Our Mission
To provide services and leadership, in partnership with families, schools and communities, that improve
the learning outcomes and well-being of all children and youth.
Our Goals
• Increase learning growth for students
• Decrease the gap in achievement
• Increase annual graduation rates
• Increase gateways to post-secondary success
District Administrators with ELLs: and your ELL Teams:
Please register, in the Heartland Professional catalog, and attend the Lau Plan Writing Workshop to be held on May 11 at Heartland AEA at 8:30 -11:30 a.m. in Rooms 107 A and B. The course number is ES009092111501.
Participants will take away clear guidance and a checklist to ensure that their district Lau Plan is approved following the 2015 upload.
Your ESL/Diversity Consultants Janet Hiatt and Stephaney Jones-Vo look forward to seeing you there!
For the past several years, DMACC Libraries have sponsored the One Book One College One Community program. The idea is to use a single, common book in DMACC classrooms to foster opportunities for creativity, academic dialogue, critical thinking and fellowship. For the 2015-16 school year, they have selected title Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. The author will be at the Ankeny and Boone campuses on October 22, 2015 for open presentations about her book.
This year, they’d like to invite high schools in the surrounding DMACC communities (i.e. high schools in the Heartland AEA area) the opportunity to participate as well, so as to expand on the notion of “community” in the program. DMACC Libraries have 100 copies of the book that they will give away to area high school classes that would like to use the book as part of the curriculum. There is no cost to participate and the books are given to the school to keep.
Please feel free to forward this email to a teacher(s) in your high school who might be interested. Any high school course is eligible to apply. (DMACC dual-credit course are already eligible for this program.) There is a very short application process with a deadline of May 15, 2015. More information on this short application is available here.
Visit the DMACC site to learn more about the One Book One College One Community program.
Find more information about Iowa State University’s PreLEAD Program for Principal Licensure and Certificate of Advanced Study (CAS) Program, starting this fall and summer respectively.
We are excited to announce a professional development opportunity for school teams and AEA staff - Showcase of PBIS Systems and Practices
–happening May 6 at the DMACC Ankeny FFA Enrichment Center. We will
have content related to a variety of topics and age/grade levels. The
presentation will showcase local schools sharing examples of systems and
practices that have been effective within the Heartland AEA area.
Scheduled topics include:
- Restructuring of PBIS Leadership team to align with TLC grant (within an MTSS system)
- Building Relationships
Community Involvement
- Family Involvement in an Early Childhood setting
- Sustainability of PBIS practices
- Implementation at the Middle School level
- Tier 2 Systems at the Elementary level
- Evidence-based practices in Tier 3
- Building consensus and involving students in a High School PBIS system
Target Audience: Schools
interested in learning more about implementing MTSS systems for behavior
and teams already implementing PBIS
Registration is now open.
AEA PD Online has released a new Self-Paced Course called Financial Literacy. The course can be found on the online training system, and like other self-paced courses, is available for one license renewal credit. This course, built with consultation from Stefanie Wager (Iowa Department of Education), helps teachers learn more about financial literacy with the modules on savings, banking, credit and payment types, credit scores and financial planning, and be able to use that understanding to integrate financial literacy into their teaching. This course supports the Iowa Core’s 21st Century Skills framework.
Intended Audience: All educators
Cost: $60, paid at the end of the course
Credit: 1 license renewal credit
Time to complete: 15 hours+
Instructor: Denise Krefting (dkrefting@aeapdonline.org)
To access the course: 1) go to http://training.aeapdonline.org and login, 2) click on the “catalog” tab (underneath “courses” at the top), and then select “Financial Literacy (License Renewal)” from the list, 3) click the register button in the pop-up text.
This course features 5 modules, in addition to an introduction and cumulative activities:
• Savings
• Banking
• Credit and Payment Types
• Credit Scores
• Financial Planning
The National Autism
Center has recently released the new review and analysis of
interventions for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) based on research
conducted in the field from 2007 to 2012. The new publication
provides an update to the summary of empirical intervention literature
(published in the National Standards Report in 2009) and includes
studies evaluating interventions for adults (22+), which have never been
systematically evaluated before now.
This project is designed to
give educators, parents, practitioners and organizations the
information and resources they need to make informed choices about
effective interventions that will offer children and adults on the
spectrum the greatest hope for their future.
