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News & Information from Upper Arlington

insideUPPER ARLINGTON Student Voices for Good

Upper Arlington empowers students to speak out through ideas seminar

By Maggie Ash

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Students interacted with individuals with a vested interest in what they had to say.

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Students and community members discuss topical issues relevant to the community.

friends seriously. Her nervousness didn’t last long.

“I was amazed by how much they seemed to care about three high schoolers opinions,” Shell says. “I also realized that students and adults worry about the same issues in Upper Arlington.”

This incredibly positive experience of speaking with and being affirmed by adult leaders was noticed by Moore as well.

“Many of students had shared that they had never sat across from adults who were not grading them, coaching them, or related to them and had a conversation where their voice mattered equally to the adults,” says Moore.

As empowered as her students were by The Big Table, she decided to adjust her current course’s curriculum to better match the project ideas appearing in student’s minds after the event. Although Moore originally wanted to focus on student engagement in their school, Moore decided to broaden the focus to match her student’s big ideas.

“The purpose of [the Idea Seminar] was to teach public speaking through authentic audience and authentic purpose” says Moore.

After The Big Table, students wrote speeches reviewing their experience to share

with event organizers. To Moore, this resulted in an encounter much more true-to-life than writing a speech on a random topic and sharing it with the class. Here, students were speaking to individuals with a vested interest in what they were saying.

As students excelled in this assignment, they moved on to pursue community projects such as a Diversity Festival, a student shadow position for the school board and city council, or researching problems they believed were evident in their community.

To many student’s surprise, solutions to the problems they brainstormed already existed.

But this taught them a valuable lesson too.

“The people who show up have a voice” says Moore. “A lot of them are recognizing that there are opportunities all over the place for your opinions to be heard and for your voice to be weighed in on decisions.”

Shell and her friend, Susan Glaser, are seeing through their Idea Seminar project by producing Upper Arlington’s very own Big Table event. Inspired by skills they learned in Moore’s class, such as design thinking, they hope to bond students and adults through communication and problem solving to lead to positive connections and empowering discourse in their community.

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t all began with the ambitious dream of recreating Chicago’s Ideas Week. Last year, Upper Arlington created its first annual Idea Day. The event was a major success, as this year the day has grown from being attended by 34 students, to 81 students applying to help plan it alone.

On March 22, Idea Day will take place around the theme, “Spark: Finding Inspiration,” but for some high school students, they’re living out the vision and goal for Idea Day on a regular basis.

This past fall, sophomore, junior and senior Upper Arlington students in Laura Moore’s class attended the Columbus Foundation’s The Big Table day. Moore was approached earlier by the school since her class, called an Idea Seminar, was especially applicable to The Big Table’s goal of “Community building through conversations designed to strengthen and connect Columbus.”

At The Big Table, Moore’s students sat next to community members and discussed topical issues to Columbus and it’s surrounding neighborhoods. Gabrielle Shell, one of Moore’s students, felt nervous before the event since she was unsure if adults would take her and her

News & Information from the Village of Marble Cliff

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Eagle Scout Project Educating the community

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ike most of us, Marble Cliff resident Carter Taylor was shaken by the recent mass shootings. The killing and wounding of students at Marjorie Douglas Stoneman High School in Parkland, Florida hit particularly close to home for Carter who is a student at Grandview Heights High School.

Carter set out to take a positive step to address the issue of what to do in an active shooting situation. In discussions with Carter, Marble Cliff Mayor, Kent Studebaker, commented that the question of what to do in an active shooter situation came to his mind while attending an event in the high school auditorium.

“All those students know exactly what to do if there were an active shooter,” Mayor Studebaker said. “We parents, grandparents and friends in the audience have no idea what to do.”

The result of Carter’s ideas and Mayor Studebaker’s concerns is a two-sided flyer designed by Carter and distributed by members of Boy Scout Troop 73 to every household in Marble Cliff.

Village Council supported the project financially and encouraged Carter through his efforts. The Boy Scouts of America approved the project as worthy of an Eagle Scout. Council members also agreed that the project supports Resolution R-2566-18 titled A Resolution of the Village of Marble Cliff, Ohio: Village Council calling for action to prevent future gun violence.

What to do in an Active Shooter Situation This flyer was distributed as part of Carter Taylor’s

Eagle Scout Project – BSA Troop 73 and sponsored by the Village of Marble Cliff Good practices for coping with an active shooter situation:

Important information to provide to law enforcement or 911 operator:

• CALL 911 WHEN IT IS SAFE TO DO SO!

• Location where the

• Be aware of your environment and any possible dangers (see #1 below for more information)

• Number of shooters, if

• Take note of the two nearest exits in any facility you visit (see #1 below for more information)

• Physical description of

• If you are in an office, stay there and secure the door (see #2 below for more information)

• Number and type of

• If you are in a hallway, get into a room and secure the door (see #2 below for more information) • As a last resort, if the shooter is at close range attempt to take them down (see #3 below)

shooting is occurring more than one shooter/s

weapons held by the shooter/s

• Number of potential

victims at the location

1. Evacuate - If there is an accessible escape path, attempt to evacuate the premises. Be sure to: • Have an escape route and plan in mind

• When exiting the building, follow the officers’ commands and hold your hands above your head

2. Hide out - If evacuation is not possible, find a place to hide where the active shooter is less likely to find you. Your hiding place should: • Be out of the active shooter’s view

• Provide protection if shots are fired in your direction (i.e., an office with a closed and locked door)

3. Take action against the active shooter - As a last resort, and only when your life is in imminent danger, attempt to disrupt and/or incapacitate the active shooter by: • Acting as aggressively as possible against him/her

Information provided by United States

• Throwing items, improvising weapons and yelling

Department of Homeland Security

https://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/active_shooter_booklet.pdf

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News & Information from the City of Grandview Heights

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By Lydia Freudenberg

Paint the Town

5columns plans to launch ArtWalk this spring

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s you may have read in the January/February issue of Tri-Village Magazine, the Grandview-based arts organization 5columns is making an impact in the community. What began with installing five posts in front of Stevenson Elementary, is now evolving into further artistic endeavors in the area, like their Grandview ArtWalk.

In partnership with The City of Grandview and Destination Grandview, ArtWalk is a new 5columns project where residents and companies can have personalized artwork painted on their sidewalk.

The idea began when 5columns founder, Henrietta Cartwright, obtained the posts from Mayor Ray E. DeGraw in 2017 and struck a deal. “(DeGraw) mentioned to me that there was a woman in Grandview who was desperate to get more art into the community. And the way she wanted to do it was to paint on the sidewalks,” says Cartwright. “And so, he was joking with me, but I think he said something along the lines of, ‘If I give you these steel posts, can you make some art happen on the sidewalk?’”

The women with the sidewalk art idea? Stephanie Evans, the executive director for the Tri-Village Chamber Partnership. As for Cartwright, she clearly didn’t take the Mayor’s compromise as a joke.

Ready, Set, Art! This coming spring, the ArtWalk is set to officially launch. A few installments have already been around; Grandview Dental Care on Grandview Avenue has a cartoon salamander skipping rope with 10

The salamander will always be in the artwork, even if it’s hidden.

“I feel like the community is so ripe and ready to have more (public art) because whenever I speak to anyone about it, I get wonderful and enthusiastic responses,” says Cartwright.

Cartwright and her team hope to have more artworks installed by late spring and to release a map that shows where each artwork can be found – thus creating the self-guided ArtWalk.

Since 5columns is a 5013(c), volunteer-based group, Cartwright is always looking for helpers to assist in adding and creating more public art.

“Financial support is always useful but you can get involved in other ways too. We need your ideas for future installations. We also need sponsors and supplies to make our installations happen,” she says. “Public art is a reflection of how we see the world, it’s the artist’s response to our time and place, combined with our own sense of who we are.”

To learn more about ArtWalk and how to get involved visit www.5columns. org/artwalk.

floss while jumping on toothpaste, and the Grandview Bank Block features the cartoon salamander as the face of George Washington on a dollar bill.

The reoccurring salamander isn’t just random.

“We thought it would be really fun to have a theme,” says Cartwright. “We thought the cardinal would be a good idea because it’s the state bird, but then a city council member pointed out a (central Ohio) sports team is the Cardinals. …

Salamanders are the state amphibian.”

Cartwright says the salamander doesn’t have to be the focal point, but will always be in the artwork, even if it’s hidden. She also stresses that the artwork is not limited to Grandview Avenue or commercial properties; any Lydia Freudenberg is the brand loyalty Grandview resident is welcome to have specialist. Feedback welcome at lfreudenberg@citysccenemediagroup.com one commissioned.

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Faces

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Dream Maker Upper Arlington band leader and business owner wants to turn dreams into reality

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rowing up as a student within Columbus City Schools offers ample opportunities within the arts. As fourth grade approached, Upper Arlington resident Rob Maccabee wanted to take full advantage and took up the violin.

Within a year, after a conversation with the band director at West High School, Maccabee switched to play the trumpet. This may have felt insignificant at the time, but the choice would prove to be fortuitous in his future endeavors.

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Starting the New Basics Brass Band The summer before his first semester at Capital, Maccabee and a friend decided to drive to Rhode Island for the Newport Jazz Festival in 1995.

“We packed up the Subaru, drove out there, slept in his car and took a shower at the beach,” Maccabee says. “We saw a tribute to Louis Armstrong the night before with guys like Wynton Marsalis and Jon

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Maccabee has performed all over the country, including South by Southwest.

Faddis and members of The Dirty Dozen Brass Band.”

The Dirty Dozen’s set would inspire Maccabee to form his own group. Shortly after the trip, his own group, New Basics Brass Band, was born.

“I remember thinking, ‘Oh my God, that is so cool.’ I modeled our band off of Dirty Dozen,” Maccabee says. “I just got out of school and wanted to start a band because I wanted to gig.”

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“I went home to my mom and told her, ‘I think I want to play trumpet’,” Maccabee says. “We went down to Uncle Sam’s Pawn Shop downtown and I remember my mom saying, ‘I’ll rent this for you, but you can’t just quit.’”

Maccabee, as his mother suggested, fully embraced the trumpet and never looked back. He was a member of both the All-State Orchestra and jazz band at West.

As college approached, he auditioned for a few different schools and decided to continue his music education at Capital University.

Though Staches closed its doors in 1998, the venue was a stop for a number of large acts including Nirvana, R.E.M. and the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Young and Naïve Three years later in spring 1996, the Dirty Dozen was set to make a stop at what was once a staple of the Columbus music scene, Staches. A place in which Maccabee recalls being an absolute dive in all the best ways.

“With the power of being young and naïve, I called up the club owner and said, ‘I have a brass band, can we open for them?’” Maccabee says. “Not only were we just young and dumb and said let’s jump on the show, we ended up playing one, if not two, of their songs in front of them.

That’s like opening for the Rolling Stones and playing ‘Brown Sugar’.”

New Basics would go on to record their debut album in 1997 and ended up getting a couple members of Dirty Dozen to play on the record.

“They didn’t laugh at us that first night, although they could have,” Maccabee says.

“They were so nice and super supportive.”

Shaking it up New Basics has maintained a steady flow of shows and performances throughout the years. The band has played all over the country, including at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and South by Southwest, an annual film, media and music festival held in Texas, and all around Columbus.

The group even had the opportunity to record with some of funk and jazz’s biggest names including Bootsy Collins of Parliament-Funkadelic, Freekbass and trombonist Fred Wesley.

While New Basics has been the longest running project of Maccabee’s, his musical life has spread wide and far.

He recently started a project SupaFun Band, a novelty act where the group dresses up as clowns. They play a variety of TV

and movie theme songs, cartoon music and favorite Buckeye songs.

The band has played the Ohio State Fair, the South Carolina State Fair, grand openings of businesses like IKEA and even had an opportunity to play in China but ultimately had to pass on the show due to government issues.

“I want to think of it more as I am an entertainer, not just a musician,” Maccabee says. “It’s become one of the most joy-bringing and lucrative things I’ve ever done, even though it is absurd in the idea of it.”

Aside from the trumpet, baritone horn and mellophone, Maccabee is a singersongwriter and a constant presence in the Columbus scene. He is a member of the Columbus Songwriters Association and regularly hosts a night at Rambling House.

“It’s really become my main creative outlet right now in terms of creating and writing songs. It’s something I really enjoy,” Maccabee says. “What it really has allowed me to do is get over myself in other ways and to stretch myself. It’s super vulnerable to sing not only a song you wrote, but express things you wrote about yourself.”

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The SupaFun Band is a project that has the group dress as clowns and play theme songs.

As a child, Maccabee always had a knack for entrepreneurship, often hosting carnivals in his back yard and charging neighborhood kids to get in, and always found the time to sell something. Though New Basics was gigging throughout Columbus and beyond, Maccabee wanted to find a full-time job.

Mark Greenwood, a friend and founding drummer of the band, was working with an on-hold marketing company, a business that recorded a personalized onhold message for companies accompanied by music.

This sparked an interesting business opportunity for Maccabee and Greenwood as the two launched Macwood Audio Group.

“We got a loan from his dad, bought Pro Tools and rented a two-bedroom apartment on north campus. One bedroom was our workstation and the other was where he slept,” Maccabee says. “I think we even had a fax machine, business cards … all that stuff, a real legitimate operation.”

Although behind the scenes the business seemed prime for success, Maccabee quickly realized they were missing one essential ingredient to get the business off the ground.

“I remember the first day, just sitting there … that feeling … and then all of a sudden we realized, oh, we need a cus16

tomer,” Maccabee says, laughing. “I picked up the Yellow Pages and just started calling people. That’s where I began to learn the art of cold calling.”

For the next five years, Maccabee took in all the knowledge he could through running a business. Macwood Audio offered a number of services, but ultimately the experience taught Maccabee valuable lessons focused on how to gain customers.

Finding Stability In 1999, he stepped away from Macwood Audio with the desire of finding something more stable.

“I wanted something more stable, less bachelor-like,” Maccabee says. “I was still playing shows and staying up late, I just needed to get my life together.”

Opportunity came knocking once again for Maccabee after a brief stint with a merchant services company out of Texas that he soon found out was not the most honest business.

He was invited to a meeting at Old Bag of Nails Pub after someone came across his business card and recognized the work Maccabee had been

Maccabee has also performed at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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A Real Cutting Your Teeth Experience

doing. It was there where he met Douglas Mack, founder of Payex.

That conversation began a 17-year relationship with the company in a role that afforded Maccabee a great deal of experience. The business was in a coworking space, allowing Maccabee to become practiced at branding, company creation, naming and so much more.

“He showed me how the business really worked and I was able to get involved with things like sales management and doing other marketing like direct mail campaigns,” Maccabee says. “I was able to continue my education of business development sales and marketing and what was working and not working.”

In 2017, Maccabee planned his next venture and combined the years of experience he gained through leading and marketing his band, his work with Macwood Audio and time spent in the credit card processing business to launch a company of his own.

Naventive, which focuses on brand specialization, was founded and launched

by Maccabee in 2017.

“I develop a process that takes somebody through a series of exercises and ex-

ploratory questions to help them realize who their ideal client is and what their ideal deliverable is,” Maccabee says.

“We’re doing what we do best and that is helping people get absolute clarity.”

Staying Busy Maccabee maintains a rather jampacked schedule in his life. Whether that is spending time with his family, working with Naventive or playing out in the Columbus music scene, there is no shortage of excitement in his life.

Maccabee and his wife, Erin, are also expecting a newborn baby boy at the end of March.

He has been a member of the TriVillage Chamber Partnership for years and it is a role he truly enjoys and allows him to connect with so many likeminded individuals.

“Being on the chamber gives me the opportunity to learn and meet people who come from a variety of walks of life,” Maccabee says. “The most involved people are givers and care and want to contribute to the community and to see it flourish.”

He is now in the process of transitioning his weekly songwriter series, “Troubadour Tuesdays” at the Rambling House into a weekly web series.

“We’ll take a deep-dive into what inspired the song, a little more into the mechanics. Did the song start with a lick or the lyrics? Who was the influence behind it?” Maccabee says. “It’s an opportunity to shine a light on a great local songwriter.”

The series will partner with venues throughout Columbus and continue to introduce the city to a plethora of talented individuals.

Through all his endeavors, Maccabee is able to work with people to help them realize their true potential, and that is something he fully embraces.

“I really like making a difference for people,” Maccabee says. “What I ultimately want to do is help people’s dreams come true.”

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In Focus

By Tessa Flattum

Something in the Sand Grandview Heights educators introduce a virtual reality sandbox

Photos courtesy of Brad Gintert

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tudents at Grandview Heights Schools are taking sand to the next level.

Because of a grant from The Grandview Heights/Marble Cliff Education Foundation, Grandview Heights teachers Brad Gintert and Lana Williamson provided their students with an augmented reality sandbox that allows them to learn kinetically alongside the supplemented material.

The software for the sandbox was developed and customized by a team of scientists at The University of California Davis to teach concepts such as reading topographic maps, contour lines, levees, watersheds, and other geographic and geological concepts.

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according to their client’s standards with has given him a new way to relay diffispecial computer-aided design software cult concepts to his students. and equipment from the IT lab at the “As an educator, this was a great opschool. Now that the sandbox is officially portunity for my engineering students useable, students can enjoy something to use and implement the engineering they helped build for the district—and design cycle,” Gintert says. “It has posithat, Gintert says, was an important facet tively impacted my teaching because I of the project itself. can now provide my students real-world “I’m always looking for unique opportunities.” learning opportunities for our students,” The sandbox allows the students to he says. “This is just a continuation of create real-life models by shaping the our efforts to find problems for our stusand around with their hands, which dents to solve within the school district.” is then translated by an elevation color Although some of the more commap, topographic contour lines and simplex geographical questioning is saved ulated bodies of water. It works through for the high school students, students a special camera, simulation and visualof all ages are encouraged to explore the ization effects, and a complex data prosandbox’s cool features. Because every jector to make the learning literally come student learns differently, teachers within alive right before your eyes. the district are hopeful that it will help “It’s hard to say what the best part more kinetic learners connect concepts of the sandbox is because it’s so cool and students were able to play a role in the construction of to visual aids that the sandbox provides unique to us,” Gintert says. “Being able The the sandbox. in real time. to integrate technology into a teaching tool that the students love is definitely the best part.”

Gintert’s students were also able to play an important role in Tessa Flattum is a contributing writer. Feedback welcome at the construction of the sandbox, with Williamson as their stand- feedback@cityscenemediagroup.com. in “client.” Students were able to design aspects of the sandbox

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Recognizing Excellence

39th annual Golden Apple Awards celebrate educators in Upper Arlington

By Jenny Wise

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many students who want to attend that we end up in a gymnasium or auditorium,” says Noble. “The administrators of the schools do an excellent job of helping us keep secrecy on this. We don’t want the winners to hear about it or have an idea that they’re going to win until we are in front of them.”

Last year, Kyle Evans was recognized at Hastings Middle School. Now in his seventh year at Hastings, Evans works in a classroom with students who have multiple disabilities – the very same classroom in which he used to volunteer when he was once a student at Hastings.

“The students and staff here are really supportive of my class. We’ve got quite a vision of inclusion here, where we want the students in my class to be as much a part of the school as they can be and have a good population of the students outside of my classroom be accepting, and be good friends,” says Evans. “We have a March/April 2019 • www.trivillagemagazine.com

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hat makes a community great?

Friendly neighbors?

Green space? What about local amenities? For a family looking to put down roots, one thing is for sure: there needs to be good schools.

The Upper Arlington Civic Association couldn’t agree more, which is why the organization founded the Golden Apple Awards in 1981.

“They actually star- Evans works in the very same classroom as when he was a student volunteer. ted small; there were only three teachers selected the first year.

“These awards are a forum for stuWe now celebrate 12 recipients, across dents, parents, peers and community all of the pubic and private high schools, members to support those folks who are middle schools, elementary schools, and impacting students and to recognize expre-schools located in Upper Arlington,” cellence,” says Noble. “The schools resays Brian Noble, director of the Golden ally make such a difference in our comApple Awards and UACA member. “We munity and we want to make sure we also opened them up to faculty and staff, are recognizing the folks who are makso everyone at the school is now eligible to ing that difference.” win one of these awards.”

The UACA collects nominations According to Noble, the Golden Ap- via the organization’s website through ple Awards showcase the dedicated indi- an online form. Those who submit a viduals that make a high standard of edu- nomination have the opportunity to cation attainable in Upper Arlington. include a personal note or story exemplifying the nominee’s character and why he or she deserves a Golden Apple If you missed the chance to recAward. Then, after much deliberation, ognize an outstanding educator that the UACA directors select a single winyou know in Upper Arlington this ner from each school. year, visit www.uaca.org in early “This year (the surprise award ceremonies) will be midway through March 2020 to take part in the 40th annual and we actually do a visit to the classroom Golden Apple Awards. or to the school – sometimes there’s so

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program called Best Buddies, and it’s been really great.”

The Best Buddies program offers other students the chance to connect with those in Evans’ classroom; these volunteers give up their free time during lunch and enrichment periods to work in the classroom and build personal relationships.

“We have a lot of peers, through our Best Buddies program, that come into our classroom – a lot of them daily – to see, spend time with and work with students in a variety of settings here in my classroom and even outside of school through different social opportunities,” says Evans.

With so many people participating in the program, it’s no surprise that students and peers nominated Evans. It was, however, a surprise when the UACA directors and his friends and family showed up in the classroom to present him with a Golden Apple Award.

“It totally took me off guard. I felt super appreciated and was fighting back tears big time. It was a really special moment,” says Evans. “It’s funny, I had just told my wife a day or two before, ‘Oh, I saw that someone won in another building. I wonder who is going to win in our building.’”

Evans was just one of 12 deserving recipients, all with heartfelt, moving stories; a list of past winners dating back to 2014 can be found online. Now in its 39th year of the Golden Apple Awards, UACA accepted nominations Jan. 7 through March 1, with a goal to announce winners midMarch.

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Open a Book, Open the World Grandview Heights City Schools find success through the Global Read Aloud program

By Maggie Ash

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Parents are encouraged to supplement with time-tested techniques.

ocean for kids who maybe don’t have compulsory education or don’t have fresh water, those experiences are valuable.”

Teachers often connect with other classrooms using video messaging systems

The program is transformative for students, who learn through experience and stories.

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such as Skype to allow students to read parts of the book or recite their responses to prompts, as well as get to know new friends who are states or countries away.

But it’s not all digital connections.

“The kids now have pen pals,” says Lusher. “The communication piece is so critical.”

One particular champion for Global Read Aloud is Elizabeth Page, a thirdgrade teacher at Robert Louis Stevenson Elementary School. Major benefits of the program, according to Page, are how teachers and students get to collaborate while students receive larger audiences to discuss their classwork with.

“The kids are truly excited, and they are so motivated to read the book and to write their responses” Page says.

This year, Page’s students read A Boy Called Bat with their partner class in Southern California. This middle-grade book follows the story of Bixby Alexander Tam, nicknamed Bat, who is on the autism spectrum.

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or students in Grandview Heights Schools, both tried-and-true teaching methods and innovative technology come together through Global Read Aloud. An international program that occurs once a year, Global Read Aloud hand-selects books for various age groups that inspire students and teachers alike while creating open forums through Facebook and Twitter to connect classrooms across the U.S. and even the world.

For Chief Academic Officer Dr. Jamie Lusher, this program is particularily transformative for students because children and young adults learn through experience and stories. Global Read Aloud offers both.

“The Global Read Aloud program has given students the opportunity to put themselves in the shoes of somebody else and that’s really powerful when the story is being told by someone their own age,” Lusher says. “Our kids only know what they know, and they know Grandview.

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student-driven digital portfolio called Seesaw. Both Page and her California counterpart created class blogs where students could make posts and respond to each other. Prompts such as “What is your favorite room in your house?” or “How did you get your name?” relate to the content of A Boy Called Bat and led students to realize that despite their distance, they were more similar than different.

“Even though we lived in Ohio and they lived in California, and we found each other on the map, the biggest takeaway was how much we have in common,” says Page.

Despite the fantastic outcomes of this creative, technology-based program, Lusher still encourages parents to pursue some old-fashioned techniques to increase literacy and educational success.

“Make no mistake, the child becomes a reader in the lap of their parents. We know that, and we know the No. 1 way for students to increase their ability to be successful in life is to be read to,” says Lusher. “I don’t care if they’re two or 20, read to them and talk about books. There is so much value in having that conversation and putting a book in their hand.”

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Living

By Nathan Collins

A (New) Wine Cellar

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hen Nadia Malik and Michael Pratt purchased their Upper Arlington home a year-anda-half ago, they knew that it would need some work. Originally built in the 1940s, the previous owners had remodeled and expanded upon the home nearly ten years ago. Despite its age, the home had an open design and contemporary feel to it.

“When we were looking at the house before we bought it, the basement had been finished I’m guessing maybe 30 years ago,” Pratt says. “It was finished, but portions of it were not, and it was really old.

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just to have a more attractive space.”

A particular note is the mudroom, which leads off the back of the house.

“We’ve got a nice patio back there and we spend a good amount of time there in the summer,” Pratt says. “That room was there before, but it was more just like a storage locker; there were a couple hooks on the wall and some cubbies, but it didn’t have any shoe storage or benches so we just kind of prettied it up.”

Traditionally, the empty space underneath staircases is utilized as storage space.

That’s not the case in this home. Instead, Malik and Pratt created a wine cellar.

“My wife and I both enjoy wine,”

Pratt says. “When we started talking about what we wanted to do with the space and started talking to The Cleary Company, they recommended that we start looking at pictures on Houzz. They set up a folder in there for us to save pictures and to comment on what we like about the pictures; so they could look at it all and figure out what our tastes were and what we wanted to do.”

In this process, Pratt noticed a picture of a wine cellar under the stairs and thought the concept was unique. The existing space was a basic storage closet that Malik and Pratt didn’t have a need for, so they believed a wine cellar would be an March/April 2019 • www.trivillagemagazine.com

Photos courtesy of Marshall Evan Photography

World War II-era home gets a facelift

White custom cabinets with cubbies and drawers were installed for children’s toys and seldom-used household items. LV plank flooring by Kolay visually looks like porcelain tile but is softer and more flexible, making it a perfect choice for an older unlevel basement floor.

Often space underneath basement stairs goes unused, however the clients requested a wine cellar. Custom racking and glass doors were designed for the specific space. The refrigeration unit was installed in the adjacent crawl space. Access to the crawl space is hidden behind the mirrored barn door.

Custom built-in cabinets flank a new gas fireplace. Façade is clad with Shadowstone Midnight Sky by Realstone Systems from Hamilton Parker. Wainscotting and wood trim on the egress window elevate the space, almost making you forget you’re in a basement.

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“We’ve got some good bottles in there,” Pratt says. “We had a party for Christmas and had a lot of friends over – there’s a bottle of Silver Oak in there and everyone was kind of eyeing that bottle.”

Nathan Collins is a managing editor. Feedback welcome at ncollins@cityscenemediagroup.com.

Seating and storage galore! The mudroom keeps everything in its place and features custom cabinetry with a wide L-shaped bench, multi-sized cubbies and pullouts. This mudroom stores shoes for the family of four.

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On the Table

By Bethany Schultz

That Lucky Time of Year Get ready to dress in green and celebrate St. Patrick’s Day

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t is almost time to eat corned beef sandwiches, drink and party. Get all dressed up in green from head to toe and don’t forget to break out your shamrocks. If you are looking for somewhere to go for St. Patrick’s Day, then make sure to visit Byrne’s Pub. And, on Monday, the pub is hosting its annual St. Patrick’s Day Survivors Party.

“We’ve had the Survivors Party for 20 years. It ends the day after St. Patrick’s Day. It’s sort of dragging (the celebration) out another day,” Owner Pat Byrnes says. “There’s a lot of local Irish and it’s a little extra for the people who had to work and not enjoy it. They get a chance to go wind down.”

Byrne’s Pub will shorten their menu, but don’t worry, there will still be corned beef sandwiches. “It’s more of a big tent party and we really focus on the music and celebrations,” Byrnes says.

There is always lots of music throughout St. Patrick’s Day weekend, so make sure to put on your dancing shoes. To start off the celebration on March 15, there will be a DJ. March 16, Byrne’s Pub is hosting the 9 Castle Close, Mossy Moran and McIans.

Then, on St. Patrick’s Day, Byrne’s Pub will be hosting the Rice Brothers, the Prodigals and the Drowsy Lads. The Shamrock Club Pipes and Drums play throughout the weekend.

Byrnes Pub will not be serving green beer.

“We have a saying,” Byrnes says.

“Beer comes naturally in many different colors. Green is not one of them.”

For those who want to bring a St. Patrick’s Day celebration to their own home, try this traditional corned beef and cabbage recipe.

Bethany Schultz is a contributing writer. Feedback welcome at feedback@cityscenemediagroup.com.

RECIPE

Easy Traditional Corned Beef and Cabbage Posted on the Small Town Woman: Cooking & Entertaining Website by Beth Pierce

Instructions In dutch oven or large stockpot, add corned beef and cover with water. Add spice packet, pickling spice and onion. Cover and simmer for 2-2 1/2 hours. The brisket should be fork tender.

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Add potatoes and carrots. Cover and simmer for 30 minutes. Add cabbage. Cover and simmer for 15 minutes.

Remove corned beef and veggies from the pot, avoid pickling the spice. Remove any fat from the corned beef and slice against the grain.

Notes Do not let the brisket boil. This will make it tough. Slow simmer is the key.

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Ingredients 3 pounds corned beef brisket with spice packet 2 tablespoons pickling spice 1 onion 5 medium red potatoes 4 large carrots 1 head of green cabbage

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Bookmarks Compiled by the Grandview Heights Public Library, 1685 W. First Ave., www.ghpl.org Kids and Teens: Education

We Don’t Eat our Classmates

By Ryan T. Higgins (ages 4-8) The first day of school is always a stressful time with learning new rules and making new friends, but even more so for a tiny, pink-overalled Tyrannosaurus Rex named Penelope. Penelope desperately wants to fit in at school, but all her classmates are children, and children are just so......delicious. Only when she finally gets a taste of her own medicine can Penelope curb her appetite for her new classmates. A hilarious picture book about how, in Penelope’s father’s words, “Sometimes it’s hard to make friends. Especially if you eat them.”

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

By Erika L. Sanchez (grades 9 and up) Julia’s older sister, Olga, was the perfect daughter. She lived at home, didn’t go out, took classes at the local community college, and obeyed their parents in every way.

Rebellious Julia, meanwhile, wants nothing more than to get away from her family and the neighborhood she grew up in. With Olga’s sudden death and her relationship with her parents rapidly deteriorating, Julia finds herself struggling to stay afloat. Immigration, familial relationships, mental illness, and poverty are all explored in this fantastic novel for mature teens.

A Story Like the Wind

By Gill Lewis (grades 4-8) This short, beautifully illustrated novel takes place entirely on a raft floating in the middle of the ocean. The group of strangers on the raft are refugees fleeing some crisis, although you never find out exactly what or from where. While the group shares food, Rami shares the only thing he can-music, through the violin which is now his sole possession. The music becomes a story of its own, uplifting and healing the passengers and giving them hope in the direst of circumstances.

Putting Peace First: 7 Commitments to Change the World

By Eric David Dawson (grades 5-8) Written by the CEO of non-profit organization Peace First, this acts as a how-to guide for kids who want to make a difference in the world not someday, but right now. They can learn to be a peacemaker by following seven simple commitments, which include raising your hand when confronted with an injustice and opening your heart to those you might not understand. A great primer in how kids can change the world by first changing themselves.

Crush

By Svetlana Chmakova (grades 5-8) In the vein of Smile and Sisters by Raina Telgemeier, Crush explores the changing dynamics of middle school friendships and romances. Main character Jorge has always had a solid friend group, but he is starting to realize that there is a difference between who his friends think he is and who he truly is. The third book in the Berrybrook Middle School trilogy, Crush is perfect for middle grade graphic novel fans looking for a fun, relatable, and light read.

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