Iowa Core Curriculum Update

Leadership for the Iowa Core Year Two, Day Three sessions are quickly approaching. There are still opportunities to register if you have not already done so. The session will focus on updates for the six outcomes, future plans, information about collaborative teams and their role in outcome 6, and time for teams to engage in implementation planning. A team needs to register for and attend just one Day Three session, as the content will be repeated at each location. Please note each is a full day session.

Participants must register for the session they plan to attend using the online registration on Heartland’s website, www.aea11.k12.ia.us. Click on Course Catalog in the Quick Links on the lower left hand side, enter the appropriate activity number and continue with your registration information.

Date: Thursday, April 8, 2010
Time: 8:30 a.m.‐3:30 p.m. with lunch on your own
Locations:
1. Third Reformed Church, 708 East 13th Street, Pella
Activity number: DR287099991013

2. First United Methodist Church, 307 W Ashland Ave, Indianola
Activity number: DR287099991014

3. Botanical Center, 909 Robert D. Ray Drive, Des Moines
Activity number: DR287099991015

OR

Date: Monday, April 12, 2010
Time: 8:30 a.m.‐3:30 p.m. with lunch on your own
Location: Zion Lutheran Church, 4300 Beaver Ave, Des Moines
Activity number: DR287099991016

OR

Date: Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Time: 8:30 a.m.‐3:30 p.m. with lunch on your own
Locations:
1. Carrollton Inn, 1730 US Highway 71 North, Carroll
Activity number: DR287099991017

2. Oakwood Road Church, 2400 Oakwood Road, Ames
Activity number: DR287099991018

3. Zion Lutheran Church, 4300 Beaver Ave, Des Moines
Activity number: DR287099991019

If you have questions or need assistance, please contact: Linda Biermann Hoobin, Teaching and Learning Consultant for the Iowa Core, lhoobin@aea11.k12.ia.us, 515-270-0405 extension 14327.

Workshop to help link Iowa schools to healthy, local food sources

School food-service directors play a crucial role in the health of Iowa's children, according to Andrea Geary coordinator of the Northern Iowa Food & Farm Partnership (NIFFP) housed at the University of Northern Iowa's Center for Energy & Environmental Education.

NIFFP is sponsoring an educational workshop for food-service directors, farmers, community members and interested individuals to show how food service directors can serve healthy, fresh food to students through a farm-to-school food program. The workshop will be from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Thursday, April 15, at UNI's Malcolm Price Lab School.

Click here to download a flyer for the workshop. The event is open to the public. Registration is required; the $30 registration fee includes lunch. To register contact Geary at andrea.geary@uni.edu or (319) 273-7883.

NIFFP is the co-lead agency for the Midwest National Farm to School Network (NFTSN) and works with farm-to-school programs in the Waterloo Community School, Independence Community School District, and UNI's Price Laboratory School. Find more information at www.niffp.org.

Grant Wood AEA to host Suicide Prevention Workshop

Grant Wood Area Education Agency is hosting a conference on suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention. Click here for a flyer that describes the conference which will be held in Cedar Rapids on April 12, 2010.