Heartland AEA will be undergoing renovations to our print department during the month of May. We do not anticipate any difficulties in printing or delivering your requests. During the renovation time period, an off-site print shop will do our printing, and our van delivery will pick up the printed material and distribute to the schools as usual. The method of ordering your print jobs during the renovation will remain the same. Please use the same request forms for your jobs until further notice.
Our new equipment will offer current and additional products faster and more economically. Please contact Heartland Communications at comms@aea11.k12.ia.us for any questions you may have on our print department renovation.
Friday, May 1, 2009
Be Prepared for the H1N1 Virus (Swine Flu)
The Iowa Department of Education will be providing updates and revised guidance about the Novel Influenza (H1N1) Virus (Swine Flu) on their Web site: www.iowa.gov/educate.
Included in their updates will be action steps and resources available for schools. They will also be providing an FAQ for education-specific information (e.g., If I close one building, do we need to make up that school day?). Due to the rapidly changing status of H1N1, guidance will be updated as it becomes available. It is recommended that you check the Web site frequently.
You can also visit this Web site http://www.magnetmail.net/actions/email_web_version.cfm?recipient_id=133813762&message_id=718792&user_id=NSPRA from the National School Public Relations Association. It provides more information on how to communicate about the H1N1 virus to school staff and to parents. Visit http://www.nspra.org/node/3249 to find examples of how schools around the country are communicating about the virus.
Also visit http://www.cdc.gov/germstopper/materials.htm to download posters from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about hand washing and proper hygiene.
Included in their updates will be action steps and resources available for schools. They will also be providing an FAQ for education-specific information (e.g., If I close one building, do we need to make up that school day?). Due to the rapidly changing status of H1N1, guidance will be updated as it becomes available. It is recommended that you check the Web site frequently.
You can also visit this Web site http://www.magnetmail.net/actions/email_web_version.cfm?recipient_id=133813762&message_id=718792&user_id=NSPRA from the National School Public Relations Association. It provides more information on how to communicate about the H1N1 virus to school staff and to parents. Visit http://www.nspra.org/node/3249 to find examples of how schools around the country are communicating about the virus.
Also visit http://www.cdc.gov/germstopper/materials.htm to download posters from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about hand washing and proper hygiene.
Discover Reading Recovery at Heartland AEA
Reading Recovery is a highly effective short-term intervention of one-to-one instruction for the lowest-achieving first graders. Individual students receive a half-hour lesson each school day for 12 to 20 weeks with a specially trained Reading Recovery teacher. As soon as students can meet grade-level expectations and demonstrate that they can continue to work independently in the classroom, their lessons are discontinued, and new students begin individual instruction.
Reading Recovery’s one-to-one instruction delivers measurable results in weeks not years. After a full 12 to 20-week series of lessons, more than 66% of students meet grade-level expectations.
For information on this shared-cost initiative click here.
To enroll a teacher in the Reading Recovery training, contact Geri Jacobs at gjacobs@aea11.k12.ia.us by June 5, 2009.
Reading Recovery’s one-to-one instruction delivers measurable results in weeks not years. After a full 12 to 20-week series of lessons, more than 66% of students meet grade-level expectations.
For information on this shared-cost initiative click here.
To enroll a teacher in the Reading Recovery training, contact Geri Jacobs at gjacobs@aea11.k12.ia.us by June 5, 2009.
Check List Item for Your District Handbooks
As part of the requirement for districts to meet compliance with Chapter 103-Corporal Punishment regulations, the following statement from the Iowa Department of Education should be in district handbooks annually. Click here for a Word doc of this notice.
This text was prepared and approved by the Department.
Notice: Corporal Punishment, Restraint, and Physical Confinement and Detention
State law forbids schools employees from using corporal punishment against any student. Certain actions by school employees are not considered corporal punishment. Additionally, school employees may use “reasonable and necessary force, not designed or intended to cause pain” to do certain things, such as prevent harm to persons or property.
State law also places limits school employees’ abilities to restrain or confine and detain any student. The law limits why, how, where, and for how long a school employee may restrain or confine and detain a child. If a child is restrained or confined and detained, the school must maintain documentation and must provide certain types of notice to the child’s parent.
[If school or AEA has additional policies or procedures, briefly describe them here].
If you have any questions about this state law, please contact your school. The complete text of the law and additional information is available on the Iowa Department of Education’s Web site: www.iowa.gov/educate.
Acceptable Use Policies Becoming A Relic?
As the use of the Internet is becoming more central to the educational curriculum, the nature of Acceptable Use Polices (AUPs) is becoming an outdated concept. Click here to read more on this issue.
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