Partner Spotlight: OESCA

The AI Education Project is proud to spotlight one of our most important education partners to-date: the Ohio Educational Service Center Association (OESCA).

OESCA is a state-wide organization which represents the superintendents, teachers, supervisors and other personnel of the state’s Educational Service Centers (ESCs). ESCs are large-scale service providers offering administrative, academic, and other support services to Ohio’s school districts, chartered nonpublic schools, community schools, and STEM schools. All that is to say that OESCA and ESCs are central players in Ohio’s educational ecosystem.

Our partnership with OESCA is a perfect way to showcase how the AI Education Project plans to utilize a grassroots and grasstops engagement strategy in our quest to identify and empower champion educators to harness our curriculum.

Ohio’s ESCs employ more than 13,000 individuals, with 90% of those working directly in the buildings and schools they support, down to the individual classroom, which means their network reaches well over 90,000 teachers and 1.5 million high school students across the state.

“I grew up in Ohio, and have watched our state grapple with the impacts of industrial automation,” said Craig Burford, Executive Director of OESCA. “As emerging technologies like artificial intelligence continue to permeate throughout our economy, I understand the importance of equipping students with the information they need to navigate this new world. Ohio’s ESC’s take this responsibility extremely seriously, and this will undoubtedly drive a huge demand for AIEDU’s curriculum from our members.”

OESCA has been supporting the AI Education Project in several ways, including providing input into our curriculum, connecting us with key ESC leadership, and collaborating on AI literacy seminars and training programs for Ohio’s educators. We are very fortunate to have their support.