Heartland AEA will be offering a professional learning opportunity focused on early elementary reading as it pertains to Chapter 62 requirements. These sessions will be held Sept. 11-25, 2014 at various locations across the Heartland AEA region. The targeted audience includes school administrators, curriculum coordinators, coaches and student services coordinators. These sessions will include presentation of most recent information, review of new guidance documents and discussion of current questions and sharing processes being used by participants to meet Chapter 62 requirements. Areas of coverage include:
- What does “at risk of substantial deficiency” mean and what is required?
- What does “substantially deficient” mean and what is required?
- Discussion of the relationship between substantially deficient and suspicion of a disability.
- Parent notification.
- Progress monitoring and monitoring requirements.
- Data-based decisions based on monitoring data.
- Considerations around implementation fidelity.
These meetings are sponsored by Heartland AEA and will be facilitated by Randy Allison and Martha Condon.
Here is the registration information.
The Iowa Department of Education has issued the following guidance document about Iowa’s Early Literacy Alternate Assessments.
The state of Iowa has accepted an invitation to participate in the U.S. Senate Youth Program (USSYP), sponsored by the William Randolph Heart Foundation. The program is designed to give young Americans a working knowledge of American political life.
Each year two Iowa students have the opportunity to spend a week in Washington, D.C. The William Randolph Heart Foundation pays all expenses. In addition, the two Iowa high school representatives each receive a $5,000 scholarship.
Selection of the two Iowa high school representatives is based on the outstanding ability and demonstrated leadership qualities of elected junior and senior high school student officers for the 2014-15 school year.
Each high school may nominate up to three students. Student application materials are available on the Iowa Department of Education U.S. Senate Youth Program webpage.
Please submit the completed applications to Linda Hoobin, Heartland AEA USSYP contact, at the Johnston AEA Regional Education Center, 6500 Corporate Drive, Johnston, AIA by 4:00 p.m. on October 3, 2014. Nominees will take a qualifying examination on October 15, 2014 in Conference Room 125 at the Johnston AEA REC on the U.S. Constitution and government. The award recipients will be announced in December.
Contact your AEA USSYP contact, Linda Hoobin (lhoobin@heartlandaea.org) or Stephanie Rosenberg Wager (stefanie.wager@iowa.gov) at the Iowa Department of Education for information.
