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Membership in OESCA and participation in association events provides Business Members with access to our members and the more than 25,000 employees they represent statewide. OESCA offers numerous opportunities for Business Members to meet our ESC members face-to-face. Our major meetings attract key education leaders throughout the state--the decision-makers you want to reach.
Promotional opportunities, conference sponsorships and tradeshow exhibition opportunities can introduce companies to new prospects as well as strengthen existing relationships. These opportunities also allow our members knowledge of and access to innovative and/or time-tested solutions to the challenges that face educational service providers on an ongoing basis.
Interested in becoming an OESCA Business Member? Download the Overview and Application, which contains additional detail about the program and instructions on how to become a Business Member.
2023 OESCA BUSINESS MEMBERS
Better Lesson
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Zearn
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Find Your Grind
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Boardworks
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SORSA
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Rachel Wixey & Associates
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ClassLink
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Enervise
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Typing.com
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Reading Horizons
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Rocket PD
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Ohana Solutions
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The Purple Star Award recognizes schools that display a major and purposeful commitment to PreK-12 students & families connected to our nation’s military. There are more than 525 Purple Star Schools in Ohio – a nationwide network now exists to exchange best practices and new ideas with local educators. Any Ohio public, private, religious, independent, charter (elementary, middle, junior high, high) school with PreK-12 students enrolled, can apply. This includes preschools and career-technical centers. In March of 2022, Ohio has also implemented the Collegiate Purple Star. Applications for the upcoming Class of Purple Star Schools will be accepted from November 1 to December 15, 2023. Awardees are announced each April, the Month of the Military Child. The Purple Star website will post the application November 1.
ESCs are being asked to promote this information to their client districts. |
The Ohio Department of Education and Attendance Works are offering a NEW 6-part series on core attendance strategies and addressing the rising rates of chronic absence. These sessions are designed for educational service centers (ESCs) and state support teams (SSTs) and focus on building on and expanding the work they are doing with school districts to decrease chronic absenteeism and increase student engagement using evidenced-based prevention and early intervention strategies.
These free interactive regional sessions will be offered virtually during the 2023-24 school year and are designed for SST and ESC staff based on results from ESC/SST survey completed last winter.
The 90-minute sessions will be offered through the regional SST quads.
Each session will include 45-minutes with ESCs and SSTs together, breakout sessions tailored for ESC and SST staff, and collective sharing of best practices and learnings.
Additional consultation sessions available for participants after each regional training.
Each ESC and SST is encouraged to register at least two people who can attend all 6 sessions. All ESC and SST staff are welcome including Family and Community Partner liaisons, family engagement staff, attendance support staff, social workers, attendance officers, PBIS- and SEL-focused staff, One Plan staff, leadership consultants and more.
Get more information on all 6 sessions, including registration links for the first three sessions. Participants are encouraged to attend their regional session but are welcome to attend the same session with a different region.
Download the Ohio Attendance Guide
Questions: Patrick Hickman, Ohio Attendance Advisor
The Ohio Department of Education, in partnership with Zearn, is providing an online differentiated learning opportunity to accelerate math learning for Ohio students in grades 6-8. To support Ohio educators with providing differentiated middle school math support, the Department is offering free access to Zearn Math, a top-rated math learning platform to reinforce and deepen grade-level learning. Zearn Math provides high-quality instructional materials, including digital math lessons with built-in differentiated support right when students need it. All Ohio districts and schools serving students in grades 6-8 may begin onboarding in the fall, with access to resources beginning in the winter and continuing through June 30, 2025.
INFORMATION:
Zearn’s approach is to work with students to continue to move forward at grade level while also catching up. Under the initiative, eligible schools service grades 6-8 and are traditional public, chartered nonpublic and community schools. Schools and districts opt in to participate.
Participating schools/districts get access to a digital platform, training and tech assistance. Access is available January 2024. There will also be “Anchor schools”. Anchor schools receive more intensive supports - onsite training, coaching, additional materials. Anchor schools start now (prior to other schools); the selection process for anchor schools was based on a math intent survey sent out by the Department this past spring and by a review of report cards and related academic achievement related data.
HOW THIS EFFORT INCLUDES ESCS:
September 25-26, 2023
Renaissance Polaris-Westerville-Columbus
OESCA's Fall Conference - Connect & Collaborate - is where educational service centers (ESCs) and state and national organizations come together for networking, professional learning, state initiative updates and resource sharing. Speakers will cover a number of topics related to Future Forward Ohio and other critical challenges currently facing ESCs and their client school districts. The conference also provides opportunities for job-alike networking, regional meetings, and conversations with your colleagues across Ohio.
PRESENTERS:
This annual professional learning experience and membership meeting includes:
BREAKOUT TRACKS:
THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS:
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HOTEL RESERVATIONS:
Click for online Hotel Group Rate Reservations or call the hotel at (614) 882-6800 and mention our group by name (OESCA Connect & Collaborate Conference Sep2023) for group rates. DO NOT book through a third-party site (e.g., Orbitz, Expedia, Hotels.com, etc.). The OESCA room block expires September 4, 2023. Please reserve your hotel room today to secure the conference room rate of $164 per night.
REGISTRATION FEES:
$400 per OESCA/OTESCA Member - every 5th attendee may attend at half off (members will be billed at a pro-rated rate of $360 per person for a 5-person team)
$450 per Non-Member
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: September 11, 2023 - registrations received after the deadline are subject to a $25 late fee per registrant. Refunds will be given for cancellations made in writing on or before September 15, 2023.
LEARN MORE:
This annual professional learning experience for Ohio educational service center (ESC) staff features state and national speakers, ESC spotlights, expert panels and Ohio Department of Education updates. The conference also provides opportunities for job alike networking.
REGISTRATION:
Registration is $399 per OESCA/OTESCA member (5th attendee may attend at 1/2 off) and $425 per non-member. Registration now closed.
Exhibitors & Sponsors
HOTEL INFORMATION:
Nationwide Hotel & Conference Center
100 Green Meadows Drive, Lewis Center, Ohio 43035
ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING:
In addition, the annual membership meeting will be a forum to:
ALSO PART OF THE SPRING CONFERENCE:
April 16 - OESCA Executive Committee Meeting
April 18 - Franklin B. Walter All Scholastic Student Awards
Contact: info@oesca.org
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All ESC staff statewide are welcome to join the Reframing Education Zoom meeting on the first Friday of each month (no meeting in April). Regional coordinators provide information and updates on state initiatives, learning opportunities, and resources and services available to ESCs. ESC staff share successes, discuss issues and network with job-alike peers statewide. Each meeting will follow a standard agenda including updates on ODE Initiatives, featured networks and related resources.
(First Friday of each month) 9:00-10:00am Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/99768034626 (NOTE NEW ZOOM ADDRESS)
[Learn more about ESC Network Regional Coordinators and view recording of previous meetings]
OESCA continually tracks and analyzes pending federal and state legislation of interest to Ohio's 51 Educational Service Centers and their client school districts. See the State Operating Budget page for details of the FY2024-25 State operating budget.
Legislative e-Updates 2023 | January 23 | March 6 | March 22 | March 27 | April 3 | April 10 | May 10 | May 22 | June 5 | June 20 | July 7 | July 12
Ohio Senate Testimony - Craig Burford, Executive Director, Ohio ESC Association (OESCA)