ELPA21 Dynamic Screener Webinar to be Held on May 1

Jennifer Riedemann, Consultant for Student Assessment, will be facilitating a webinar on May 1 from 3:30 - 4:15 p.m. to introduce the ELPA21 Dynamic Screener. Here is a link to additional information about the webinar.

ESOL Advisory Meeting is Postponed Until May 17

The Dynamic Screener webinar on May 1 is scheduled at the same time as the final ESOL Advisory for the year. To allow educators of English learners (ELs) to attend the live webinar, the ESOL Advisory Meeting is postponed until May 17, 2018 from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. in Room 123 at Heartland AEA in Johnston. At that time, Title III mini-grant recipients will be presenting short oral summaries to explain how purchased materials were utilized to develop language while providing ELs access to the CORE and/or to increase EL parent/family involvement.

Peter DeWitt Will Lead an Iowa Evaluator License Renewal Course, Beginning June 28

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.

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

Questions
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.