PLEASE NOTE: ESC of Central Ohio offices are closed through at least July 26th. However, staff are prepared to serve you via email, phone, and/or videoconference. 
 
ESC of Central Ohio Central Office background check services reopened on Thursday, June 25, 2020. Background check and fingerprinting services are currently limited for educational personnel only, regardless of employer. This service is available by appointment only. Learn More

Remote Learning Alliance

 
 
Supporting Ohio Educators and Schools in the Transition to Remote Learning
 
The Remote Learning Alliance is a group of educational organizations committed to the collective impact of helping make the transition to remote learning as easy and robust as possible for Ohio school leaders, teachers, and support personnel. 
 
To achieve its mission, the alliance leverages all available resources, including:
  • New and exisiting technology;
  • Local and national expertise; and
  • Current and future public funds and grants.

Partners & Services

Dayton Regional STEM Center

The Dayton Regional STEM Center offers high quality online STEM units as well as STEM and Project-Based Learning (PBL) professional development.
 
To request service and learn more, contact [email protected].  
 
 

Google Classroom

The ESC of Central Ohio offers training on G Suite for Education apps.
 
To request service and learn more, contact [email protected].   
 
 

Graduation Alliance

Graduation Alliance offers a complete online curriculum, device connection, instruction, and wraparound support options for grades 9 to 12. There are four tiers of instructional options offered from one course to full service. 
 
To request service and learn more, contact [email protected].    
 
 

Greene County ESC

The Greene County ESC offers  resources and personnel to help guide schools and/or districts in their remote learning experience or any other area of need.
 
 

Hilliard City Schools

Hilliard City Schools offers course content developed for use with credit denoted. 
 
To request service and learn more, contact [email protected].
 
 

Hoonuit

Hoonuit offers online learning modules and badges that are ISTE standard aligned and searchable, a dashboard to track modules taken and completed, and it's free for parents if student licenses are purchased. 
 
To request service and learn more, contact [email protected]. 
 
 

iLearn

iLearn offers kindergarten to grade 8 online math curriculum that can be fully prescriptive or teacher guided. This includes diagnostics, screening, and progress monitoring tools.
 
To request service and learn more, contact [email protected]. 
 
 

INFOhio

INFOhio offers resources and tools to support remote learning, curriculum materials aligned to state standards including a collection of digital resources, a coaching program for school librarians and media specialists to assist with integrating digital resources into instruction, supports for parents of early learners, and a flexible professional development portal that includes self-paced online learning for educators and assistance on building a digital curriculum.
 
To request service and learn more, contact [email protected]. 
 
 

Miami County Educational Service Center

The Miami County Educational Service Center offers vendor relationship(s) that could provide value to schools for remote learning, knowledagble and skilled personnel, and local school and district partnerships willing to share their expertise or experience as exemplars of remote learning.
 
 

Modern Teacher

Modern Teacher offers a digital convergence framework that empowers districts to architect and deliver new instructional pathways, at scale.
 
To request service and learn more, contact [email protected]. 
 

Muskingum Valley ESC

The Muskingum Valley Educational Service Center offers resources and personnel to help guide schools and/or districts in their remote learning experience or any other area of need.
 
 

Newsela

Newsela offers an instructional content platform providing over 15,000 texts across all subject areas, customized at five different reading levels. With over 100 content partners (The Associated Press, National Geographic, History.com, etc.), Newsela provides a fully comprehensive, differentiated content library for all subject areas from grades 2 to 12. This also includes lesson plans, the ability to track progress, complements to current curricula, and unit guides, all with an emphasis on relevancy and engagement.
 
To request service and learn more, contact [email protected]. 
 
 

North Point Educational Service Center

Among other services, the North Point Educational Service Center offers its Contiuum of Learning Collaborative, a process for designing teaching and learning based on a needs assessment to assist districts and schools in reexamining how teaching may be delivered regardless of the educational setting.
 
To request service and learn more, contact [email protected].  
 
 

Ohio STEM Learning Network

To request service and learn more, contact [email protected].  
 
 

ParentSquare

ParentSquare offers an all-in-one, two-way communication platform to streamline all school communications, emergency alerts, surveys, social media posts, and more, allowing parents to choose how they want to receive messages (phone, text, app, email).
 
To request service and learn more, contact [email protected]. 
 
 

The PAST Foundation

The PAST Foundation offers their STEMStreaming resources including webinars for educators, podcasts for everyone, and STEM activities for school and home. They also work collaboratively with educators, businesses and industry to co-create innovative strategies designed to provide students relevant and timely online learning opportunities.
 
To request service and learn more, contact [email protected]. 
 
 
 
 

Quality Matters

Quality Matters offers a variety of online and face-to-face workshops on the Quality Matters' K-12 Rubric for high-quality online courses as well as online course design and instruction.
 
To request service and learn more, contact [email protected]. 
 
 

SOITA

The Southwestern Ohio Instructional Technology Association (SOITA) offers online customized professional learning developed by Ohio EdTechs along with coaching for technology and Modern Teacher.
 
To request service and learn more, contact [email protected]. 
 
 

StartSOLE

StartSOLE offers a tool to support the facilitation of student-centered inquiry in synchronous virtual, asynchronous virtual, and face-to-face learning environments, professional development and support for strategic implementation, and web-based tools to support standardization and scaling of best practices.
 
To request service and learn more, contact [email protected]. 
 
 
 

ThinkTV

ThinkTV offers an adapted broadcast schedule to reach students who are not connected along with weekly emails providing links to national and local PBS learning materials. In addition, curriculum such as STEM World and the A to Z Career Lab are offered.
 
To request service and learn more, contact [email protected]. 
 
 

University of Cincinnati School of Education

The University of Cincinnati School of Education offers resources related to online and blended learning, assistance with pedagogy as it relates to technology integration and online learning design, and insights into best practices as well as partnerships with local higher education schools of education.  
 
 

Western Ohio Service Collaborative (WOSC)

The Western Ohio Service Collaborative (WOSC) offers a wide range of professional development provided by experts from multiple counties in Ohio.
 
To request service and learn more, contact [email protected]. 
 
 

WOSU Classroom

WOSU Classroom offers instructional coaching as well as marketing and digital production services. 
 
To request service and learn more, contact [email protected]. 
 
 

Upcoming Events

Beginning July 24, 2020

Remote Leading for Remote Learning

    
In partnership with Actionable Leaders and BASA, the Remote Leading for Remote Learning educator-led videoconferences are now being supported by the Remote Learning Alliance. 
 
 

Contact Us

For more information, please contact [email protected].

In the News

Northmont Summer Learning | Dayton Daily News (May 31, 2020) 
 
 

Founding Partners

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

What Are the Goals?

Support school leaders, teachers, and support personnel as they operationalize their continuity of education plans.
 
 
Serve as hub for school districts to scale learning opportunities, resource sharing, and support.
 
 
Engage all regions of Ohio who wish to participate in the Remote Learning Alliance.
 
 
Partner with the best remote learning experts in the nation who can help us support our schools. 

What Is Collective Impact?

Collective impact is a group of organizations and/or individuals from different sectors committed to a common agenda for solving a specific social problem. Collective impact intiatives involve a centralized infrastructure, a dedicated staff, and a structured process that leads to a common agenda, shared measurement, continuous communication, and mutually reinforcing actvities among all participants. 
 
Source: Collective Impact. Stanford Social Innovation Review (Winter 2011). Retrieved May 4, 2020.