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Eleven candidates have applied so far to lead the Marlington Local School District for the next year.

The school board has been searching for a new superintendent since Joe Knoll, who has served as Marlington's superintendent since 2012, was hired last month as superintendent of the Canfield Local School District.

The school board will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday for its regular board meeting. The meeting will be steamed lived on the Marlington Technology Department Youtube channel. The board held a closed-door emergency meeting Wednesday to discuss the superintendent position but did not take any public action.

According to the district's job posting, the school board is searching for an interim superintendent for roughly one year to lead the district of 2,500 students and 150 certified and 125 classified employees and to oversee the district's budget of roughly $20 million. The posting states the board will continue to accept applications until the position is filled.

As of Monday, 11 candidates have submitted a letter of interest, according to records obtained by The Canton Repository through a public records request.

The candidates include:

* Brad Beun, director of special services at Springfield Local Schools since 2013.

* Michael A. Chaffee, principal of the junior/senior high school in Newbury Local Schools since 2015.

* David Harmon, former superintendent of Benjamin Logan Local Schools.

* Craig D. Hockenberry, superintendent of the Three Rivers Local School District since 2015.

* Edwin S. Holland, adjunct professor at Cleveland State University and Kent State University's main campus who teaches graduate courses on school finance and resource management for aspiring school building principals and district administrators.

* Trent Miller, assistant middle school principal at Lima City Schools.

* Todd S. Osborn, superintendent of Chippewa Local Schools since 2018.

* Sarah Patterson, assistant principal at Circleville City School District since 2018.

* Michael R. Shreffler, former Northwest Local superintendent who has been serving as an educational consultant since 2019.

* Matthew C. Unger, high school principal at Wilmington City Schools since 2018.

* Steven Viscounte, retired superintendent of United Local Schools who was a teacher at Marlington for seven years before serving as an administrator at Marlington from 1994 to 2012.
Reach Kelli at 330-580-8339 or kelli.weir@cantonrep.com. On Twitter: @kweirREP

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Eleven candidates have applied so far to lead the Marlington Local School District for the next year. The school board has been searching for a new superintendent since Joe Knoll, who has served as Marlington's superintendent since 2012, was hired last month as superintendent of the Canfield Local School District.

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Three Rivers Local School District - departments

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Craig Hockenberry grew up in Northeastern Ohio in the small town of Malvern. After graduating from high school in 1990, he was recruited to play football at the College of Mount St. Joseph. He was part of the school's first football team and played for legendary Coach, John Pont. After graduating from Mount St. Joseph in 1995 with an undergraduate degree in Elementary Education, Craig immediately began teaching at Roosevelt School in the Cincinnati Public School system. During his short time at Roosevelt, he attended night school at Xavier University, receiving a graduate degree in Educational Administration. He then enrolled at the University of Cincinnati where he began work on his Ph.D. in Urban Education.

After Roosevelt School closed in 1998, he was named Assistant Principal of Oyler School in Lower Price Hill. After two years, he was promoted to Principal. During his last 10 years at Oyler, the school transformed from a K-6 school to a full-service PreK-12 Community Learning Center. The school elevated from Academic Emergency to Academic Watch to Continuous Improvement and, most importantly, was graduating students from a community that once held the highest dropout rate in the City of Cincinnati. In 2009, Craig was named the Cincinnati Public School Administrator of the Year and received the James N. Jacobs Award for Outstanding Administration. Also in 2009, he was the recipient of the 2009 Dream Makers Award from the Cincinnati Youth Collaborative (CYC) for his school's work in building partnerships. Additionally, he was named Lower Price Hill Man-of-the-Year for his work in the community of Lower Price Hill and went on to later be named The King of Price Hill.

Craig lives in West Price Hill with his wife, Erin, and their three children: Vivian, Gino, & Rocco. His personal interests include traveling, running, following college football, and, of course, spending every minute he can with his family. He was the President-elect of the Price Hill/Western Hills Kiwanis Club. He is a Leadership Cincinnati Alumnus Class #39, and a member of the Cincinnatus Association. He was a member of the Price Hill Civic Club, the East Price Hill Property Owners Association, Lower Price Hill Community Council, and served on the board of directors at Santa Maria Community Services, Price Hill Will, and the Queensgate Business Alliance. He currently is a member of the Western Hills Community Service Club, the Cleves-Three Rivers Kiwanis Club, and the Western Economic Council. In 2015, he was appointed to the advisory boards for Mount St. Joseph University and Xavier University.

On Saturday, May 11, 2013, Craig received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from the College of Mount St. Joseph and delivered the 2013 commencement address.

His 15 years of work and dedication at Oyler School was nationally recognized for an entire year on Marketplace/National Public Radio (NPR) in a series titled "One School, One Year..." Craig has had the opportunities to speak across the nation about leadership, education, and community leader centers.

After 19 years working in Cincinnati Public Schools, Craig was named the Superintendent of Manchester Local Schools in Adams County. Adams County is the 2 nd poorest county in the State of Ohio and one of Ohio's most rural school districts. After 2 years, Craig returned to Hamilton County and was named Superintendent of The Three Rivers Local School District.

Currently serving as the District's Superintendent, Mr. Hockenberry continues to ensure student achievement. In 2016, Three Rivers Local School District received the Momentum Award under his leadership. This award recognizes schools that have received A's on every value-added measure included on the State Report Card. Three Rivers was one of only five districts to be awarded in 2016. Mr. Hockenberry also led the administrative team to identify the District's Core Values: Cultivate Excellence, Nurture Inclusion, and Inspire Innovation. The District continues to push the pace with innovation and best practices for student achievement under his leadership.

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Craig Hockenberry grew up in Northeastern Ohio in the small town of Malvern. After graduating from high school in 1990, he was recruited to play football at the College of Mount St. Joseph. He was part of the school's first football team and played for legendary Coach, John Pont.

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Craig Hockenberry : Launching Board Development

Convincing your bosses that they need professional development is never an easy task, but as a superintendent it is clearly part of your job. It is easy when a newly elected board member joins the team to let them know that they need to attend an OSBA sponsored new board member orientation, but letting them know that we need a yearlong professional development structure in the evenings off campus is a challenge.

It was not a difficult decision to start the board development as two board members were spending their time focusing on things that were outside of their role as a board members. The trainings occurred off campus at places such as Cincinnati State, Western Hills Country Club, the Three Rivers Campus, Forward Edge, and other places around Cincinnati. I understood that regardless of the training the two board members had the right to act however they wanted, but might does not make right so the plan was to give them another perspective through a yearlong training session.

Everyone did great and the training was done by one of the most professional leaders in Board Development in the entire region. I personally learned a lot and was thankful to go through the experience. Each session was built around setting goals and supporting the leadership of the district to accomplish the goals. This idea was to make Three Rivers a better district. After each session, I saw several board members get better and I saw a much different board.

I did similar development at Manchester Local, but most of the training was done in the form of retreats that last several hours and we always focused on a single topic we wanted to improve on such as; school law, community engagement, dealing with complaints, and other pressing issues.

In 2018-2019 school year we spent almost $600,000 in professional development for our staff to improve practices and develop our workforce, but I found it interesting that leading up to 2018-2019 we spent $0.00 (not a single cent) on developing board members.

The money we spent on board development was worth it as board members are critical in the success of local school districts. Like teachers and other staff board members should also get top quality training and professional development.

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Craig Hockenberry : Launching Board Development Convincing your bosses that they need professional development is never an easy task, but as a superintendent it is clearly part of your job.

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Live from Leadership ONE: Superintendent Craig Hockenberry

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Listen to the sounds of Oyler. It's full of stories. Pre-school, grade school, high school. Teachers, administrators, parents and mentors. In the past year, they all have had stories to tell. The Principal, who has seen the school through 15 years of changes. The English teacher who finally has a shiny new classroom. The service coordinator who sends students home with food for the weekend. The eighth grader who worries that he won't look cool in his new glasses. The prom couple and their frantic final dash to get ready. And the senior, as she steps onto a college campus, for the first time. Here are their stories and more as heard on Marketplace radio:

Leading the change at Oyler School

Just after dawn, Principal Craig Hockenberry stands outside Oyler School like a beacon in his lime green shirt and sky blue tie, greeting students as they line up to go inside. It's the first day back at the old school after two years away. Oyler had moved up the hill a mile or so during a $21 million renovation.

"Today's going to be crazy getting used to the new building, but we'll get it," he tells students. "Each day will get better and better, okay?"

The first day of school marks the end of a tough summer in a tough neighborhood. Just before the break, a fifth-grade student and her mother were stabbed to death. Then an Oyler parent was murdered right across the street from the school. White styrofoam cups still spell out his name -- Brian -- in the chain link fence. Hockenberry says during the two years the school was closed for renovation, the drugs and violence in Lower Price Hill got worse.

"I could walk you outside the door, not even 15 steps away, and I could probably get just about any drug that I want," he says. "I could walk you another 15 feet down and there are our parents that are prostituting and are hooked on heroine and crack cocaine -- parents that used to be on my PTA."

Lower Price Hill is a small neighborhood of brick row houses overlooking the Ohio River. The culture is known as Urban Appalachian. When coal mining jobs in Kentucky and West Virginia dried up after World War II, many families came here for factory jobs. But those are mostly gone, too. Many get by on welfare and food stamps.

Donna Jones has lived here, off and on, her whole life. "Families that have been here a long time have married other families," she says. Brian Thompson, the Oyler parent who was shot during the summer, was her son-in-law's brother. "I consider us a close-knit community," she says.

Oyler School -- with its long history and imposing brick and terra cotta architecture -- looms large in that community. Jones went there. So did her kids, and now grandkids. "It's more than a school," she says. "It's like the hub of activity."

That is no accident. Oyler is what's known as a community learning center. It's part of a growing movement in education that says if you're going help poor kids succeed in school, you have to fight the effects of poverty. Oyler's teamed up with nonprofits and government agencies to put in a health center and a vision clinic on campus. The school is open from early morning until late at night. Kids can eat breakfast, lunch and dinner there and take home food on weekends.

The rehab created more space for all these services, and added air conditioning and real lab equipment and whiteboards*. With a new daycare and preschool, Hockenberry says Oyler now serves kids from age six weeks to 22. "In theory there should be no kid, no child or anybody in our community not getting full services here," he says.

Academically, he says, all the services are making a difference. Test scores are slowly improving, but the school has a long way to go. This year Hockenberry has another goal. "I want to start working on the neighborhood," he says. He wants the boards to start coming down off the houses, and the drug dealers to leave. "I want people to come and see this as a great school in a great neighborhood," he says.

So, after school, he walks the streets. Still wearing his suit and tie, Hockenberry greets parents smoking on their front stoops, and hassles kids he didn't see in the halls that day. Hockenberry is a baby-faced 40-year-old. The former teacher stumbled into a job at Oyler in his mid-20s and got hooked on the challenge of turning it around. He lives nearby in Price Hill and knows pretty much everybody around here by name.

He spots a lanky young man in a glittery red tee shirt across the street. "Roy, what's up with it? Are you staying out of trouble?" Roy Lee has not been staying out of trouble. He's picked up a drug charge. Lee is 24 years old and dropped out years ago. Hockenberry pushes him to come back and finish at Oyler's online high school. "Your grandma would be so proud of you, man," he says. "You did her wrong for so long."

Lee promises to stop by the next morning at nine o'clock. Hockenberry finishes his rounds. "I really want Roy to go back to school," he says. "I'll find out if he's good for his word tomorrow." With that, he walks off to kick some older kids off the preschool playground. An ice cream truck rolls by -- a reminder of the waning summer.

The next day, Roy Lee doesn't show. But a few days later, he does.

Keeping an eye on students' eyes

Walk into Oyler, take a right past the office, go through a set of double doors, and you'll find what basically looks like a LensCrafters. There's a waiting room with a front desk and big pictures on the walls of smiling kids wearing glasses. In a small room in the back Timothy Drifmeyer -- 13 years old, with a mop of blond hair -- settles into a big doctor's chair for his first-ever eye exam.

Optometrist Beth Munzel starts with some questions. "First I want to talk to you a little bit about how you think your eyes are working," she says. "Do you feel like you see pretty well?" Timothy sees fine. He passed the initial testing with no problems. But Munzel digs deeper. When he reads, she asks, does he have to close one eye, or follow along with his finger? He uses his finger, Tim says.

That's not a good sign. At this age, Tim's eyes should be able to track across the page and jump from focusing at a distance -- say, on the chalkboard – to the book on his desk. In 7th and 8th grade, the text gets a little smaller and kids read longer passages. Tim has noticed in his English class. His teacher gave the class a novel to read. "She told us to read two to three chapters a night," he says. "I can barely read it."

Some testing explains why. It turns out Timothy's eyes are working too hard to focus when he reads. "Is it hard to remember sometimes what you're reading?" Munzel asks. He nods. Munzel explains that using so much energy just getting the words into his brain makes it harder to retain those words. And that's going to make it a lot harder to learn.

This is why an eye clinic belongs at a school, says Oyler's principal Craig Hockenberry. The eye clinic, which officially opened Oct. 12, is the latest in its arsenal of services. When kids can't see the board or read well, "it damages them all the way through," Hockenberry says. "It has a huge impact on student achievement."

It's not that kids at Oyler weren't getting their vision tested. In Ohio, as in most states, school nurses give basic eye screenings every few years. You remember – can you read the eye chart, and tell green from red? Hockenberry says every year, around 140 Oyler kids fail that screening. In the past, they got maybe one chance to ride the bus to a clinic for glasses. Kids that didn't make it that day were often out of luck.

Families at Oyler don't have a lot of money. Marilyn Crumpton with the Cincinnati Health Department says even parents with Medicaid can't always get their kids to the eye doctor. "Sometimes it's a choice between going to the grocery or taking that bus trip," she says. "Poverty interferes with children getting health care."

Now, those children can walk down the hall during lunch or gym class and take home free glasses within a week or two. The clinic is a partnership between the city and several nonprofits. One of them is a charity called OneSight. It's funded by the company that owns LensCrafters and Pearl Vision and Sunglass Hut.

OneSight's Jason Singh says within the first year, the clinic should pay for itself by billing Medicaid. "It's the first what we would call self-sustaining school-based vision center," he says. "We really hope to replicate this model nationwide." Oyler's clinic won't just treat Oyler kids. Singh says 2,000 to 3,000 students from Cincinnati public schools will come here for exams.

Now the fun part. Tim Drifmeyer gets to pick out his glasses. Technician Courthney Calvin slides open a glass case and pulls out several frames. Tim tries on pair after pair and frowns at the mirror. "These look sort of girly," he says.

At this point, I can't help but weigh in. Remember, Tim is in 8th grade – arguably the most awkward year ever. He just looks so unhappy with his choices. I point out a pair of more boyish black frames. "What about these ones that are a little more square?" I ask.

"Well, he has to get those," Calvin says, pointing to another case. "That's the case that they kind of make him choose from." Like most of the kids at Oyler, Timothy is covered by Medicaid. And Medicaid only pays for certain frames. I feel like a jerk for butting in, but Tim seems emboldened. He points to another pair.

"You see one in here?" Calvin says. "Yeah, the black and gray ones in the third row." Timothy slides on the chunky frames. "Smooth," Calvin says. "Yeah, these are the best," Tim says.

Happy, Tim heads back to class with a note from the doctor. He has permission to skip his homework thanks to the powerful eye drops he had to take. The next morning I find him back at the clinic trying on frames again. Turns out the glasses he liked he could only get in purple. "I liked them, but it just wouldn't be right for a boy," he says.

He finds a new pair – very masculine, with wire rims – he says he likes even better.

At Oyler, graduation is a neighborhood affair

It's just a few hours till graduation, and principal Craig Hockenberry steps out for one of his last walks around the neighborhood before the school year ends.

"What's up, Nate?" he says to the postman, making his rounds. "Graduation tonight," Hockenberry says. "Big party on State Street."

The neighborhood is looking good. Crews of volunteers have been clearing out trash and old tires. Hockenberry spots a row of brick houses being painted.

"We need every house done like this," he says.

Along the way, neighbors and former students try to score tickets to the ceremony. "I'll get you in, if you want to watch it," he tells a young man on a bike.

Oyler is gearing up for a crowd. This is only the fourth official class to graduate from the high school.

"People come, whether they have kids here or not," says Jami Luggen, Oyler's resource coordinator. "They just come to see the success of the kids of the neighborhood."

"It makes me a little uncomfortable because I always think of these as very solemn," says Hockenberry. "But I've also got to remember that this is more than the child graduating." It's a day that eluded that child's parents and grandparents, he says. "So have fun, Lower Price Hill."

And Lower Price Hill does not disappoint. At five o'clock, the seniors file into Oyler's packed art deco auditorium – the young men in black caps and gowns, the women in silver. A mom in shorts and a tank top crouches in front to snap pictures.

Principal Hockenberry takes the podium. "It is my pleasure and my honor to welcome you all to Oyler School, the pride of Cincinnati Public."

The pride of Cincinnati Public. It's how he answers the phone, signs his emails. It's all part of Hockenberry's campaign to turn things around at Oyler – the reality and the perception.

"There was a lot of lack of pride in this community and this neighborhood," he says. "I personally believe if you say something enough, that you slowly start to believe it."

As students have made steady progress on test scores, he says people don't laugh anymore. But he knows Oyler has a long way to go. It's ranked in the bottom five percent of schools in the state. That's partly because its official graduation rate -- the percentage of kids who start in 9th grade and finish in four years -- is so low. Less than 36 percent last year.

But of those who make it to senior year, most cross the finish line. Forty-one students this year. One by one they walk across the stage to collect their diplomas. In a back corner, the Gribbins family erupts as Raven's name is called. Her father, grandfather and grandmother all went to Oyler. None of them finished school.

A week before graduation, Raven was accepted at Penn State's Greater Allegheny campus. She wants to study math and education. There's still the very real question of how to pay for it. Even after grants and government loans, she still needs to come up with $11,000 for next year. Which probably means more debt. She sees it as the price of a better life.

"If you don't have a college degree you're always living paycheck to paycheck, struggling, and then you always end up doing something you don't want to do," she says. "So when you go get your degree, then you could do what you'd like to do."

Most of Raven's classmates plan to attend at least some college. A few are headed for apprenticeships or trade school. About a third will go straight into the workforce. But a lot can happen over the summer. Just before the ceremony, Hockenberry ran into one of his most promising seniors from last year. College didn't work out.

"I see kids that graduated from Oyler that just -- they didn't make it," he says. "So now instead of being a dropout...they're walking the streets and doing drugs with a diploma."

After the ceremony, everyone pours out onto Hatmaker Street. A few families fire up some barbecues for a cookout in the parking lot. The celebration is tinged with sadness. The night before an Oyler parent -- with kids in preschool and kindergarten -- was shot and killed in front of his house.

Hockenberry says there's less violent crime in the neighborhood since the school reopened this year after its renovation -- but it's never far away.

"Even though we make a lot of progress here, we take steps back often," he says. "That's the challenge here in the inner city."

He'll be back next year to take up the challenge again. After the budget uncertainty a few months ago, the district renewed his contract -- with a paycut. He's already cooking up plans for next year: a dental clinic inside the school and a barber shop.

And as we talk for the last time this school year, another idea takes shape.

"It's almost like we need an office of postsecondary, you know what I mean, to follow the kids -- especially now that we're in the hundreds."

Kids that a decade ago may never have finished high school.

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Listen to the sounds of Oyler. It's full of stories. Pre-school, grade school, high school. Teachers, administrators, parents and mentors. In the past year, they all have had stories to tell. The Principal, who has seen the school through 15 years of changes. The English teacher who finally has a shiny new classroom.

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September 24, 2016
Craig Hockenberry, leader of transformation at Oyler School in Cincinnati, to visit Mayville State

We will have the distinct pleasure of welcoming Craig Hockenberry to Mayville State University Monday, Oct. 17 and Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016. Hockenberry is the former principal at Oyler School in Lower Price Hill of Cincinnati (Ohio) Public Schools. He led a transformation of the school and the neighborhood. He left Oyler School in 2013 to become superintendent at Manchester (Ohio) Local Schools. The district includes Manchester High School and Manchester Elementary.

The story of Principal Craig Hockenberry's mission to transform Oyler School, located in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Cincinnati, to a "community learning center" that provides services for the entire neighborhood is the subject of a film. "OYLER: One School, One Year" is a documentary film by Amy Scott that shows day-to-day activities at Oyler School during the 2012-2013 school year.

Before 2006, very few kids from Lower Price Hill finished high school, much less went to college. The neighborhood is Urban Appalachian - an insular community with roots in the coal mining towns of Kentucky and West Virginia. The local Oyler School only offered classes through eighth grade. After that, rather than ride the bus out of the neighborhood for high school, most kids dropped out.

Under long-time Principal Craig Hockenberry's leadership, Oyler School was dramatically transformed and now serves kids from preschool through twelfth grade. Oyler is open year-round, from early morning until late at night. The school provides breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and sends hungry kids home with food on weekends. Students can walk down the hall to access a health clinic, vision center, and mental health counseling.

​The documentary highlights challenges and the slow transformation of the school and community in a troubled neighborhood after its renovated, permanent building opened in 2012. Hockenberry is shown spending long hours in and out of the school, engaging the community and promoting improvements. "OYLER" takes viewers through a year at the school, focusing on Hockenberry's mission and on senior Raven Gribbins' quest to be the first in her troubled family to finish high school and go to college. When Hockenberry's job is threatened, it becomes clear it's a make-or-break year for both of them.

"There were no easy days in Lower Price Hill, but thanks to hardworking students, parents, staff, and the community of supporters, Oyler accomplished things many would have believed impossible," Hockenberry said in a letter to Oyler School staff and supporters announcing his decision to become superintendent at Manchester in 2013.

During his tenure at Oyler School, which began in 2001, Hockenberry forged more than 130 public and private partnerships to provide services that benefitted the Price Hill community inside and outside of Oyler.

We invite you to attend the screening of "OYLER" Monday, Oct. 17 at 6 p.m. The film will be shown in the Mayville State University Classroom Building Auditorium. Everyone is welcome.

After the screening, Craig Hockenberry will host an open discussion and question and answer forum.

Hockenberry will spend the morning of Tuesday, Oct. 18 conducting a workshop for Mayville State University students and faculty, along with area public school teachers. The workshop will cover the topic of schools and poverty and the reality of K-12 educators in the United States.

The screening of "OYLER: One School, One Year" and the appearance of Craig Hockenberry at Mayville State University is sponsored by Mayville State University's Office of Diversity and Inclusion, Byrnes-Quanbeck Library, Mayville Area Teacher Center, and the MSU Division of Education.

We hope you will join us in welcoming Craig Hockenberry to Mayville State University by attending the screening of the film on Oct. 17. For more information, contact Donalee Strand at donalee.strand@mayvillestate.edu.

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We will have the distinct pleasure of welcoming Craig Hockenberry to Mayville State University Monday, Oct. 17 and Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016. Hockenberry is the former principal at Oyler School in Lower Price Hill of Cincinnati (Ohio) Public Schools. He led a transformation of the school and the neighborhood.

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Principal Craig Hockenberry, Self: Oyler

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Craig Hockenberry is an educational professional who holds over two decades of experience, during which he has received a number of accolades, such as the CYC Dream Maker and Cincinnati Public School Principal of the Year awards. Since 2015, Craig Hockenberry has served as the Three Rivers School District's superintendent and overseen schools in Cleves, Addyston, North Bend, and Miami Township in Ohio.

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TURN AROUND EFFORTS FOCUS ON THE IMPACT OF POVERTY AT OYLER
Craig Hockenberry is a respected presence in his Ohio community who served as principal of Oyler School, a Pre-K-12 institution in Cincinnati Public Schools. Craig Hockenberry's efforts in turning around the school were recognized in "One School, One Year," a 10-part series broadcast on American Public Media's Marketplace program. Ultimately developed into the OYLER video project, the documentary focused on a transformation in the Lower Price Hill neighborhood which is demographical "Urban Appalachian." This is described as an insular community that has roots in West Virginia and Kentucky coal mining towns. Prior to 2006, few less than 12% of the children from this community made it to a 10the grade seat. As principal, Craig Hockenberry created a "community learning center." This involved year-round school accessibility, with meals provided throughout the day and hungry children sent home on the weekends with food from the Free Store Foodbank. In addition, students gained access to on-site vision care, dental care, high quality day care services, college access, health care, as well as mental health counseling. The results in addressing achievement gaps faced by low-income students were compelling. By 2012, the community had rising graduation rates and access to high quality services in one of the region's most successful community learning centers.

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TURN AROUND EFFORTS FOCUS ON THE IMPACT OF POVERTY AT OYLER Craig Hockenberry is a respected presence in his Ohio community who served as principal of Oyler School, a Pre-K-12 institution in Cincinnati Public Schools. Craig Hockenberry's efforts in turning around the school were recognized in "One School, One Year," a 10-part series broadcast on American Public Media's Marketplace program.