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| Name | Betty M Drummond |
| Address | 574 Jardin Place
Columbus, Ohio , United States |
| Email | BDRUMM4573@aol.com |
| Website | None |
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00, 1936
(88 years)
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Modifed | Thomas Walker
Feb 13, 2009 10:23am |
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| Info | Betty Drummond is a highly qualified educator with many years of experience as a teacher and administrator. Her love for children and concern for their getting the best education possible is why she ran for the Columbus Board of Education. Drummond’s experiences bring a new and added dimension to the Columbus Board of Education. Betty Drummond has worked and will continue to work for better schools for all children.
Because of her experiences as a teacher and parent, she understands how children learn, has realistic expectations of teachers, and knows what parents want from their schools. In a policy-making role, these understandings are invaluable.
Her career began in Columbus City Schools as a third grade teacher. After several years of teaching and completion of her master’s degree, she became reading specialist and finally a reading resource teacher. Her desire to help children improve their reading skills prompted her to begin a second career as a writer. In the seventies she was a consultant for a Houghton Mifflin reading program called Ready Steps and for a Charles Merrill workbook series. In 1980 she authored a workbook to complete that same Merrill series. Betty also co-authored an article for the Reading Teacher in 1981 that was reprinted in 1983 in Motivating Children and Young Adults to Read.
In 1979, Betty went to the Department of Education as an elementary consultant in the former Division of Elementary and Secondary Education. Her responsibility was to evaluate elementary schools. With the change of the 1983 Standards, she became a K-12 evaluator and in 1985, Betty became Assistant Director of the Section. In the early 1990s, reform moved the section to the Division of Assessment and Evaluation; however, purpose was constant. Even though evaluations ceased, the focus of the section was in-terpretation of standards and determination of compliance, always seeing that clients were provided or connected with needed services. While in the Department, Betty was responsible for a number of writing assignments. She worked on the writing of A Self-Appraisal Checklist for Reading in Ohio Schools, Procedures for School Evaluation, and Conducting Self-Evaluation. It is also important to report that Betty served two years as state director of Ohio North Central Association, the first time an African-American held the state director title in the nineteen-state region. And for eleven and one-half years, Betty served on the board of the Ohio Association of Elementary School Administrators.
Betty Drummond, in January 1997, left the Department of Education but continued to write about education. For more than two years her column, “School Notebook,” was carried in This Week suburban newspapers. There she answered letters from students, parents, and others in the community who wanted to know about education and school issues. She also finds great fun writing Letters to the Editor of the Columbus Dispatch.
In 2001, Betty was elected to her first political office, the Columbus Board of Education. As a result of her expertise as an educator, she was selected from among her peers to chair the Academic Achievement Committee, serve as liaison to the Curriculum Quality Control Council, and sit on the Board of Trustees of the Ohio School Boards Association. She is often the one asked to accompany the superintendent or her designee on trips to see new school programs that may be of benefit to the children of the Columbus Schools.
Married with six adult children.
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