Highlighted Events This Week In Wicomico Schools

Thursday, Sept. 22
ESRC Dinner and Speaker
Adam’s Ribs, Fruitland

The Eastern Shore Reading Council (ESRC) fall dinner on Thursday, Sept. 22 will feature reading expert Jack Pikulski and a meal at Adam’s Ribs. The event begins at 5 p.m. at Adam’s Ribs with a meet and greet. The speaker, Jack Pikulski, is a former International Reading Association president and an expert in the field of reading. Starting at 5:30 p.m., he will speak on “Recent Approaches to Preventing and Correcting Reading Disabilities: Solutions or Passing Fads?”

Dinner will be from 6:15-7:15 p.m. and will include roast beef, chicken, salad, garlic mashed potatoes, string beans; a vegetarian meal is available. Teachers, paraprofessionals, student interns and administrators are welcome. Cost is $20 for current 2011-12 ESRC members. Teachers and administrators pay $25 membership plus $20 for dinner, or $45, and paraprofessionals and student interns pay $12 for membership and $20 dinner, or $32.

For more information on joining the ESRC or attending the fall dinner, please contact ESRC President Amanda Banks at abanks@wcboe.org.