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
*Share this with all of your full-time employees*
Heartland AEA is partnering with an advisory company, IS Loan Solutions, to help school employees improve their student loan situations and overall financial well-being. All of your full-time district employees (regardless of position) with student loans are encouraged to find out if this voluntary benefit can help them. They may qualify for loan forgiveness and refinancing to help lower or even eliminate loan payments. IS Loan Solutions has helped others reduce their monthly payments on average by 81%.
Click this link https://HeartlandAEA.myisls.com/register and enter registration code AEA11 for more information.
Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) may be able to:
- Immediately lower monthly student loan payment
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- Reduce student loan obligation
- Significantly lower costs to earn additional degrees
PSLF also provides a personalized 10-year loan forgiveness plan outlining projected tax-free savings.
Contact IS Loan Solutions at (866) 831-5564 or visit isloansolutions.com for more information and success stories.
If you registered with IS Loan Solutions in the past and were told you would not benefit from PSLF, login to your MyISLS portal and you will be directed to the refinancing option.
Don’t miss out on the 13th Annual Our Kids Summer Institute for educators and administrators of English Learners, June 13-14, 2017 at Waukee High School in Waukee. Network with other educational professionals, discover new strategies for working with English language learners in Iowa and meet national and local experts to enrich practices for increasing EL achievement. Sessions include:
- Serving English Learners with Disabilities
- Newcomer Considerations
- Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices
- ELs and Literacy Support
- Enhancing EL Instruction through Home Language Connections
- High Yield Strategies for ELs
- Successful District Programs
- First-person student voices
Featured speakers include:
- Trudy Arriaga, Ed.D. - Administrator leader and advocate for ELS, first female superintendent of Ventura Unified School District where she began as a bilingual paraeducator
- Fern Westernoff, Ph.D. - Speech language pathologist who earned her doctorate in ELL and merged two areas of expertise to inform her work in Toronto, the world’s largest K-12 EL population
- Amy Hewett-Olatunde, Ed.D. - Minnesota’s 2015 Teacher of the Year
- Major Sean Quinlan - Retired Major United States Marine Corp, ROTC Instructor at Des Moines’ North High School and former football coach featured with his team on ESPN during the 2017 Super Bowl and...
- Our amazing students!
Registration is $150 and includes lunch, snacks, Go To Strategies, OELA Newcomer Toolkit and OELA English Learner Toolkit. Seating is limited to the first 500 registrants on a first-come, first-served basis.
Register by June 4 at this link: https://goo.gl/2pXC0m
Note: Districts implementing Corrective Action Plans (CAP) for English Learners are required to send a team in accordance with the Technical Assistance Requirement under Title III. Contact your AEA Title III Consultant for additional information and financial support.
This two-credit, online course for principals, assistant principals and directors of counseling, helps school leaders understand how to engage effectively with school counselors to take the steps needed to achieve your goals in school improvement. In this course, participants will learn more about:
- The impact school counselors can have on student success
- The school counselor’s role
- A comprehensive school counseling program and how to support one
- Developing a shared vision for student success with your school counselor
This course was developed in collaboration with the National Association of Secondary School Principals and is offered through a joint agreement with the Southern Region Education Board, Iowa College Aid and AEA PD Online. It is part of a series of the Go Alliance Academy.
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DMACC Ankeny Campus has the following surplus items available. If interested, contact Julie Klocke in Purchasing at jaklocke1@dmacc.edu.
70 sled based desks
8 ft. boat shaped conference table (widest part is 4 ft)
As shared in the School Leader Update from the Iowa Department of Education:
Part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) requires states to report the percent of parents with a child receiving special education services who report that schools facilitated parent involvement as a means of improving services and results for children with disabilities. This year, the Iowa Department of Education is gathering these data as a census for both students with and without a disability using a three-question survey.
This Parent Letter has a survey link that you are asked to share with all parents via email, website, and/or social media.
If you have any questions, contact Meredith MacQuigg, Data Consultant, Iowa Department of Education at (515) 494-5610 or meredith.macquigg@iowa.gov.
The Principal TLC Coaching with the New York City Leadership Academy was presented to superintendents and principals during the Superintendents meetings the first week of April. As a reminder, the deadline for pre-registration is TODAY, April 21.
The TLC Administrator Support Program is a comprehensive, year-long professional development program focused on building your capacity as the principal to develop and facilitate distributed leadership in your school, namely by supporting and leveraging teacher leaders as part of your leadership team.
Cost for the program will be $5,000-$6,000 unless the legislature makes last minute funding changes. You may edit your TLC plan and use TLC implementation dollars for this Principal Coaching program. Please consider pre-registration so appropriate planning can be done for the 2017-18 school year.
For more information, contact Lora Rasey at the Iowa Department of Education at (515) 281-6719 or lora.rasey@iowa.gov.
