Interested in how you can advocate for education, energize your branch, and make money? Would you like to raise the Ohio graduation rate and access to advanced trainining?

One branch project is doing all this, and now you can help pass it on and saturate Ohio. AAUW Ohio’s Making History Project is the ultimate in advocacy and public policy.

Success of the Making History Project

This project is helping kids pass the Ohio Graduation Test, the five-part test every student must pass to graduate from high school.

Last year, every participating branch increased its membership, and every participating school district raised its social studies test scores. Since 2007 when The New Little Book was published, school districts that bought books for their students increased their passage rates an average of 17 percentage points – some by as much as 26 percentage points.

How your branch can participate

The study guide is ready for you to use. It was written by AAUW branch members and Cleveland area teachers. It only needs wider distribution. You contact your community’s parents and schools – teachers, curriculum director,or social studies coordinator – to make them aware of the study guide and its success in the 14 districts that have used it.

If your district is doing well, you can help by visiting a neighboring district where students need help or offer the NLB as a great aid to use to tutor kids who have failed. Take the book to the school and let the curriculum director or teacher review it.

Get a copy

Do you need a copy of The New Little Book? Each branch received a copy of the book and a packet about how to participate in the project. Branch members who have read the book said, “It reads like a novel, this is fun.” An intervention teacher said, “The NLB is well-written. I use it to teach both social studies and writing.” If you cannot locate your branch copy, contact one of the coordinators.

Adopt it for your branch

Latch on to this successful project for your own branch. E-mail a project coordinator at info@newlittlebook.org or leave a voicemail message at 216-556-4968.

Visit our Web site for downloadable book samples, a brochure, evaluations, talking points and more. Coordinators can also help you find a school system in your area that needs this book.

Ohio’s Making History Project is the statewide effort sponsored by AAUW Ohio, building on The New Little Book project of the Heights-Hillcrest-Lyndhurst Branch. We also can provide sample press releases for you to use to gain visibility and new members for your branch.

Share this with your branch

We encourage you to include the information above in your branch newsletter by copying and pasting it. Visit The New Little Book Web site for downloadable photos and more information.