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
All Iowa districts now have premium access to Pear Deck! The technology contact from each district is asked to connect with Pear Deck and provide teacher email addresses to start the sign-up process. Please reference this information to complete the process and learn more about Pear Deck professional learning opportunities for teachers, trainers and/or coaches.
AEA Learning Online is offering Blend Flip Course 1 for both secondary and elementary teachers in November. This course is three face-to-face days with blended opportunities each day. Because of the pandemic and difficulty getting subs, these three days will be offered on the following Saturdays: Nov. 7, 14 and 21.
Sign up here:
Secondary BF Course 1
Elementary BF Course 1
For Teachers: If you are teaching students who are on the alternate assessment, you must complete student profiles and certification training. This document contains the deadlines, new information and links to the state commencement letter, training sites, office hours and other resources.For Administrators: All teachers who have students on the alternate assessment must be certified as strategist II ID and complete certification training. Administrators are responsible for creating teacher accounts for the ELAA system, as well as creating rosters for DLM. This document contains deadlines, new information, and links to the state commencement letter, training sites, office hours and other resources.
Are you looking for remote learning resources? Literacy or Pear Deck resources? Professional Learning courses for technology integration? Or maybe you’d like to connect with other computer science teachers? All of this is available in our Smore newsletter. If you need additional support, contact your Heartland AEA Instructional Technology Consultant.
The Iowa Department of Education is pleased to bring myIGDIs to preschools in Iowa at no cost. As an optional screening tool, myIGDIs for preschool literacy complements the required GOLD assessment. It is also part of a healthy MTSS system supporting a robust universal tier of instruction.
In Iowa myIGDIs is:
- Recommended for learners attending a preschool program in the year before kindergarten.
- Available for use with learners participating in programs with a state assigned district ID, building ID, and student ID.
- Administered on two bluetooth-enabled iPads (one in teacher mode, one in student mode) using the free myIGDIs App.
- Available to previous users of myIGDIs right away during the fall window (through Nov. 14).
- Potentially available to new users through the state contract. Stay tuned for more information.
Training on the myIGDIs Early Literacy assessments, data displays and data use will be available online. There are several resources available through Renaissance online, and planning is occurring to support Iowa specifically with live webinars. For 2020-21, data will be housed in the myIGDIs early literacy data system. Future plans include integrating the data into the state supported MTSS system.
Early literacy in preschool provides the foundation for academic and social-emotional success. Assessment data from myIGDIs can translate into creating learning experiences to build oral language, vocabulary, phonological awareness, comprehension and alphabet knowledge. It (myIGDIs) is aligned to the Iowa Early Learning Standards (IELS).
Stay tuned for more information about sign-up and how to receive regular communications about myIGDIs.
Release from Renaissance on Sept. 3, 2020.
