Reading Recovery is a highly effective short-term intervention of one-to-one instruction for the lowest-achieving first graders. Individual students receive a half-hour lesson each school day for 12 to 20 weeks with a specially trained Reading Recovery teacher.
Reading Recovery is not a packaged program for purchase. It is not scripted or based on a single-factor solution. Instead, Reading Recovery is an investment in professional development for teachers who then design individual lessons for the lowest literacy achievers.
Reading Recovery’s one-to-one instruction delivers measurable results in weeks not years. Click here to see the Heartland Reading Recovery Site Report.
For information on this shared-cost initiative click here.
To enroll a teacher in the Reading Recovery training, contact Sue Hayes at shayes@aea11.k12.ia.us by June 11, 2010.
Friday, April 16, 2010
Holocaust Workshop for Teachers
Click here for more information on a teacher workshop that explores the Holocaust with a special focus on liberation and aftermath, including the displaced persons camps, the creation of Israel and the Nuremberg Trials. Eyewitness accounts will bring the liberation of the camps alive and put a human face on the difficulty of life in the DP camps.
Following the workshop, participants are invited to engage in a week of primary research in the archives of the Eisenhower Presidential Library & Museum for the purpose of researching and developing a lesson plan or project, richly integrated with primary source material.
The workshop is presented by the Eisenhower Presidential Library & Museum, Abilene, Kansas and the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education, Overland Park, Kansas, in partnership with the Lowell Milken Center, Fort Scott, Kansas and the Harry S. Truman Library & Museum, Independence, Missouri.
Registration cost is $100. The deadline for enrollment is May 7, 2010. Enrollment is limited to the first 35 persons who apply. Up to six hours of graduate credit is available for participants who are interested.
Questions can be directed to Kim Barbieri at kim.barbieri@nara.gov.
Following the workshop, participants are invited to engage in a week of primary research in the archives of the Eisenhower Presidential Library & Museum for the purpose of researching and developing a lesson plan or project, richly integrated with primary source material.
The workshop is presented by the Eisenhower Presidential Library & Museum, Abilene, Kansas and the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education, Overland Park, Kansas, in partnership with the Lowell Milken Center, Fort Scott, Kansas and the Harry S. Truman Library & Museum, Independence, Missouri.
Registration cost is $100. The deadline for enrollment is May 7, 2010. Enrollment is limited to the first 35 persons who apply. Up to six hours of graduate credit is available for participants who are interested.
Questions can be directed to Kim Barbieri at kim.barbieri@nara.gov.
Friday, April 9, 2010
Requested Item: Your Assistance is Needed!
The Heartland AEA Communications Department is involved in a video project with the purpose of gathering Iowa high school student perspectives on education and would appreciate your assistance. This project includes the Wallace Foundation, Iowa Department of Education, Iowa State Education Association, Iowa Association of School Boards, School Administrators of Iowa and Iowa's Area Education Agencies. These videos will be used to help us in marketing efforts about Iowa's education, the Iowa Core and will provide insight from students' perspectives.
We'd like to capture students' answers on video to the following questions:
1. What do you want to be when you graduate? Where do you see yourself in five years?
2. What’s your favorite class and why? What makes school interesting for you and why?
3. What ways could you be “plugged-in” when you’re at school?
4. What one word describes your school experience?
Students will be asked to share their first name and grade level; they will not identify their last name. Interviews will be done at the school building; however, the name of the school building/district will not be identified.
Additional help we need from you:
1. Select 2-3 students to be interviewed. (This can be done whenever it's convenient and is least intrusive for their schedules. It should take less than 10 minutes per student interview.)
2. Have a parent of participating students sign a release form found here.
3. Let us conduct the interview between now and April 20.
If this is something your district could assist with, we'd be very grateful. All interested districts may contact the Heartland Communications Department at comms@aea11.k12.ia.us.
Thanks for your consideration!
We'd like to capture students' answers on video to the following questions:
1. What do you want to be when you graduate? Where do you see yourself in five years?
2. What’s your favorite class and why? What makes school interesting for you and why?
3. What ways could you be “plugged-in” when you’re at school?
4. What one word describes your school experience?
Students will be asked to share their first name and grade level; they will not identify their last name. Interviews will be done at the school building; however, the name of the school building/district will not be identified.
Additional help we need from you:
1. Select 2-3 students to be interviewed. (This can be done whenever it's convenient and is least intrusive for their schedules. It should take less than 10 minutes per student interview.)
2. Have a parent of participating students sign a release form found here.
3. Let us conduct the interview between now and April 20.
If this is something your district could assist with, we'd be very grateful. All interested districts may contact the Heartland Communications Department at comms@aea11.k12.ia.us.
Thanks for your consideration!
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