Craig Hockenberry: Faith Advisory, Aligning Partnerships

  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 th...

  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 o...

  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...

  Craig Hockenberry Cincinnati News links, social media, and websites   School District Closes For Two Days After 600 Students Call In Sick – CBS Detroit (cbslocal.com)   Graduation during coronavirus? High schools can hold ceremonies with strict guidelines | WKRC (local12.com)   Coronavirus has local school districts bracing for possibility of extended closings (wlwt.com)   Illness closes Three Rivers Schools | WKRC (local12.com)   Tri-State students finishing school year with remote learning | WKRC (local12.com)   Percentage in poverty not easily identified in Ohio schools | WKRC (local12.com)   Foster care services prepare for uptick in child abuse cases due to no in-class instruction (wlwt.com)   Three Rivers chooses Hockenberry as new superintendent (cincinnati.com)   Oyler principal on the budget bubble? - Marketplace   Three Rivers schools change start times, but some worry about effe...

  CRAIG HOCKENBERRY SUPERINTENDENT   14 reasons SBHC work CRAIG HOCKENBERRY SUPERINTENDENT   14 reasons SBHC work   By Craig Hockenberry Superintendent   I.                  SBHC are Poverty Interrupters In my opinion poor health is one of the top causes for poor academic performance in our high poverty schools and is directly related to health care issues;   Any opportunity to interrupt, slow down, or improve health issues that impact kids at school is a good thing   SBHC gave me an opportunity to interrupt poverty.   II.               SBHC are Convenient People in poverty cannot get places fast enough (bus routes, no cars or broken down cars, and clinics are too far away);   Location in schools is prompt and convenient; Pull the students in need of services o...