Thursday, May 31, 2018

What Are Key Items Needed for Standards-Based Learning Implementation? Find Out on June 14!

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

Steve Constantino Returns to Iowa to Present “Engaging Every Family to Support Student Achievement”

Are your students’ families really involved in their education? At this FREE event on June 18, participants will will learn the importance of family engagement in the academic lives and success of learners and discover how to create a culture that is conducive to engaging every family in the school and classroom.

Engaging Every Family to Support Student Achievement
June 18, 2018
8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Johnston Middle School Auditorium
6501 NW 62nd Ave., Johnston, IA

Register at this link by June 8

For more information, contact Terry Mendell, Heartland AEA Family & Educator Lead Coordinator, at (515) 270-0405 ext. 17135 or tmendell@heartlandaea.org.

Invited Audience: school administrators, teacher leaders, general and special education teachers

Presenter: Steve Constantino, Ed.D.
As a high school principal in 1995, Steve Constantino, Ed.D. became aware of research about the effects of family engagement on student learning and was convinced that this was the missing ingredient in helping all children learn. Using his high school as a laboratory, Dr. Constantino began to read more and more research and more importantly, figure out ways to apply it to his school.

Steve’s work has gained national prominence as he’s traveled the United States speaking and working with all types of educators, school board members and businesses to promote sound practices in family engagement that result in increased academic achievement for all students.

Today, he is the Acting State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Commonwealth of Virginia and is an adjunct professor at the School of Education, College of William and Mary where he teaches courses in the Executive Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership.

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.