Instructional Support Center
The Instructional Support Center (formerly the Teacher Support Center) provides equipment and resources needed for staff to laminate, create posters, die cut, create instructional materials, and browse instructional aides.
Paper is provided or staff may bring their own supply. There is no charge for paper, supplies, or laminating.
Special Hours: August 2024
The Instructional Support Center will be open Tuesday, August 13 and Wednesday, August 14 from 12-3 p.m. For these dates only, no scheduling will be required to use the laminator and poster maker, however staff are limited to 15-minute use of the machines and quantities are limited to one class set or resources.
2024-2025 School Year
The Instructional Support Center will fully open for the 2024-2025 school year at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, August 27. Hours of operation for the school year will be Tuesdays-Thursdays from 4-7 p.m.
Hours of Operation:
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays
4:00-7:00 p.m.
Location:
9645 Gerwig Lane
Columbia, MD 21046
Contact:
Phone: 410-313-7013 (during open hours of operation)
Die Cuts
The Teacher Support Center has a comprehensive collection of over 900 decorative dies from 1″ to 14″ and 7 different alphabetic fonts from 2″ to 10″. There are 70 different Resource and Culture boxes that can be borrowed. A variety of teaching/learning aides in Math, Science, Language Arts, and Social Studies are on display with master copies available.
Anything that can be cut with scissors can be cut on the die cut machines. Please no foam core board.
Materials the die cut machines will cut:
- Cardstock
- Compressed Sponges
- Construction paper
- Cotton fabric
- Felt
- File folders
- Foam sheets
- Foil
- Magazine pages
- Maps
- Metallic tissue paper
- Newspaper
- Poster Board
- Sandpaper
- Tissue paper
- Wallpaper
Note: If you want your die cut items to be laminated, laminate the paper first, if your die cut items are to be glued on to something else, laminate the whole thing when you are done.