Press Releases

More than 380 friends and supporters of Springer School and Center gathered at Music Hall on May 2 for A Springer Celebration! 2019, Springer-opoly.

Guests will be able to pass GO and collect an evening of fun at A Springer Celebration! 2019:  Springer-opoly, to be held on May 2 at Cincinnati’s Music Hall ballroom.

Reading can give students a peek into the lives of people who live differently from themselves. This winter at Springer School and Center, reading stories prompted students to find ways they could give to others.

Students at Springer School and Center were wowed by Jim McCutcheon’s demonstrations of the link between music and science during his stay as the Norita Aplin Musician in Residence in December. reading stories prompted students to find ways they could give to others.

Students at Springer School and Center enjoyed a multisensory peek into the life of a writer and poet when George Ella Lyon visited the school for students with learning disabilities in November.

The Journal of Learning Disabilities has chosen the artwork of Springer School and Center seventh-grader Abby Beutel to be featured on the journal’s cover in 2019. Each year, the scientific journal selects three works of art from those submitted by students with learning disabilities from across the country.

Springer School and Center eighth-grader Nancy Sutkamp saw a need at her school and leveraged available resources to fill it.

Friends and supporters of Springer School and Center gathered in Hangar 2 at Lunken Airport for A Springer Celebration! 2018 Take Flight on May 3. More than 350 guests enjoyed appetizers and dinner from a variety of food trucks, live and silent auctions and a wine pull.

Five scientists from Procter & Gamble shared their enthusiasm for science with students at Springer School and Center during a May 14 visit in which they held panel discussions and demonstrated scientific principles.

Working under the guidance of Chicago muralist Molly Zakrajsek, “Molly Z,” Middle School students at Springer School and Center transformed a transverse climbing wall in their gymnasium into a kaleidoscope of color, shape and pattern. Zakrasjek visited the school in March as the Maureen Wenker Artist in Residence for 2018.

Cincinnati Children’s and Springer School and Center are partnering to bring two educational experts to Cincinnati on March 19. In an evening program called “Parenting Bright Kids Who Can’t Keep Up,” Ellen B. Braaten, Ph.D., will speak to parents about how to help students with slow processing speed find success in school.

Bringing a truckload of steel pans with him, Dr. Chris Tanner returned to Springer School and Center in December as the 2017 Norita Aplin Musician in Residence.