Our Mission
To improve the learning outcomes and well-being of all children and youth by providing services and leadership in partnership with families, schools and communities.
Our Goals
- Increase learning growth for students
- Decrease the gap in achievement
- Increase annual graduation rates
- Increase gateways to post-secondary success
Improve your data collection skills with this course:
Instructional Practices Inventory Level I Workshop
Date: Jan. 24, 2017
Time: 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Location: Heartland AEA, Regional Education Center, 6500 Corporate Drive, Johnston, IA
Registration
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If you have successfully completed the IPI Level I workshop, this workshop will help you increase student engagement throughout the school day by focusing on technology infusion:
Instructional Practices Inventory Technology Workshop
Date: Jan. 25, 2017
Time: 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Location: Heartland AEA, Regional Education Center, 6500 Corporate Drive, Johnston, IA
Registration
If you have questions, contact Karla Day, Professional Learning and Leadership Consultant, at kday@heartlandaea.org.
The two-day Iowa Science Standards Module 2 workshops are a continuation of the work that was begun last year with the Iowa Core Science Standards Overview (Module 1). Participation in Module 1 (or something equivalent) is a prerequisite for Module 2. The focus this year will be on unpacking the standards and developing coherent science lessons/units. This will include identifying "the right" (scientific) phenomena to use in a lesson/unit, using portions of the EQuIP Rubric to measure the alignment to the NGSS and overall quality of lessons/units and bundling standards in a lesson/unit. All workshops are scheduled from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Educators have the option of taking the Iowa Science Standards Module 1 from AEA PD Online. This can be used as a review or as new learning for those who were unable to take the PD last year. If you choose to take the online Module 1, we encourage you to take this session as a group, so you have meaningful group conversations. To access Module 1 Online visit the AEA PD Online website, click on the "Catalog" button and search for "science standards." Participants will need to login (or create a login) in order to take this online module.
All Module 2 workshops and registration links can be found on this page of our website.
The Iowa Board of Educational Examiners Nov. 2016 BoEE Newsletter addresses ethics for educators, provides website reminders, includes an attorney update from Darcy Lane and offers guidelines on social networking usage.
American Education Week—Nov. 14-18, 2016—will present all Americans with a wonderful opportunity to celebrate public education and honor individuals who are making a difference in ensuring that every child receives a quality education. 2016's theme, "Great Public Schools: A Basic Right and Our Responsibility," is reflected in special observances each day of the 2016 weeklong celebration.
Letters About Literature (LAL) is a reading/writing contest sponsored by the Library of Congress that challenges students in grades 4 through 12 to become independent readers. Young readers respond to the work they have read (fiction or nonfiction, a short story, poem, essay or speech) by exploring the personal relationship between themselves, the author, and the work’s characters or themes, and then write a personal letter to an author explaining how that author’s work changed their way of thinking about the world or themselves.
Letters are judged on state and national levels and students are eligible to win cash awards and submission for judging at the national level. Grades 9-12 letters must be postmarked by Dec. 2, 2016 and grades 4-8 must be postmarked by Jan. 9, 2017.
Complete information about the 2017 Letters About Literature program (classroom teaching guide, how LAL helps meet the Iowa Core, entry coupons, judges’ criteria) is available on the Iowa Center for the Book website.
**Please forward this email to language arts, gifted/talented and other teachers in your schools who emphasize reading and writing in their disciplines.
The Iowa Department of Education’s Nov. 2016 School Leader Update is now available.
