- Needs to have someone trained to manage HEART?
- Is losing a key staff person who is currently running HEART?
- Has a key staff person in need of a refresher?
- Needs a backup person trained? (We always recommend you have a backup.)
Friday, April 1, 2011
Additional HEART Training Opportunity
Is one of the below situations true for your school/district?
Superintendents: April HAA Agenda
Online Resources: Discovery Education Streaming Update
Discovery Education (DE) was not awarded the 2011-2013 Iowa AEA Online video-streaming contract. The statewide bid for DE Streaming was a 500% increase in cost. (This is separate from the DE Science K-8 product.) DE changed their marketing strategy and will target individual schools and districts, rather than work with AEAs or state consortiums. We share the schools’ disappointment in the loss of this resource statewide.
In response, the AEAs
DE Streaming Terms of Service After June 30, 2011
According to the DE Streaming terms of service, after June 30, 2011 users will no longer be authorized to view, save, store, display or use in any manner, any of the Discovery Education content. As agreed upon in the Iowa statewide contract for the subscription, once the subscription expires, schools may not access or view any of the content thereafter, wherever it may be located, and have committed to make sure that any and all copies or materials that you, or any students, teachers or administrators, have downloaded or saved from Discovery Education are completely erased, deleted or destroyed from all school computers, servers, flash drives, DVDs and other portable storage devices. This includes downloaded videos, images, audio files, lesson plans or presentations from the Discovery Educator Network Resource library.
In response, the AEAs
- have identified the most-used video titles/series in DE Streaming and are in the process of purchasing digital rights to the same or similar content. The target, of course, is to support the Iowa Core.
- will continue to add new content to the other online video streaming service available to schools—Learn 360, http://www.learn360.com. For example all the new science titles from Visual Learning and eBioMedia will be available through Learn 360.
DE Streaming Terms of Service After June 30, 2011
According to the DE Streaming terms of service, after June 30, 2011 users will no longer be authorized to view, save, store, display or use in any manner, any of the Discovery Education content. As agreed upon in the Iowa statewide contract for the subscription, once the subscription expires, schools may not access or view any of the content thereafter, wherever it may be located, and have committed to make sure that any and all copies or materials that you, or any students, teachers or administrators, have downloaded or saved from Discovery Education are completely erased, deleted or destroyed from all school computers, servers, flash drives, DVDs and other portable storage devices. This includes downloaded videos, images, audio files, lesson plans or presentations from the Discovery Educator Network Resource library.
Premiere of DE E-Newsletter, “Each and Every Child”
Click here for the new monthly e-newsletter from the Iowa DE’s Bureau of Student and Family Support Services. The goal of the e-newsletter is to better enhance the engagement of the parents with whom you work. It is designed to be a springboard for conversation between you and the parents, while working to maximize the teamwork that’s so very necessary to achieve best results for the students. Please forward this to the parents you serve, as well as other educators. You can point out specific articles or points of interest as a means of continuing the conversation with the parents over the school year, rather than just when you meet to discuss specifics of an IEP. Education, as you know, is a year-round proposition. Your comments are most welcome and can be sent to Jim Flansburg at Jim.flansburg@iowa.gov.
2011 Real World Externships for Secondary Math Teachers
Iowa in the 21st Century must be a place where schools, businesses and universities work together to educate our citizenry in mathematics and science education. The Iowa Mathematics & Science Education Partnership (IMSEP) has a program for doing just that: externships for secondary teachers of mathematics and science.
The benefits to teachers include the chance to modernize the curriculum and build in real-world lessons, build relationships with in-town partners, inspire students into mathematics and science fields, enjoy doing something different in the summer and earn two graduate credits. Please distribute the information below to your math teachers.
Description
Project Title: Daily Raw Lumber Grade Mix Optimization Tool
Project Background: The Pella Lumber Plant is the manufacturing facility that processes all of Pella’s inbound Raw Lumber. The goal of the plant is to maximize the fiber recovery of inbound material while meeting all internal customer orders in a timely manner. The plant also attempts to do this with the lowest inbound material cost and lowest labor cost to achieve the highest profit margin.
Pella also purchases lumber from 10-15 sawmills. Each of these sawmills operates differently and has a different log they process; hence each supplier’s raw lumber will yield differently. Each grade of lumber processes at different speeds and outputs through the plant.
Project Scope: Develop a tool that the plant can use daily to determine the optimal grade mix of lumber by supplier to run to match a given set of orders at the lowest possible cost. This tool could be created in excel or with other software. The tool would likely have to use some type of Linear Programming or Goal Programming function. How the data we have collected is utilized would also have to be determined, but at this point we envision the need to use some type of regression analysis to get the most of the data and the tool. Although we have developed some possible constraints – we will have to add some more constraints to make it more realistic.
Six weeks, $150 per day = $4,500. Two graduate credits.
Visit: http://www.iowamathscience.org/externships/
Questions: Jeff Weld, director: jeff.weld@uni.edu
Apply: http://www.iowamathscience.org/externships/Teacher_App.pdf
The dissemination of information from external organizations by Heartland AEA does not infer sponsorship or endorsement of the information. It is being passed on to our stakeholders for its educational value.
The benefits to teachers include the chance to modernize the curriculum and build in real-world lessons, build relationships with in-town partners, inspire students into mathematics and science fields, enjoy doing something different in the summer and earn two graduate credits. Please distribute the information below to your math teachers.
Description
Project Title: Daily Raw Lumber Grade Mix Optimization Tool
Project Background: The Pella Lumber Plant is the manufacturing facility that processes all of Pella’s inbound Raw Lumber. The goal of the plant is to maximize the fiber recovery of inbound material while meeting all internal customer orders in a timely manner. The plant also attempts to do this with the lowest inbound material cost and lowest labor cost to achieve the highest profit margin.
Pella also purchases lumber from 10-15 sawmills. Each of these sawmills operates differently and has a different log they process; hence each supplier’s raw lumber will yield differently. Each grade of lumber processes at different speeds and outputs through the plant.
Project Scope: Develop a tool that the plant can use daily to determine the optimal grade mix of lumber by supplier to run to match a given set of orders at the lowest possible cost. This tool could be created in excel or with other software. The tool would likely have to use some type of Linear Programming or Goal Programming function. How the data we have collected is utilized would also have to be determined, but at this point we envision the need to use some type of regression analysis to get the most of the data and the tool. Although we have developed some possible constraints – we will have to add some more constraints to make it more realistic.
Six weeks, $150 per day = $4,500. Two graduate credits.
Visit: http://www.iowamathscience.org/externships/
Questions: Jeff Weld, director: jeff.weld@uni.edu
Apply: http://www.iowamathscience.org/externships/Teacher_App.pdf
The dissemination of information from external organizations by Heartland AEA does not infer sponsorship or endorsement of the information. It is being passed on to our stakeholders for its educational value.
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