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.
2024-2025 School Year
The Instructional Support Center will opened for the 2024-2025 school year on Aug. 27. Hours of operation for the school year are 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.