Craig Hockenberry: Faith Advisory, Aligning Partnerships

  The King of Price Hill Craig Hockenberry Annual Price Hill Parade crowns longtime Principal   Craig Hockenberry was name the King of Price Hill for the annual Thanksgiving Parade through the streets of Price Hill in Cincinnati.   Hockenberry and his wife were crowned as royalty before the start of the parade at Western Hills High School.   The tradition has been in place for many years and is a fun day for the community of Price Hill which is the where Craig Hockenberry and his wife live.     Mr. Hockenberry is the longtime principal of Oyler School located in Lower Price Hill where it has grown from a K-6 school to a PRE-K-12 Community Learning Center (CLC).   Craig Hockenberry led the transformation with the help of amazing partnership forged by the Community Learning Center Institute.   The school has been the center of the community learning center model and has put many services in place for our cities most vulnerable populations.   Craig Hockenberry was at Oyler

  CRAIG HOCKENBERRY NAMED 2013 HEALTH CARE HERO The Business Courier hosted its 2013 Health Care Heroes awards dinner on Tuesday night, where finalists were honored and winners received recognition. This award ranks very high on the list of public service throughout the City and all the finalists had incredible backgrounds.   The winner of the Community Outreach category was OneSight Vision Center at Oyler School. The award was accepted by Oyler Principal  Craig Hockenberry . Craig Hockenberry pathed the way for many services at Oyler School throughout his 15 years as the principal of the inner-city school.   His partnerships with the Cincinnati Health Department, Growing Well, the Community Learning Center Institute, Delta Dental, The Cincinnati Early Learning Center, St. Al, and many other helped forge a path to public-private partnership across Cincinnati Public.   Mr. Hockenberry took the concept to rural Adams County as well as Three Rivers where he was the superintenden

  CRAIG HOCKENBERRY WINS DREAM MAKERS AWARD CINCINNATI YOUTH COLLABORATIVE (CYC)   CYC makes a significant difference in the lives of vulnerable young people in 2nd grade through college by providing a range of services designed to keep kids in school, prepared for college and career, and on the pathway to success. Bringing together over 1,500 volunteers and over 100 corporate partners, CYC strives for dropout prevention by offering mentoring, college readiness and success, and career preparation.   Over the the year we have awarded many outstanding people the annual Dream Maker award.   In 2009, CYC was proud to name Craig Hockenberry for his work in education.   He was the longtime principal of Oyler School and saw it through a totally transformation.   Craig Hockenberry has been in education for almost 27 years and has had an amazing impact across the region at Oyler, Manchester Local, and Three Rivers.   Craig Hockenberry grew up in Northeastern Ohio in the small town o

  CRAIG HOCKENBERRY NAMED William Henry Harrison Boys Scout Award   The William Henry Harrison District of the Dan Beard Council, Boy Scouts of America will hold its 31st annual West Side Sports Breakfast at 7:30 a.m. In May at the Willow Event Center in Colerain Township. The West Side Sports Breakfast is an event that recognizes community leaders that exemplify servant leadership, scouting values and serve as role models to young people. This year’s honorees included Craig Hockenberry , superintendent of the Three Rivers Local Schools Local School District.   The Boy Scouts of America selects its esteemed honorees for their community service past and present, including leadership roles that support youth initiatives throughout local neighborhoods. Proceeds from the event benefit the 2,300 youth in the Boy Scouts program in western Hamilton County. Craig Hockenberry was also the superintendent of Manchester Local in Adams County and was the longtime principal at Oyler Scho

  A-F Report Card (CRAIG HOCKENBERRY) I write this as a concerned career educator. As one who has taught and served as an assistant principal, principal and now superintendent and one who worked in urban, rural, and suburban school settings for the past 25 years, I continue to be stunned. Our use of the wrongheaded A-F report card system to “grade” Ohio Public Schools is baffling.   We are killing true education for the sake of a high stakes testing culture.   The creative and individual gifts teachers bring to their classrooms are being stunted. The vast majority of parents do not understand the complexities figured into the equations of these school report cards and the majority of our taxpaying public does not either.   I have set high standards for academics in each junction of my career. I still get excited about innovation, excellence, and doing the right things for kids and families as we prepare them for college, the military, and their careers. However, we have gon

      CRAIG HOCKENBERRY Saturday, May 14 th CRAIG HOCKENBERRY   Good Evening everyone- (By Craig Hockenberry)   I’m so honored to have an opportunity to say a few words tonight in support of such an incredible organization like Crayons to Computers.   I would to thank Susan Frankel for her leadership and the remarkable people on your team and for the incredible work that comes out of Crayons to Computers.     Also, I would like to take a moment to thank a few organizations that are important to Crayons to Computers: CRAIG D. HOCKENBERRY   RiverPoint Financial Management (Presenting sponsor this evening) Messer Construction -A longtime partner of Crayons to Computers TriVersity Construction Mitsubishi Electric Krogers LPK Pro Bono   And these are just to name a few.   CRAIG D. HOCKENBERRY             This organization gets it right on so many levels.   They have clearly agreed upon a common North Star and they are following i

  CRAIG HOCKENBERRY: Parental Involvement Christ Church Cathedral By CRAIG HOCKENBERRY For several decades Oyler School and Christ Church Cathedral has had a remarkable partnership that focused on involving parents with their child’s education.   The partnership started many years before I became the principal of Oyler , but I certainly kept the long standing partnership together and carried out their mission through a large grant we received every year.   We had many great friends from Christ Church Cathedral that served as mentors to our kids, donors, and contributed to our social needs through all types of donations.     We also had very important people such as Al Hampton , Cathy Crain, Pat Doyle, and Bob Lashell who did amazing things to support Oyler.   Mr. Lashell served on the outreach committee and he made sure our application for $20,000.00 always made it to the top of the list.   Pat Doyle served for many years on our LSDMC as a member representing school partn

  CRAIG HOCKENBERRY: Mental Health Services in Schools By Craig D. Hockenberry   The early days of my career as a school leader in Cincinnati Public were filled with some extreme behaviors of students that pretty much took over my entire day and in many cases my evenings.   When I was principal at Oyler School in Lower Price Hill from the time we turned the lights on until the time we turned them off, most of the time we were handling behaviors that were totally out of our control.   We had situations that called for hours of physical restrain, attempted suicides, bizarre sexual behaviors, schizophrenia, and many others.   As you can imagine we spent countless hours away from instruction trying to solve these behaviors and protecting other kids.   The amount of loss instructional times was overwhelming and it played a critical role in our early days of poor student performance, however after many sleepless nights we came up with a way to treat these mental health issues and

  Craig Hockenberry: The Robert and Adele Schiff Early Learning Center   I remember taking Mr. Schiff on a tour of Oyler School in December of 2010.   We started with all the different services throughout the building that included; Mental Health, medical, college access, tutoring, parent center, vision center, social services, and I showed him the future plans for dental services.   I then took him through the high school, middle school, and elementary.   He was very engaging and interested in the concept of the Community Learning Center and with our partnership with Darlene Kamine.   Mr. Schiff had many questions about student achievement, social work, and other systems we have put in place to remove barriers for kids growing up in poverty. He asked all the right questions and I could tell right away that he wanted to be a part of the success at Oyler.   We continued our tour of the school and talked in great detail about breaking the cycle of poverty. As we moved through the

  CRAIG HOCKENBERRY : SMILE, we are getting a Dental Clinic. CRAIG HOCKENBERRY : SMILE, we are getting a Dental Clinic.     By Craig Hockenberry As I entered my last year as the Principal of Oyler School our great team had much to be proud of we had created the nation’s most exciting community learning center that included mental health, tutoring, daycare, medical services, food services, after school programing, college access, and much more.   Unfortunately, I was not satisfied.   There was a major missing component inside of Oyler .   We had about 800 student’s grades PRE-K-12 and more than 80% of them had NEVER been to the dentist.   When the kids smile you could clearly tell that tooth decay, cavity and gum disease were apart of who they were.   It was sad situation and had a huge negative impact on student achievement.     In early August of 2012 I walked by the staff lounge and placed a sheet of paper on the outside of the door that said Oyler Dental Clinic coming s