Loveland Herald 10/16/19

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LOVELAND HERALD

Your Community Press newspaper serving Loveland, Miami Township and other Northeast Cincinnati neighborhoods

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2019 ❚ BECAUSE COMMUNITY MATTERS ❚ PART OF THE USA TODAY NETWORK

Multiple developments are underway in Kenwood Jeanne Houck Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Leila Kubesch has taught for four years at Norwood Middle School. PHOTO PROVIDED

2020 Ohio Teacher of the Year works shares teaching wins Max Londberg Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Leila Kubesch didn’t so much give a voice to her students as teach them they already had one. The seventh- and eighth-grade teacher at Norwood Middle School had tasked her students with putting their dreams down on paper, but a student confi ded in her that “people like us don’t dream.” Then another student told her something similar. Kubesch, in her 20th year as a teacher and her fourth at Norwood Middle, has been named the 2020 Ohio Teacher of the Year by the state Department of Education. She credits her response to those two students, and the work that followed by her classes, with bringing about the recognition. She teaches English as a second language, and most of her students’ native language is Spanish. After her students told her they couldn’t dream, in the 2017-18 school year, Kubesch secured a grant for a performing arts project. They created a display, laminating their dreams and hanging them on burlap sacks, with cutouts of hands forming a border. The display stretched more than 100 feet, and a special exhibit featuring the project opened at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Downtown Cincinnati. A poster by the exhibit explained how burlap was used in North Africa – as clothing, rugs and sacks. The cutout hands “represent action.” Students drew Martin Luther King Jr., and some translated his “I Have a Dream” speech into Spanish. “Dreaming is not just for the rich, the willing, and the supported,” Kubesch wrote for the exhibit. But even an exhibit at the Freedom Center didn’t draw the attention for her students that Kubesch had hoped for. She alerted media outlets to the project. Some didn’t respond. Some did but then never showed. She logged the calls she made: 164. She didn’t tell her students how hard she was having to work to

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Have you driven near the Kenwood Towne Centre and wondered what’s going on with the orange cones, yellow tape and construction cranes near the northeast corner of Kenwood and East Galbraith roads? The Myers Y. Cooper Co. of Sycamore Township is developing an extension of the Sycamore Executive Center on the corner with two, singlestory offi ce buildings of 15,000 square feet each. Medical and other kinds of professional offi ces are planned for the new buildings on the 3-acre site in Sycamore Township and set to be available for lease in the fall. The fi rst phase of the Sycamore Executive Center opened in 2006 with more than 38,000 square feet of offi ce space. Across Kenwood Road and heading south, motorists will see fencing around multi-family homes that will be razed for The Gallery at Kenwood, a $100 million project to include a hotel, offi ce tower and luxury apartments. The Capital Investment Group of downtown Cincinnati is developing the project on seven acres of land along Kenwood Road, across from the Kenwood Towne Centre. The homes to be razed lie between The Jewish Hospital – Mercy Health to the north and the Kenwood Place shopping center with the Kenwood Theatre to the south. Capital Investment Group expects See KENWOOD, Page 2A

A developer is building an extension of the Sycamore Executive Center in Kenwood with two, single-story office buildings. JEANNE HOUCK/THE ENQUIRER

Norwood Middle School students stand next to a project about dreams that was displayed at the Freedom Center in 2018. Their teacher, Leila Kubesch, has been named the 2020 Ohio Teacher of the Year. LEILA KUBESCH

bring them positive recognition. Still, her students could sense something amiss. So Kubesch again started brainstorming. If the media ignored them, they’d create their own means of production. And with funding from grants, her students launched their own talk show. Each student was tasked with conducting 10 inSee TEACHER , Page 2A

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