West Central Indiana
Educational Service Center
Excellence through Collaboration
WCIESC News:
WELCOME
Tim McRoberts as the new Executive Director.
Tim joins West Central ESC
September 16-17, 2024
Respond by September 6, 2024
2 Day Instructional Assistant Paraprofessional Workshop
Implementing Orton-Gillingham Instructional Routines
Jamey Peavler, The Reading Clinic of Central Indiana
Orton-Gillingham (OG) is a structured approach to teaching students how to connect spoken and print language. It follows an explicit, systematic, and multimodal lesson structure for delivering synthetic phonics instruction. An OG lesson's part-to-whole, cumulative review, and back-mapping structure allow students to apply and generalize their knowledge to improve their decoding and encoding skills.
This 10-hour course is designed to support instructional assistants and paraprofessionals in reinforcing classroom OG instruction.
Course Objectives
1. Recognize the stages of progression from phonological to phonemic awareness and how to provide PA practice.
2. Apply evidence-based practices for handwriting instruction.
3. Identify the components of an OG lesson that target word recognition (decoding) and spelling (encoding) practice.
4. Identify the six basic syllable types in English and explain how knowledge of syllable types supports decoding unfamiliar words.
5. Apply knowledge of common syllable division patterns to support decoding of
multisyllabic words.
6. Identify phonetically irregular words and describe evidence-based practice for
supporting students to read and spell irregular words.
7. Practice delivering OG lesson routines.
8. Examine forms of practice (blocked vs. mixed and massed vs. spaced) to reinforce skills.
Location: 1 N Calbert Way, Greencastle, IN
Time 9:00 am -3:00 pm - Lunch is provided
Cost is $250.00 for ESC members, $375.00 non ESC members
K-12 Outreach Professional Development at Rose Hulman
Congratulations to Richard Goodall, Terre Haute, Indiana, who received the highly coveted Golden Buzzer on the May 28th episode of "America's Got Talent" for his incredible performance of "Don’t Stop Believin’" by Journey.
“He is the janitor at my twins school, West Vigo. They were screaming and crying tears of happiness for Mr. Richard last night with their friends, I was right there with them, as was the entire Vigo County community! We are SO excited for him! It couldn’t happen for a more humble and kind man, he is so deserving of this. Can’t wait for America to see what we Hautian peeps have had the pleasure of seeing for two decades.
LETS GO MR RICHARD.”
Still time to register for August OG training see Workshops page
WORKSHOPS
WCIESC organizes and hosts workshops for teachers, administrators, and other school personnel. Most workshops take place at our facility, but we can also work with you to provide training on site.
FOOD BID
1998 marked the beginning of WCIESC providing food bids for our member schools. This option allows our schools the opportunity to purchase products at a volume discount as a cooperative purchasing group. The ESC prepares the bid saving corporations expense and work of the process.
PARTNERSHIPS
Our Partnerships page is designed to introduce the partnerships, provide a brief description of their services, and connect you to the partner’s website for additional information. ESC of I member school districts are afforded special discount pricing for the partner services.
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*Meet the local educational needs of member school corporations by identifying those needs with support from school staff.
*Enhance educational opportunities for students by collaboration of resources to help establish programs, resource materials and serve the educational needs of students.
*Provide for a more efficient use of member schools’ time, materials and financial resources to enhance the quality and quantity of service and educational offerings.
*Allow for every school corporation equity of opportunity between member school corporations.
*Function as a facilitator for the Department of Education for the delivery of programs to schools in West Central Indiana.
The Purpose of a Service Center
Next Executive
Board Meeting
August 21, 2024
