About Ohio Value-Added High Schools

Battelle for Kids’ Ohio Value-Added High Schools is a three-year pilot initiative to enable high schools to benefit from providing value-added information to administrators, teachers and counselors. This value-added information will help focus professional development, can inform decisions regarding curriculum and the operations of teacher teams and allows for the quantifiable identification of highly effective high school teachers, capturing their best practices and making those practices known to other educators.

Forty-four Ohio high schools are participating in this important initiative to develop and implement a model for transforming high schools with a goal of ensuring all students are college- and career-ready upon graduation.

Battelle for Kids’ Ohio Value-Added High Schools is supported by a $4.7 million three-year grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and a $650,000 grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

To learn more, contact Mark Black, Director, Ohio Value-Added High Schools: mblack@BattelleforKids.org, or (614) 481-3141.