Heartland AEA is Bringing Back Peter Dewitt to Lead an Iowa Evaluator License Renewal Course

Heartland AEA is pleased to once again offer an additional course option for administrators and/or evaluators who want to renew their evaluator license. The Collaborative Leadership Institute is a two credit hour course that will be held on June 28-29, Oct. 12 and Dec. 13, 2018 at Heartland AEA in Adel.

Heartland AEA and Corwin partnered in the design of the Evaluator Approval Training pilot last year with the assistance of Peter Dewitt, Ed.D., and his work on Collaborative Leadership, which is grounded in the Visible Learning research of education expert John Hattie, on the most influential and impactful leadership practices shown to accelerate student learning.

In the Institute, Dr. Dewitt will unpack six leadership factors of Collaborative Leadership, painting a powerful scheme to meet stakeholders where they are, motivate stakeholders to strive for improvement and model how to do it. Participants will learn:

• The definition and complexities of collaborative leadership
• The 6 influences from Hattie’s research where they should focus
• How to redesign structures they have in place to help them have deeper and more impactful conversations with teachers, students and parents
• How to increase their ability to identify effective strategies for improvement
• How to build consistency in providing feedback to teachers based on a common set of agreed upon effective components of teaching
• Several activities to use with their staff to elicit the teachers’ voice and input into coaching, thus increasing teachers’ investment
• A deeper understanding of the Claims, Evidence, Impact, Judgment model for providing feedback to teachers
• To share best practices and be a resource

Registration
Register at this link
The course is open to anyone in Iowa. Seating is limited to 50 people.

For any other questions, contact Jim Verlengia, Ed.D., Director of Leadership Supports with Heartland AEA at jverlengia@heartlandaea.org or (515) 270-0405 ext. 14388.

Public Input Sought on Computer Science Standards

Iowa Department of Education Director Ryan Wise announced he’s seeking public input on computer science standards that are under consideration in Iowa. Wise announced public forums throughout the state on April 10 and April 12, as well as an online survey open through April 13, following a state team’s recommendation to get feedback on the CSTA K-12 Computer Science Standards. These standards were developed by the Computer Science Teachers Association.

Feedback from the public forums and online survey will be used to provide guidance to the Computer Science Standards Review Team, which is expected to submit a final recommendation to the State Board of Education in June. If adopted, computer science standards will be optional for school districts.

Feedback at the April 10 and April 12 public forums can be provided either in person or remotely from satellite centers (through video conferencing). For more details, visit the Iowa Department of Education website.

April 2018 Each and Every Child Newsletter

Welcome to April's issue of Each and Every Child. Have you signed up for this summer's Special Education Symposium? It's going to be a good one. Register today.