Educators holding a baccalaureate degree and who have held a valid state teaching license for three years are eligible to apply for the certification process. Achieving high standards is important for both students and teachers. Ohio provides a comprehensive support system with a number of incentives and rewards to Ohio teachers who seek and achieve National Board Certification. We are also able to bring this conference to you from a special place, the location of the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library and Memorial. True to our mission as a social studies organization, we will integrate these resources into our program.
Sprawl is one of the biggest environmental problems facing most communities in America.
It slowly destroys our neighborhoods and natural landscapes, creates pollution, strains resources and erodes the quality of our lives. Sprawl is an everyday problem throughout the United States. Two billion hours are wasted in sprawl related gridlocked traffic every year. Entries should be 1,500 words or less and should be received at ZPG's national office by February 15, 2000. Judging the entries will be an array of figures from the fields of education, population, and the arts.