Region 8 ESC Summer Office Hours
7:30 am - 3:30 pm M-F
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Region 8 Education Service Center
Vision
To be a leading and innovative organization that provides exceptional services to our member schools.
Mission
To provide the relevant products and services to empower our member schools to meet the ever‐changing demands of PreK‐12 education in the State of Indiana.
PBL Coaches
Region 8 ESC has on staff two PBL Coaches that work directly on-site with Staff members of member School Districts. More Info here
State Wide Bus Bid
For the past four years, the ESCs of Indiana have had a statewide bus bid with eight different bids completed and now working in the ninth which started October 1, 2011. During this period of time, 214 different districts have purchased 1,584 buses for a total investment of $137,607,903.00. More info Here.
Transition To Common Core
In August 2010 Indiana adopted the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for Math, Language Arts, and Literacy Standards for Social Studies and History, Science, and Technical Subjects. Read more Here
Project Based Learning
Over 200 area teachers from fifteen public and private schools in grades 6-12 along with six Manchester College faculty members and staff from Science Central participated in PBL101 training at nine locations in Northeast Indiana July through November 2011. Read more Here
Cooperative Purchasing
In 2010-11, Region 8 ESC joined a partnership with One Indiana and CIESC giving member schools the purchasing advantage on statewide-negotiated contracts, organized into convenient online catalogs, all on one easy-to-use website. More info
Here
RISE
Region 8 ESC, in conjunction with the other eight ESCs and the IDOE, began a series of trainings for those individuals who will be doing the evaluations of teachers using the Indiana RISE Evaluation and Development System. Teams from each of the ESCs are being trained in Indianapolis by IDOE staff between November 2011 and June 2012. More Info here
Region 8 ESC to Offer Learning Connection Training
Because much of the information formerly housed on the IDOE website is moving to the Learning Connection site, seven Region 8 ESC staff members, who have received training by the IDOE, are available to provide Learning Connection training to its member schools at no cost. The Region 8 ESC staff will work with schools to determine the best training options for them to meet their needs, whether this is onsite at the school or at the Region 8 ESC office in Decatur. Click here for more complete information on this offering.
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