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
Attention superintendents, we would like you or a designee to complete this brief survey by end of day today, Nov. 1. We are gathering data from all of the districts in our service area to see what data points are collected and measured during your school improvement process. The survey should only take you about five minutes to complete. Thank you for your time!
Sometimes you have to hear the things you don’t want to hear in order to move forward, to be better and to get results. Hamish Brewer will take you on a hard-hitting journey that will challenge to rethink your practices, to disrupt the norm and change the game. Find out if you have or are willing to go one more round, if you’re willing to advocate for every single person and child. Find out if you’re willing to take your school or organization to the next level. Watch his Tedx: How radical love transformed a school Be Relentless With Hamish Brewer When March 3, 2010 9 - 11 a.m. Keynote, Q&A and Book Signing Location Des Moines Area Community College, Student Center, 2006 S. Ankeny Blvd. Ankeny, IA Registration Register at no cost at this link: bit.ly/2VLliHt *Bonus*The first 25 people who register receive Mr. Brewer’s book, Relentless: Changing Lives by Disrupting the Educational Norm.
Heartland AEA will print single page, 2-sided, color ISASP Student Reports for $0.11 a page. Districts should follow their normal protocol for submitting print requests in Creative Services Online.
The person submitting the file should leave "Save To My Files"unchecked when they submit the print request. This protects students' personally identifiable information.
The Nov. 2019 Iowa AEA System Update for Superintendents includes information about AEA Scout, TLC fund balances, the new AEA Purchasing Marketplace, teacher librarian collaborations, legislative advocacy event, and meeting the requirements of recent mental health legislation.
Get your teams registered for additional learning opportunities in Standards-Based Learning with Tom Schimmer and Tammy Heflbower. These two dynamos return in December and February to take participants into a deep dive into SBL Belief System and Implementation Considerations and Learning Targets, Scales & Rubrics.
Tom Schimmer Strand of SBL Framework: Belief System and Implementation Considerations Dec. 3, 2019 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. Registration link: http://bit.ly/33XkM8S
If critical thinking, creativity, flexibility and adaptability, collaboration, complex communication and productivity and accountability are some of the knowledge, skills and dispositions you desire for your students, then you would benefit from a way to design Universal Constructs into curriculum, instruction and assessment. Using Universal Constructs to Design for Future-Ready Success Dec. 5, 2019 and Jan. 13, 2020 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. Heartland AEA, Johnston Regional Education Center, 6500 Corporate Drive, Johnston, IA
Introduction to Universal Constructs and learning progressions
Connect the Universal Constructs to current district and state initiatives
Determine the instructional strategies that will be used to elicit student understanding of the Constructs
Modify lessons and/or assessments to incorporate the Universal Constructs
The Iowa Council of Administrators of Special Education (iCASE) is presenting three great learning opportunities for administrators who are looking for more information about special education issues. The iCASE Webinar Series will be held from Nov. - April and provides information about school finance, advocacy, legal issues, mediation and more. View the series information here and register at this link: http://bit.ly/31XuoPp.
As a part of the Heartland AEA Instructional Technology consultants’ planned year of professional learning webinars, networking, coaching and collaboration, you won’t want to miss the Nov. 7 webinars, Communicating Student Learning and Guiding Informed Action with Jennifer Williams, Ed.D., and Monica Burns, Ed.D. Register for the webinars at this link: http://bit.ly/35Xc8sO
Wait! There’s Smore: Check out the Instructional Technology newsletter to see upcoming offerings, view past trainings and make plans for the school year! Save the Date! Heart of Innovation, June 10, 2020 Featuring John Spencer, former middle school teacher and current college professor and the author of books centered on creativity, student-centered learning and innovation.
