Requested Item: Your Assistance is Needed!

The Heartland AEA Communications Department is involved in a video project with the purpose of gathering Iowa high school student perspectives on education and would appreciate your assistance. This project includes the Wallace Foundation, Iowa Department of Education, Iowa State Education Association, Iowa Association of School Boards, School Administrators of Iowa and Iowa's Area Education Agencies. These videos will be used to help us in marketing efforts about Iowa's education, the Iowa Core and will provide insight from students' perspectives.

We'd like to capture students' answers on video to the following questions:

1. What do you want to be when you graduate? Where do you see yourself in five years?
2. What’s your favorite class and why? What makes school interesting for you and why?
3. What ways could you be “plugged-in” when you’re at school?
4. What one word describes your school experience?

Students will be asked to share their first name and grade level; they will not identify their last name. Interviews will be done at the school building; however, the name of the school building/district will not be identified.

Additional help we need from you:

1. Select 2-3 students to be interviewed. (This can be done whenever it's convenient and is least intrusive for their schedules. It should take less than 10 minutes per student interview.)
2. Have a parent of participating students sign a release form found here.
3. Let us conduct the interview between now and April 20.

If this is something your district could assist with, we'd be very grateful. All interested districts may contact the Heartland Communications Department at comms@aea11.k12.ia.us.

Thanks for your consideration!

Summer 2010 Paraeducator Generalist Certificate Program

Heartland AEA is an approved provider of the Paraeducator Generalist Certificate Program. Click here for information on our Summer 2010 courses.

Superintendents: April HAA Minutes

Click here for the minutes from the April Heartland Administrators Association meeting. Also available is Julie Melcher's handout located here. The minutes and handouts are also posted on Heartland's Web site at http://www.aea11.k12.ia.us/leaders/ldr/admin.html.

The last HAA meeting for this academic year will be on May 4. Please remember that the May HAA meeting will take place in Rooms 3 & 4 of the Heartland AEA Johnston office.