Beginning Next Month: Jim Knight Coaching Learning Opportunities

Beginning in June and over the next year, the statewide AEA system is offering multiple training opportunities across Iowa, focusing on Jim Knight's Instructional Coaching Model. Topics include:

• Instructional Coaching Seminar
• High Impact Instruction
• Focus on Teaching, Using Video to Gather Data

The dates, times and locations for these trainings can be found in this flyer.

"Impacting Literacy Leadership for Administrators" Professional Learning Sessions Coming Soon

Iowa administrators and teacher leaders are invited to three professional learning events on the components and interconnectedness of Chapter 62/Early Literacy Initiative, Teacher Leadership Compensation, Multi-Tiered Systems of Support, Differentiated Accountability, Collaborating for Kids and Standards and Curriculum.

Impacting Literacy Leadership - Making the Connections
This one-day training provides an overview of the components of Multi Tiered Systems of Support while connecting this learning to Early Literacy Implementation and Differentiated Accountability. Members from the Iowa Department of Education and state AEAs will lead collaborative learning around the continuous improvement tools that have been developed through the Collaborating for Iowa's Kids (C4K) and the Teacher Leadership Structure. Action planning for implementation will also be integrated throughout the day so administrators can think about how to leverage their teacher leader resources back in their buildings.

Date: June 20, 2016
Time: 9:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Location: Iowa Events Center, 730 Third Street, Des Moines
Cost: $25
Register by June 15
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Tools to Support MTSS Implementation
Save the date for this follow-up event to the June training. Administrators AND their teachers/teacher leaders and training cadre are invited.

Date: Aug. 1, 2016
Location: Iowa Events Center, 730 Third Street, Des Moines
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Keeping School Improvement Practical, Reasonable, and Doable for PK - 6 Leadership Teams

PreK - 6 Elementary Building Leadership Teams across Heartland AEA will come together to deepen their understanding in:

• Effective leadership team traits
• The interconnectedness of Chapter 62/Early Literacy Initiative, Teacher Leadership Compensation (TLC), Multi-Tiered Systems of Support, Differentiated Accountability, Collaborating for Kids (C4K) and Standards and Curriculum
• Building consensus with staff and constituents and the use of C4K school improvement tools

This opportunity will assist teams in moving forward from the summer TLC-C4K (June 20 and Aug. 1, 2016), however attendance at those leadership sessions is not required for this day.

Date: Sept. 29, 2016
Time: 8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Location: Heartland AEA Regional Education Center, 6500 Corporate Drive, Johnston
Register here. There is no cost to attend.

Advanced Cognitive Coaching Training Comes to Iowa

Heartland AEA will be hosting Advanced Cognitive Coaching this summer. This is a unique opportunity to have this workshop offered in Iowa as the training typically takes place in Lake Tahoe or New York at a much higher cost. You’ll want to make every attempt to participate!

Carolee Hayes, one of the co-directors of Thinking Collaborative will lead the two-part training for those who have completed the eight-day foundation seminar and would like to achieve expert proficiency in Cognitive CoachingSM or for those who are starting the path to become an in-district trainer.

Participants will:

• Refine and extend core coaching capabilities and skills
• Develop skills with advanced forms of paraphrasing, probing for specificity and inquiring to mediate the thinking of others
• Expand the possibilities of and applications for our identities as mediators
• Frame personal coaching mastery as a journey, not a destination

Advanced Cognitive Coaching - Part I
Date: July 25-27, 2016
Location: Heartland AEA Regional Education Center, 6500 Corporate Drive, Johnston, IA
Time: 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Register here

Advanced Cognitive Coaching - Part II
Date: Aug. 1-3, 2016
Location: Heartland AEA Regional Education Center, 6500 Corporate Drive, Johnston, IA
Time: 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Register here

Registration is limited to 30 people because of the individual, targeted feedback offered.