The annual AIW Mid-Year Regional Conference for Heartland schools was held on February 8, 2013 in the Gilbert School District. AIW coaches Becca Lindahl, Teresa Bellinghausen, Mary Schmidt, Sue Ford, Linda Moehring and Julie Hukee planned the Mid-Year. They collaborated with Gilbert curriculum director, Hope Bossard, and others.
This year’s Heartland AIW Mid-Year had the format of a large-organization conference: breakouts all day long from which participants could pre-select, with an ongoing theme of making connections between the work of AIW and the work of various initiatives going on in schools across the state. Some initiatives included STEM, CGI, PLCs, RtI, the Iowa Core (both Math and English Language Arts & Literacy), concept-based learning, online resources, transformational technology, Socratic seminar, teaching for in-depth learning using technology, unit planning, substantive conversation and 6+1 Traits of Writing. There were also breakouts designed for administrators as well as scoring sessions. A highlight of the conference was a keynote address presented by Sarah Brown Wessling, current ELA teacher at Johnston High School and 2010 National Teacher of the Year, entitled, “The Intellectual Work of Authenticity.”
Over 300 AIW educators in the Heartland area attended the Mid-Year, a growth of about 100% over the past two years. The AIW coaches of Heartland welcome your questions or comments on anything dealing with the work of AIW. Please direct your feedback to an AIW team member listed below.
Becca Lindahl, blindahl@aea11.k12.ia.us
Teresa Bellinghausen, tbellinghausen@aea11.k12.ia.us
Mary Schmidt, mschmidt@aea11.k12.ia.us
Sue Ford, sford@aea11.k12.ia.us
Linda Moehring, lmoehring@aea11.k12.ia.us
Julie Hukee, jhukee@aea11.k12.ia.us
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