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Region 8 ESC Mission Statement:

The Mission of Region 8 ESC is to offer educational programming that can be provided more effectively and efficiently on a cooperative basis rather than on an individual school basis. Region 8 ESC also supports activities provided within the local school districts in order to provide the greatest educational opportunities and savings for all students. Region 8 ESC’s Mission is to both serve and lead in various ways that are beneficial to our member schools through the following:

Cooperative Instructional Services
Cooperative Purchasing Services
Technology Services
Provide educational and professional media and resources through the Region 8 ESC Library
Electronic Career Information Services
Staff Development Programs
Supplemental Educational Services
Communication through minutes, mailings, e-mails, and News Notes
Food Service Point-of-Sale and Management System support
Substitute Teacher Management System
Online Job Application Service
StarLab-The Portable Planetarium Program
IT On-Site Services
A/V Equipment Repair Service
Inter-District Courier Service

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.