WE'RE HIRING!
Are you organized, flexible, detail-oriented, energetic and compassionate? Do you love working with Newark’s youth and are you excited by the prospect of helping them pursue and complete their education after high school? If so, you might be who we are looking for to join our team as a part-time Associate Director of Programming with a focus on advising juniors and seniors! Overarching responsibilities of this position include: implementation, management and evaluation of projects and programs; spokesperson for A Call to College; developing student relationships and providing informed advising; and leading and collaborating with multiple teams. Some specific program responsibilities include: Advising; New Model Development, Training, Communication and Oversight; Workforce Development Liasion, Summer Melt, Campus Visits, and Financial Aid and FAFSA advising.

Please see the link below for a general job description. Also linked is our A Call to College employment application. Please email your completed employment application along with your resume and cover letter to Tara Houdeshell, Executive Director at [email protected]. All other questions and inquiries should also be forwarded to Tara. Thank you for your interest!
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“To assure every Newark City Schools student the opportunity to pursue and complete education after high school.”

Second Grade

The PEAK Program sponsors early college awareness activities that reach almost 450 second graders in twenty-four different classrooms in all seven Newark City School elementary buildings. Outreach at this grade level focuses on three priorities: introducing the notion of college, promoting the importance of reading to school success and beginning conversations about different types of occupations.  The five main activities during the year are:


  • I Know I Can Go To College Reading Week.  Local college students participate in a lesson plan covering what it is like being in college and why it is so important to have high educational aspirations.  During the visit, the children's motivational reader, I Know I Can, is read aloud and the college student volunteers give a copy of the book to each child at the session's end. 
  • Reading Rocks at the Library. Each building’s second grade classrooms visit the Licking County Library where a community volunteer reads the book, The Little Engine That Could. In addition, the children tour the library and learn the proper way to care for library books. Lastly, in partnership with the Licking County Library, each 2nd grader receives a library card.

Check It Out

The book I Know I Can features four animals who aspire to go to college. This fall, 40 members of the Denison Football team volunteered to serve as college role models by participating in the "I Know I Can Go To College" Reading Week.
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