*Share this with all of your full-time employees*
Heartland AEA is partnering with an advisory company, IS Loan Solutions, to help school employees improve their student loan situations and overall financial well-being. All of your full-time district employees (regardless of position) with student loans are encouraged to find out if this voluntary benefit can help them. They may qualify for loan forgiveness and refinancing to help lower or even eliminate loan payments. IS Loan Solutions has helped others reduce their monthly payments on average by 81%.
Click this link https://HeartlandAEA.myisls.com/register and enter registration code AEA11 for more information.
Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) may be able to:
- Immediately lower monthly student loan payment
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- Reduce student loan obligation
- Significantly lower costs to earn additional degrees
PSLF also provides a personalized 10-year loan forgiveness plan outlining projected tax-free savings.
Contact IS Loan Solutions at (866) 831-5564 or visit isloansolutions.com for more information and success stories.
If you registered with IS Loan Solutions in the past and were told you would not benefit from PSLF, login to your MyISLS portal and you will be directed to the refinancing option.
Don’t miss out on the 13th Annual Our Kids Summer Institute for educators and administrators of English Learners, June 13-14, 2017 at Waukee High School in Waukee. Network with other educational professionals, discover new strategies for working with English language learners in Iowa and meet national and local experts to enrich practices for increasing EL achievement. Sessions include:
- Serving English Learners with Disabilities
- Newcomer Considerations
- Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices
- ELs and Literacy Support
- Enhancing EL Instruction through Home Language Connections
- High Yield Strategies for ELs
- Successful District Programs
- First-person student voices
Featured speakers include:
- Trudy Arriaga, Ed.D. - Administrator leader and advocate for ELs, first female superintendent of Ventura Unified School District where she began as a bilingual paraeducator
- Fern Westernoff, Ph.D. - Speech language pathologist who earned her doctorate in ELL and merged two areas of expertise to inform her work in Toronto, the world’s largest K-12 EL population
- Amy Hewett-Olatunde, Ed.D. - Minnesota’s 2015 Teacher of the Year
- Major Sean Quinlan - Retired Major United States Marine Corp, ROTC Instructor at Des Moines’ North High School and former football coach featured with his team on ESPN during the 2017 Super Bowl and
- Our amazing students!
Registration is $150 and includes lunch, snacks, Go To Strategies, OELA Newcomer Toolkit and OELA English Learner Toolkit. Seating is limited to the first 500 registrants on a first-come, first-served basis. Register by June 4 at this link: https://goo.gl/2pXC0m
Note: Districts implementing Corrective Action Plans (CAP) for English Learners are required to send a team in accordance with the Technical Assistance Requirement under Title III. Contact your AEA Title III Consultant for additional information and financial support.
With another successful ELPA21 assessment administration in the books, districts are reminded to return all testing materials as noted in the training and in the original shipment. Return all used and unused paper and pencil materials (e.g. Kindergarten and 1st grade online writing supplements, paper test booklets, braille kits) using the prepaid return shipping label for return to Measurement Inc. as soon as possible. If you have any questions, contact the Iowa Department of Education Help Desk at iowaelpa21helpdesk@air.org or (855) 873-5710.
