{"id":2212,"date":"2024-11-06T14:31:04","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T19:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/?p=2212"},"modified":"2024-11-06T14:31:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T19:31:04","slug":"siemer-family-foundation-awards-funding-for-bishop-scholars-tutoring-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/siemer-family-foundation-awards-funding-for-bishop-scholars-tutoring-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Siemer Family Foundation Awards Funding for Bishop Scholars Tutoring Program"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Siemer Family Foundation generously awarded a $20,ooo grant to support OWU’s\u00a0Bishop Scholar Tutoring Program<\/a>\u00a0at Columbus Bilingual Academy North (CBAN). The Bishop Scholars Program is an innovative approach to provide both an experiential teaching and learning experience, while also engaging in service learning, away from campus. Bishop Scholars provides intentional, high-dosage tutoring in math and reading to kindergarten through fourth grade students at CBAN who have fallen behind academically. During the 2023-24 academic year, students in the Bishop Scholars program achieved an 86% increase in math scores and realized a 94% increase in reading scores. Suresh Kannan, a\u00a0<\/a>Microbiology<\/a>\u00a0major and\u00a0<\/a>Data Analytics<\/a>\u00a0minor and a tutor in the 2023-24 Bishop Scholar program, said the OWU tutors try to help the children with the academic struggles they are facing. \u201cWe give them encouragement and help them to know they\u00a0can\u00a0<\/em>get it,\u201d he said. \u201cMost of the (CBAN) tutors are bilingual. We understand their struggles. We provide a safe environment for them to make mistakes and learn.\u201d Benefits of the program extend to OWU’s students by developing and enhancing critical leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills. Additionally, participation as a Bishop Scholar Tutor fulfills OWU’s graduation requirement for at least one Connection Experience as one of the many\u00a0service learning opportunities<\/a>\u00a0available to students. For more information on how to become a Bishop Scholars tutor, please contact Sally Leber, Director of Community Service Learning at\u00a0ssleber@owu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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OWU Sponsoring Organization\/Office:<\/strong>\u00a0Foundation Relations Office
\nContact:<\/strong>\u00a0Susan Zimmerman at\u00a0grants@owu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Siemer Family Foundation generously awarded a $20,ooo grant to support OWU’s\u00a0Bishop Scholar Tutoring Program\u00a0at Columbus Bilingual Academy North (CBAN). The Bishop Scholars Program is an innovative approach to provide both an experiential teaching and learning experience, while also engaging in service learning, away from campus. Bishop Scholars provides intentional, high-dosage tutoring in math and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2100,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[472,317,177],"class_list":["post-2212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-life-academics","tag-campus-news","tag-grant","tag-tutoring"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2213,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212\/revisions\/2213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}