Heartland AEA Vans Will Deliver to Your District During Summer Months

Heartland AEA vans will deliver twice a week to each district administration building and schools with summer school during the summer months, as well as once a week to public libraries. If you have summer school or professional development programs and you would like regularly scheduled deliveries to additional buildings, please email Colleen Miller at colleen_miller@heartlandaea.org. 

Schedule:

• Regular delivery ends June 19. Drivers will stop at each school even if school has ended.
• Summer delivery begins June 20.
• Last summer delivery is August 9.
• Regular fall delivery begins August 13.

We’re Giving Away Books! For FREE!

We're having a book give away at Heartland AEA this summer! You can choose from over 2,000 gently used professional and PK-12 books … for FREE! Our kickoff is June 18-19 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Heartland AEA, 6500 Corporate Drive in Johnston. After that, books will be available in our library at that same location all summer until they’re gone. So come see us and pick up some awesome books for your classroom.

Have You Registered for The 14th Annual Our Kids Summer Institute for Educators and Administrators of English Learners?

“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.