Mark Your Calendar For This Important Statewide AEA Event: Legislative Education Advocacy Day, Feb. 1-2, 2017

School administrators from across Iowa will come together to network, learn the most up-to-date legislative insight and meet face-to-face with legislators at the Iowa Capitol, Feb. 1-2, 2017. Learn more about ESSA from Iowa Department of Education Director Dr. Ryan Wise as well as current education issues from Iowa education legislative liaisons, then, meet with your local legislators. For more information and to register, visit this site.

Keynoter Announced for Celebrating Iowa’s Success Conference

PRESS Senior Literacy Specialist for the Minnesota Center for Reading Research and educator Kathy Patton will keynote Celebrating Iowa’s Success Conference on Jan. 23, 2017, at the Iowa Events Center in Des Moines. In her keynote, Kathy will share effective components of an intervention and essential elements needed for student growth.

Joining Kathy in the program is Scott Slechta, 2016 Iowa Teacher of the Year, who will discuss the role of a teacher as a reading teacher in all disciplines; how educators teach reading skills for both informational text and literary text, and how the goal as teachers is to instill the love of reading for information and for entertainment.

Celebrating Iowa’s Success!
Date: Jan. 23, 2017
Time: 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Location: Iowa Events Center, 730 Third Street, Des Moines
Register: Register at this link by Jan. 9, 2017
Target audience: District / Building Administrators, Classroom Teacher Reading, Reading Support Teacher, Instructional Coach

For more information, contact Mary Jane Stites or Mark Crady, Coordinators of C4K Training Cadre, at mstites@heartlandaea.org or mcrady@heartlandaea.org.

DMACC Ames Center Surplus

DMACC Ames Center has the following surplus items available. If interested, contact Julie Klocke with DMACC Purchasing at jaklocke1@dmacc.edu.

190 black stackable chairs