academic and/or non-academic pursuits in Region 7. In addition, SST7 was able to honor many student nominees that demonstrated areas of achievement and performance.

R. A. Horn Outstanding Achievement Award Nominees	Franklin B. Walter Outstanding Educator Award Nominees
Carter Watkins, Shiloh Middle School	Laura Click, Shiloh Middle School
Evelyn Crawford, Carey High School	Jacquelyn Lininger, Carey High School
Alec Grubbs, Carey High School	Jacquelyn Lininger, Carey High School
Lacie Kirk, Galion Primary School	Elizabeth Freeman, Galion Primary School
Peter Heath, Budd Elementary School	Heather Geiser, Loudonville Schools
Waylon Murphy, East Knox Elementary	Allison Bennett, East Knox Elementary
C.J. Starling, Highland Middle School	Amber Billings, Highland Middle School
Julius Neely, Ontario Middle School
Aleigha Hord, Galion Intermediate School	Paula Seng, Galion Intermediate School
Julian Myers, Goal Digital Academy
Layla Brown, Colonel Crawford High School
Katie Isaac, Madison High School	Bill Roth, Madison High School
Shaun Arthur, Galion Middle School	Dorothy Sharrock, Galion Middle School

In addition, SST7 is proud to announce the winners of the R.A. Horn Outstanding Achievement Award and the Franklin B. Walter Outstanding Educator Award, Evelyn Crawford and Jacquelyn Lininger of Carey Exempted Village Schools.

Ohio Statewide Family Engagement Center at the Ohio State University Bi-Monthly Digital Newsletter

The Ohio Statewide Family Engagement Center at OSU has started a free bi-monthly digital newsletter called Family-to-Family Newsletter. Sign up here to be able to start receiving the newsletters today.

The newsletter is intended for parents and caregivers of children from kindergarten to 12th grade and will include success stories, tools, tips, and resources to assist with family engagement, student success, and school/community connection.

Family and Community Engagement Resources

The Ohio Statewide Family Engagement Center at the Ohio State University:

https://ohiofamiliesengage.osu.edu/

National Network of Partnership Schools John Hopkins University:

https://ohiofamiliesengage.osu.edu/resources/the-national-network-of-partnership-schools-an-evidence-based-family-engagement-program/

The Ohio Department of Education and Workforce:

https://education.ohio.gov/

Anne Ditlevson

Ed Kapel