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Find out when Brad Waid kicks off the new Heartland AEA Leadership Series on Oct. 2 with workshops for superintendents in the morning and all educators in the afternoon. Brad will speak about emerging technology and the impact it’s having now in our schools, the impact it will have in the future and questions we need to be asking ourselves now. Come join us for a great afternoon of learning! Transforming the Classroom through Augmented Reality Oct. 2, 2018 DMACC, Student Center, Bldg 5 2006 S. Ankeny Blvd, Ankeny Registration: Superintendent Session 9 a.m. - Noon Register Now All Educators Session 1 - 4 p.m. Register Now The Heartland AEA Leadership Series is presented by some of today’s most intriguing, innovative and influential leaders from around the country who will share their background, insight and knowledge with you. Speakers will candidly share their experiences, discuss challenges that have impacted their work and provide a unique opportunity for you to learn from their hands-on experiences.
This video, produced by the Communications Directors from Iowa’s AEAs, describes a number of the ways AEAs provide support to new teachers (and veterans teachers) around the state. It’s hard to know everything that’s available – please share this video with new teachers you know to help them better understand the many services that are available to them.
Strand of SBL Framework: Standards-Based Learning Nov. 29, 2018 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Register at this link Jan Chappuis will focus on all aspects of curriculum: the intended, the enacted, and the assessed. She will address the work of identifying and unpacking standards of learning to create learning targets. Jan will help teachers know how to identify those learning targets into categories such as knowledge, reasoning, skills or products. She will lead learning on what a balanced assessment system looks like, and what it takes to create that system within the instructional cycle. Last, Jan will address the need to plan for accommodations and modifications for exceptional learners such as special education students, ELL and gifted/advanced learners. Participants must be registered by Oct. 15 since this is a national speaker. So get registered now!
Nine EdCamp-style workshops will be held throughout the 2018-19 school year to provide additional learning, collaboration and conversation for those interested in Standards-Based Learning (SBL) Including Grading and Reporting. The workshops coincide with specific strands of the Standards-Based Learning Framework developed by Heartland AEA. You can attend whatever sessions are of interest to you; you do not need to attend all nine. Come learn with us! Standards-Based Learning Framework Fridays First Friday of the month from October 2018 to May 2019 Next Session: Oct. 5 12:30 - 3:30 p.m. Visit our website to learn more and register
Parents and caregivers of students with special needs: join us for “Conversation & Coffee,” our monthly morning coffee group! Learn about community resources and upcoming events and network with parents who have similar experiences and challenges. Mark your calendar for these 2018-19 meeting dates!
The vision of the Drake University Continual Improvement Network is to transform education in Iowa in order to restore joy in learning, teaching and leading in Iowa’s schools. The network provides opportunities to learn and work together to solve real problems of practice through the process of systemic continual improvement. The network will meet four times throughout the school year and for one full day in the summer, providing opportunities to learn and work together to solve real “Problems of Practice” (POP) through the process of systemic continual improvement. Collegial relationships will be forged as the network brings leaders together from across the state to learn and work interdependently. License renewal credit is available (Course Title: Profound Learning and Improvement II Activity #: AD023799961901) Network Dates Sept. 19 & Nov. 14, 2018; Feb. 20 & April 24, 2019 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. Levitt Hall, Drake University and June 12, 2019 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Levitt Hall, Drake University Interested? Contact: Dr. Doug Stilwell Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership Drake University doug.stilwell@drake.edu 515-271-1993 (Office) 515-418-5363 (Cell) Who is a school leader? Anyone who leads a system (classroom, program, department, school, district, etc). *These experiences can count toward clinical hours for Drake EDL students.
The Iowa Department of Education is offering training on creating high quality Emergency Operations Plans for public and non-public school districts at Heartland AEA on Sept. 24. Also titled, “School Active Shooter Plan Workshop,” this all-day workshop is designed to help schools develop high quality plans that cover active shooter and natural disaster events. This was passed into law in Senate File 2364 requiring all K-12 schools in Iowa to write plans that help prepare for these events. This workshop will cover the following:
The new legislation, what it requires, when it is due
Schools will identify who at each school is going to develop these plans
The specific planning elements required
How to form a planning team, inviting stakeholders to help
REMS/TA: Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools/Technical Assistance: plan format, resources for schools, Run/Hide/Fight
Explore the PTER Preparedness Cycle: Plan, Train, Exercise, Repeat
Share the monthly follow-on schedule to help attendees stay on track and have a plan by June 30, 2019
Register at this link for the Sept. 24 training at Heartland AEA: https://goo.gl/NnnTT4 For questions, contact David Johnston, Homeland Security and Emergency Management, at (515) 725-3295 or david.johnston@iowa.gov.
