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
Please take a minute to offer your feedback about the Heartland AEA website. Your responses will help us improve your site visit experience. Please respond by Nov. 26. Thank you for your participation!
Click this link to take the survey: Heartland AEA Website Survey
Please note the following schedule as you plan to place orders through Creative Services and our library and use our van mail.
Due to the Thanksgiving holiday, all Heartland AEA offices will be closed Nov. 22 and 23. Our van delivery schedule will be as follows:
- Regular van delivery: Nov. 19 - 20
- No van delivery: Nov. 21 - 23
- Regular delivery resumes: Nov. 26
Due to winter break, all Heartland AEA offices will be closed to the public Dec. 25, 2018 through Jan. 1, 2019.
- Regular van delivery: Dec. 17 - 21
- No van delivery: Dec. 24 - Jan. 1
- Regular van delivery resumes: Jan. 2
Iowa’s AEAs will host the Legislative Advocacy Event on Feb. 4-5, 2019 at Prairie Meadows. This event will take the place of the regularly scheduled Heartland Administrators’ Association (HAA) February meeting.
This year’s event begins with an update from members of the education lobby and preparation for the morning conversations with legislators. We will meet at the capitol the next morning to talk with legislators. We all know this will be a challenging session for state funding. Please make it a priority to join us in Des Moines. Making your voice heard has never been more important. Registration and more details available at: https://www.smore.com/h04a9.
Nov. 29, 2018
8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
FFA Enrichment Center, 1055 SW Prairie Trail Parkway, Ankeny
Register at this link
Teachers, curriculum directors and instructional coaches will have the opportunity to learn from Jan Chappuis, one of the nation’s leaders in Standards-based Learning. Jan’s expertise could help in all areas of instruction from formative assessment instruction to standards based practices. In this session, Jan will:
- Focus on all aspects of curriculum: the intended, the enacted, and the assessed
- Address the work of identifying and unpacking standards of learning to create learning targets.
- Help teachers know how to identify those learning targets into categories such as knowledge, reasoning, skills or products
- Lead learning on what a balanced assessment system looks like, and what it takes to create that system within the instructional cycle
- Address the need to plan for accommodations and modifications for exceptional learners such as special education students, ELL and gifted/advanced learners
