We're excited to share that the Project GLAD® Regional Training Center is reopening this month! Orange County Department of Education and ESD 105 have entered a partnership that will allow us to serve as the regional training center for Washington, Oregon and beyond! As part of this partnership, OCDE Project GLAD® consultants will be housed here at our agency to provide learning opportunities. 

You're invited to join us on November 17th to learn about the NEW and UPDATED training opportunities that we will be offering for teachers of multilingual learners! This event will be held from 3:00-5:00 p.m. at ESD 105 in the Ahtanum Room. Registration is NOT required!

Updated Course Offerings:

• OCDE Project GLAD ® Foundations Training
• OCDE Preschool GLAD® Foundations Training
• Training of Trainers for Project GLAD®
• Training of Trainers Preschool GLAD®

New Course Offerings:

• GLAD® Next Generation
• Planning with WIDA Standards with GLAD® strategies
• GLAD(R) strategies in the Key Language uses
• monthly Mll teacher PLC
• GLAD® trainer and teacher Network

If you have questions, please contact Project GLAD® Regional Training Center program manager, Christine Champie at christine.champie@esd105.org. 

The OSPI Dyslexia Advisory Team will be completing a listening tour and visiting schools  throughout Washington. The purpose of the school visits is to provide the team with a  clearer view of what educators and students are experiencing in relation to the implementation of ESSB 6162.

They are currently gathering information on classrooms, schools, or districts that would be interested in sharing their experience in implementing MTSS for Literacy  (Dyslexia Guidance: Implementing MTSS for Literacy). If interested, please complete the survey and someone from OSPI will contact you to set up a time for further communication at a time that works best for you. 

If you have additional questions, please contact our team at Dyslexia@k12.wa.us

Share in the cost of advertising with other districts. Theater ads are shown on all screens in the Yakima Valley before every movie!  

Last year we began working with Mercy Enterprises to produce ads that support local school district needs. As an ESD, we purchase a year long subscription which allows us the ability to create 2, 11 second ads each week. These ads are shown on all 20 screens at The Majestic and Yakima Cinema and 3 screens at the Orion Cinema.

We have only 3 programming slots remaining for districts to take part in this programming for 2023. With the purchase of each space, participating districts will receive 8 weeks (broken into 4 chunks throughout the year) of advertisements specific to their district during the yearlong contract.  Each slot will cost districts $1,950. Districts can purchase more than one slot if desired. 

Districts can elect to create their own ads or contract with our PR & Marketing department for this service. We estimate that it will take us anywhere from 2-3 hours to complete each ad. Districts can pay for this service in two ways, using our hourly rate of $120 or by contracting with us through our PR & Marketing Tiers of Service. Our brand level tier provides up to 5 hours of PR & Marketing support each month. Learn more about our PR & Marketing Tiers of Service online. 

Weeks will be assigned by random drawing once all spaces have been claimed. 

The U.S. Department of Energy recently announced the availability of more than $80M, the first release of funding in a $500M investment, to make clean energy improvements in K-12 public schools! The funding is intended to provide schools with critical energy infrastructure upgrades.

Through the grant program, DOE will fund energy and health improvements in public K-12 schools across the country. Allowable expenses include energy efficiency (envelope, HVAC, lighting, controls, etc.), ventilation, renewable energy, alternative vehicles, and alternative fuel vehicle infrastructure improvements. Applications are expected to be posted by the end of 2022. 

GLEAN EDUCATION & OSPI PARTNERING FOR FREE WEBINAR! 

Join the Glean Education and Washington State OSPI for a FREE expert webinar series featuring nationally recognized researchers on topics related to Structured Literacy within an MTSS Framework. Learn more about why some students struggle to learn to read, how to recognize risk factors in your students, and how to support reading difficulties and dyslexia in the classroom.

This webinar series is funded by the Washington State Department of Education OSPI Structured Literacy within an MTSS Framework Initiative. This webinar series is a part of the state-wide initiative to increase knowledge among educational partners about Structured Literacy instruction within an MTSS framework. The training initiative includes on-demand coursework, a train-the-trainer event for OPSI’s State Literacy Team, and the expert webinar series (below). For more information, please visit OSPI’s Multi-Tiered Systems of Support Webpage.

Questioning why you're receiving this communication or have ideas for news articles, please contact the ESD 105 public relations & marketing department at brittany.kaple@esd105.org or by phone at (509) 314-5586. 

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