Last year, Heartland AEA piloted printing student planners for area schools. The pilot was a success and hundreds of orders were filled. Order information is now available for the 2013-2014 student planners. The planners include a full-year calendar to accommodate extended year schedules.
We have two available sizes (5.5” x 8.5” and 8.5” x 11”). Choose your preferred cover, intro pages, planner pages, note pages and calendars from our set styles for basic planners. Optional pages can be added for an additional fee (student handbook, activities calendars, etc.). Order quantities must be a minimum of 50 planners.
Standard Planner Prices
5.5” x 8.5” - $1.50 per planner
8.5” x 11” - $2.60 per planner
Click here to see the standard styles you can choose from and here for the order form. Please complete and return the order form to Creative Services at creativeservices@aea11.k12.ia.us.
For more information or to personalize your school's planners, contact Creative Services directly at (800) 255-0405 ext. 14368.
The Iowa Educator Consortium Winter Paper Bid has been awarded to The Paper Corporation out of Des Moines. This statewide purchasing opportunity offers excellent pricing on a large variety of paper weights, colors and sizes as well as envelopes.
Order forms were sent in December directly to schools via AEA van mail delivery, but are also available on the Iowa Educator Consortium website.
When placing an order, all POs/orders should be sent directly to:
The Paper Corporation
1770 N.E. 58th Avenue
P.O. Box 599
Des Moines, IA 50302
Fax: (515) 263-1641
Orders are due January 11, 2013.
Delivery is to be completed by the end of March. If you have questions regarding the ordering process or would like to request color swatches and/or paper samples, contact Mary Cross at mcross@fcdist.com or (800) 369-8733.
As there was no January HAA meeting, please click here for the January SAI Update for superintendents.
Heartland AEA will once again be hosting school budget workshops for public school superintendents and business managers with the goal to assist schools in completing their school budget in a single work session. As we did last year, the workshop days will be split into two sessions, morning and afternoon.
The morning sessions are reserved for new managers or those who have less experience. The afternoon sessions are reserved for those who do not need as much assistance. Click here for a past Administrator Connection article to find more information and how to register for a session.
Since 2008, the Department has employed eighty outstanding teachers on a full- or part-time basis through the Teaching Ambassador Fellowship program. This highly selective program was created because in the belief that teachers should have meaningful opportunities to both contribute to and understand the policies that impact their students and school communities. When families, students and other teachers want information about education, it is most often to teachers that they turn.
The Teaching Ambassador Fellowship supports the Department’s mission by employing a diverse cadre of teachers to gain significant knowledge about the Department information and resources, share this information with other educators across the country and contribute their classroom expertise to the national dialogue.
Teaching Ambassador Fellows are outstanding teachers, with a record of leadership, strong communication skills and insights into educational policy based in classroom expertise. They come with networks of support from their professional communities and have participated in training or development programs that have prepared them to write and speak frequently about teaching, educational leadership and/or policy.
The Washington Fellowship is a full-time appointment based at the Department’s Headquarters in Washington. The Classroom Fellowship enables teachers to participate on a part-time basis for the Department, in addition to their regular school responsibilities, working in collaboration with the Department’s Regional Offices.
All Teaching Ambassador Fellows spend one year learning about key federal programs and policies; sharing their expertise with federal staff members; and providing outreach and communication about federal initiatives to other educators on behalf of the Department in order to help teachers understand and implement these efforts at the federal, state and local levels, to improve the likelihood of their success. For the Fellows, the program adds greater knowledge of educational policy and leadership to their toolkits to contribute to solutions at all levels for long intractable challenges in education.
Applications for the U.S. Department of Education’s fifth cohort of Teaching Ambassador Fellows are now open. The application period will close on January 29, 2013 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time. For more information about the application process, visit the program page at www.ed.gov/programs/teacherfellowship or go directly to the applications for the Washington and Classroom Fellowships on www.usajobs.gov.
By request, we will now include the Iowa Department of Education’s School Leader Updates each month in the Administrator Connection. Click here to download the January 2013 issue. This issue includes timely information about a new school safety guide, continued efforts to increase participation in school breakfast, and a new initiative to collect information about Internet access in Iowa school buildings.
The application and supporting documents for the student member to the State Board of Education are available on the Iowa Department of Education’s website at http://bit.ly/Ukcopk or contact Jody Crane at jody.crane@iowa.gov.
The term of the student member starts May 1, 2013 and ends April 30, 2014. The Board meets at least seven times during that term, with most meetings taking place in the Grimes State Office Building in Des Moines. The deadline for submitting an application with all required documents is February 1, 2013.
Besides being a full-time, regularly enrolled 10th or 11th grade student in a public high school, the student must meet these requirements:
- Has a GPA of at least 3.0 (4.0 scale) or 3.75 (5.0 scale)
- Has attended his/her present high school at least the past two consecutive semesters (or the equivalent thereof)
- Demonstrates participation in extracurricular and community activities, as well as an interest in serving on the board
The Iowa Department of Education is seeking poster entries from students promoting school bus safety. Entries must reflect this year’s theme: At My Stop – You Stop. The contest is sponsored by the National Association for Pupil Transportation. Students from kindergarten through the eighth grade are encouraged to enter. Each school district needs to determine one winner from each category and then forward them onto the Iowa Department of Education.
Posters will be accepted by the Department through April 30, 2013.
For specific contest details, go to http://bit.ly/VB3Hqt.
