“Speaking for All Learners” will be held on June 12-13, 2018 at North Polk High School. PK-12 educators will have the opportunity to 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.
Conference topics include:
- Strategies for addressing barriers to academic and language learning for English Learners in the classroom
- Best practices for supporting early childhood language acquisition for preschool English Learners
- Instructional leadership strategies for English language learning programs
- Connecting and collaborating with other educators responsible for the success of English Learners
- And many more learning opportunities and topics from experts in educating English Learners!
Featured Speakers
Ayanna Cooper, Ed.D
ELL specialist with extensive and diverse experience teaching educators how to enhance instruction for culturally and linguistically diverse learners.
David Edward Garcia
Grew up on the Mexican border in Texas, two worlds-linguistically and culturally. Successful speaker of five languages, teacher, entrepreneur, comedian.
Anita Pandey, Ph.D.Professor of Linguistics and Coordinator of Professional Development and Communication at Morgan State University in Baltimore.
Ryan Wise, Ed.D.
Director of the Iowa Department of education
Plus, our amazing local experts and students!
Information and Registration
Learn more at the conference website and register at this link by June 5.
Incentive
Heartland AEA Title III will refund the cost of registration ($150), plus provide an honorarium of $200 to off-contract public and non-public educators for full attendance and participation. This funding is not available to public or non-public districts served by the Des Moines Public Schools.
Please share this opportunity with the school-based mental health practitioners who are working in your buildings, in order to support greater understanding, collaboration and alignment between educational services and therapy.
Heartland AEA is excited to offer a FREE CEU course for School-Based Mental Health Providers around ABA and the link to school based services. The course focuses on Applied Behavioral Analysis core concepts and key strategies used in schools and the connection to students who may also have school based therapy services.
CEU certificates will be issued at the end of the course for 3.0 CEUs for LISW, LMSW, LMFT and LMHC.
Target audiences include School-Based Mental Health providers, therapists, Social Workers and child/adolescent mental health providers.
Applied Behavior Analysis and School-Based Mental Health Services
June 2, 2018
8:30 - 11:30 a.m.
Heartland AEA, Johnston Regional Education Center, 6500 Corporate Drive, Johnston
Registration
Register at this link
Carol Commodore, Ed.D. will address key items that speak to the need for a full, robust systems approach to implementing standards-based learning, including grading and reporting. She will lead learning on possible components such as having a guiding team or task force of some kind, mapping out a communication plan, and building consensus.
Strand of Standards-Based Learning Framework: Internal/External Capacity Building
Date: June 14, 2018
Time: 8:30 a.m.- 4:00 p.m.
Location: FFA Enrichment Center, 1055 SW Prairie Trail Pkwy, Ankeny, IA
Registration
Registration fee $60
Register at this link
Target Audience
District Leaders, Teachers, Building Leadership Teams, Instructional Coaches
Presenter
Dr. Carol Commodore is the founding member of Leadership, Learning and Assessment, LLC. Carol is also one of the founding members of the Wisconsin Assessment Consortium and an independent consultant with Pearson's Assessment Training Institute of Portland, Oregon. She was a classroom teacher for over 20 years and was a district-level administrator for eleven years. Carol’s research interests focus on the impact of assessment and instruction on learners and their learning. She strives to provide meaningful ways to assist educators in their reflective practice and in the acquisition of tools that will bring insight and joy to them and their students in the educational process.
Save the Dates!
For these additional Heartland AEA-hosted Standards-Based Learning Opportunities:
Strand of SBL Framework: Belief System and Implementation Considerations
Presenter: Tom Schimmer, Sept. 27, 2018
Strand of SBL Framework: Standards-Based Learning
Presenter: Jan Chappuis, Nov. 29, 2018
Strand of SBL Framework: Learning Targets, Scales & Rubrics
Presenter: Tammy Heflebower, Ed.D., Feb. 28, 2019
Strand of SBL Framework: TBD
Presenter: Myron Dueck, June 11, 2019
