District Administrators Survey to launch May 4

Heartland AEA will be collecting data from district administrators to assist in agency planning and program improvement using an online survey this year. An invitation email will be sent to each school/district administrator in the Heartland area on Tuesday, May 4, 2010. We send this survey each spring to school administrators to evaluate Heartland's successes and areas for improvement. Thank you in advance for your participation in our continuous improvement efforts.

Iowa Core Effective Instruction Summer Institute

There are still openings to attend the June 15-17 Effective Instruction Institute which will be held at Johnston High School. You can download a flyer on the conference here. The institute will focus on the five characteristics of effective instruction with featured presentations by the following:

• Sarah Brown Wessling, recently named National Teacher of the Year by President Obama
• Troyce Fisher, Director of a Leadership Grant at School Administrators of Iowa (Wallace Foundation)
• Margaret Heritage, Assistant Director for Professional Development at the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards and Student Testing (CRESST) at UCLA
• Bridgette Wagoner, Director of Price Lab School at UNI

To register, go to the Professional development course catalog on the Heartland AEA website at https://prodev.aea11.k12.ia.us/4DCGI/YYYYYYYYYYYYYYSRCH.
Activity Number: IS013932311101

Site Visit Preparation for K-12 School Counseling Programs

Is your K-12 School Counseling Program ready for a site visit? Join Julie Melcher, School Improvement Consultant from the Department of Education, and Susen Schirmer of Heartland AEA for a morning workshop in preparing your K-12 School Counseling program for your DE Site Visit for 2010-11. The workshop will be held on September 1, 2010 in the Heartland AEA Johnston office.

To register, go to the Professional development course catalog on the Heartland AEA website at https://prodev.aea11.k12.ia.us/4DCGI/YYYYYYYYYYYYYYSRCH.
Activity Number: CN005292111101