Dayton Public Schools

So through Sinclair College, where I'm a trustee, we're looking at the Integrative Technology Education Center, where they're actually getting to hands-on understand the applicability of AI and cybersecurity and all those elements into like, how's it go into manufacturing, healthcare, et cetera.

Through Dayton Public Schools for Next Generation Learning Community, we are focused there on every student, developing academies, all means all, giving every student a guaranteed experience to understand what it is to commit to and understand a pathway and be able to work in those areas.

And I'll just add

to that really quickly that it's important for our students to understand there's a lot of pathways for them.

The attendance to connect is nearly 13,000 students to real world opportunities and future careers.

Take a look.

It's a new day at Dayton Public Schools as a new year begins and a new approach has taken hold.

Back to our conversation of like a math teacher, the English teacher, a history teacher, a science teacher.

My name is Kevin O'Donnell.

I'm a social studies teacher at Meadowdale Career Tech in Dayton Public Schools, where we produce the Youth Voter Guide, and outside of that, I coordinate Bilingual Nation, which is a language learning co-op here in Dayton.

All right.

And Robert?

Um, so tell us a little bit about growing up in Dayton.

Uh, you went through Dayton public schools.

What, what was it like growing up in Dayton, uh, in the '80s, late '70s and '80s?

It was kinda wild.

Yeah.

It, um...

I don't know what your experience was like growing up in Dayton Public, but m- the schools that I went to were essentially split down the middle, almost like Dayton is.

They were, like, 50% white, 50% Black pretty much across the board.

NPR named the districts.

Dayton Public Schools in Ohio spent $72,600 last year on school AI tools, including a social-emotional chatbot called Jordan at its alternative school, and renewed for $78,650.

The superintendent, David Lawrence, is confident history will say the district was ahead of the curve.

An outside consultant told NPR that whenever he tries to measure the results, he only gets as far as perception.

And what I'm hearing is there are lots of partners that help Omega and what really make it work.

For example, I looked on their website and they have over 40 partners, just to name a few, Learn to Earn, Dayton Public Schools, Dayton Children's Hospital, the library, the YMCA, Goodwill Easterseals, Miami Valley.

And you might wonder, well, what are these partners doing? In Learn to Earn's case, as you heard earlier in the broadcast, they helped Residents create a vision for Northwest Dayton, like what are their hopes and dreams? For Dayton Children's, as Amiko mentioned, that it has a pediatric center in the Hope Center that focuses on medical and mental health care, and the Dayton Metro Library hosts events like Hope Market, which connects residents to wellness and education and other local programs.

And, you know, they've built all of these things within such a short time.

They got to get set up.

The event is held in collaboration with CIXA, CareSource, and the University of Dayton and Dayton Public Schools.

CIXA will have pet food available for cats and dogs.

So if you are dealing with hunger and you need food for your family or yourself or whatever it might be, make sure you're there this Thursday, 10 a.m. to noon at UD Arena.