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
Please note the following schedule as you plan to place orders through Creative Services and our library and use our van mail. Due to winter break, all Heartland AEA offices will be closed to the public Dec. 24, 2018 through Jan. 1, 2019.
Iowa’s AEAs are conducting a customer surveyof educators with the goal of better understanding stakeholder awareness of and satisfaction with AEA services. The deadline to complete the survey has been extended until Dec. 21. Please encourage educators in your districts to participate in this survey, as feedback is critical to ensuring Iowa’s AEAs continue to provide quality services to local schools. Take the survey before Dec. 14: https://bit.ly/2RVBUWx Iowa's AEAs have partnered with Hanover Research to administer and analyze this survey. Hanover Research is an independent market research firm based in Washington, D.C., and is in no way affiliated with any other entity or organization. Your responses are completely anonymous and will be kept strictly confidential, so please be as open and honest as possible. The survey should take approximately 15 min. to complete.
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. Registration and more details available at: https://www.smore.com/h04a9. Please take a few minutes to complete this survey by Jan. 18. Information from this survey will be used to create talking points for our time with legislators.
EdCamp-style workshops are being held throughout the 2018-19 school year to provide additional learning, collaboration and conversation for those interested in Standards-Based Learning (SBL) Including Grading and Reporting. The workshops coincide with specific strands of the Standards-Based Learning Framework developed by Heartland AEA. You can attend whatever sessions are of interest to you; you do not need to attend all of them. Come learn with us! Standards-Based Learning Framework Fridays Next Session: Jan. 4 12:30 - 3:30 p.m. Visit our website to learn more and register Mark your calendars for the 2019 Framework Fridays:
Teachers, curriculum directors, instructional coaches and other educators are invited to learn more about Standards-based Learning (SBL) Targets, Scales and Rubrics from Tammy Heflebower, Ed.D. In this session, Dr. Heflebower will focus primarily on the creation of proficiency scales and their place in the broader, upfront work of deconstructing standards and the understanding and development of aligned assessments. She will speak of how proficiency scales fit into the instructional cycle and into the learning partnership between teacher and students. The work of creating proficiency scales is a seismic shift from our past practices of using a 100-point grading scale which converts points given to percentages. For more information, contact Susie Bentley, Heartland AEA Regional Director, at sbentley@heartlandaea.org or (515) 270-9030 Ext. 18114. Strand of SBL Framework: Learning Targets, Scales & Rubrics Feb. 28, 2019 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. FFA Enrichment Center 1055 SW Prairie Trail Pkwy, Ankeny, IA Register at https://goo.gl/TzmVQt by Feb. 1, 2019
DMACC Urban Campus has 20 tables (18” x 5’) with a gray laminate top available for surplus. If your school is interested in these tables, contact Julie Klocke, DMACC Sourcing Specialist at jaklocke1@dmacc.edu.
