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Educational Support
Umatilla-Morrow ESD
The Umatilla-Morrow ESD serves twelve school
districts in Umatilla and Morrow Counties.
Those twelve districts are scattered over
5,280 square miles. In addition to the core
services provided to its member districts,
the ESD also provides extensive services
throughout Eastern Oregon through the
Intermountain Purchasing Co-op,
Intermountain Technology Consortium, the
Print Shop, Assessment & Testing, Special
Education and various other services.
The ESD has been serving students in Eastern
Oregon for more than forty years and
maintains its headquarters in Pendleton.
Satellite work stations have been developed
in Umatilla, Hermiston, Milton-Freewater, La
Grande, Baker City, John Day and Vale.
Throughout its long history, the ESD has
maintained a focus on meeting the needs of
its constituent school districts and the
children they serve. One of the mainstays of
regional service has been and continues to
be Special Education. All of the
psychologists, physical therapists,
occupational therapists, and speech,
language, autism, and vision specialists who
work in the local schools are provided by
the ESD.
The Instructional Services department, which
includes Migrant/ELL program(s), and the
Educational Initiatives department are part
of a comprehensive ESD plan to enhance and
expand services provided to area school
districts and patrons to compensate for
ever-shrinking educational resources. All
work teams within Instructional Services
assume the responsibility of providing
professional and general staff development
specific to their focus areas, in addition
to providing assistance with school
improvement processes. Service areas are
identified as follows: Assessment,
Instructional Resources, Resource
Procurement, Home Schooling, Secondary
Education, Toolkit, a program that provides
leadership, resources and coordination of
continuing education opportunities to assist
newer teachers in finding success during the
first stages of their teaching careers and
Special Projects.
Sylvan Learning Center
The Pendleton Sylvan Learning Center is
located at 3201 SW Perkins just off of Hwy.
395. Sylvan Learning Centers, the leading
provider of supplemental education offers
personalized instructional services to
students of all ages and skill levels. With
25 years of experience and more than 1000
centers located throughout North America,
Sylvan Learning Center is the largest
organization of its kind in the industry.
At Sylvan, students develop the skills to do
better in school and the confidence to do
better in everything else.
It starts with a proven process that
works, called the Sylvan Advantage. We
identify each student’s specific needs,
then, Sylvan's trained and certified
teachers provide individual attention and
personalized lessons in reading, writing,
mathematics, study skills and test-prep for
college entrance and state exams. Regular
progress reports keep parents informed.
Sylvan students can receive one-on-one
teacher to student assistance in areas of
reading, writing, and math. Sylvan also
offers courses to help students prepare for
the ACT and SAT college entrance exams. |
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