Nov. 2018 AEA Update for Superintendents

The Nov. 2018 Update for Superintendents from Iowa’s Area Education Agencies is now available. Topics include a customer satisfaction survey, Iowa Leadership Academy, IASB convention, Iowa Statewide Assessment of Student Progress and Iowa’s Digital Learning Plan.

Great Prairie AEA Invites You to Attend a Workshop Focused on Standards-based Assessment and Grading

Join us for a compelling look at what is and is not standards-based assessment and grading. Explore what it means to be truly evidence-based in assessing and reporting students' achievements regarding standards and learner outcomes. Learn the biggest concerns in grading today: averaging, zeroes on the 100-point scale, re-do's, percentages, grading scales, late work, valedictorian, marking homework, extra credit, gradebook and report card design, formative vs summative assessments, reporting behavior/effort/character elements, disaggregation, and much more.

Jan. 21, 2019
George Daily Auditorium in Oskaloosa

Register via the course catalog at GPAEA.org. Search Course #160673 GP-Standards-Based Assessment and Grading with Rick Wormeli.

Contact:
StephWilson, wilsons@oskycsd.org or (641) 673-8345
LonnaAnderson, lonna.anderson@gpaea.org or (319) 753-6561 ext.1208

Free Workshop on Behavioral Interventions in the Classroom Coming Nov. 6

If your district or building is looking at behavioral interventions in the classroom, this is a reminder that Shannon Suldo, Ph.D., will be here on Nov. 6 to deliver a free workshop to educators. If you have questions about student behavior outcomes, this session might be a support that could enhance energy in buildings with some new approaches to behavioral interventions in the classroom.

This workshop will also look at specific strategies at the Tier 1 level for promoting all children’s happiness through schoolwide and classwide strategies that target improvements in the factors correlated with children’s subjective well-being, including positive teacher-student relationships evident in schools with a healthy climate, as well as students’ personal levels of gratitude, optimism and use of character strengths. Participants will also become familiar with tools to assess positive psychology constructs, including how to incorporate such measures in universal screenings and progress monitoring.
Shannon Suldo, Ph.D., is a professor in the School Psychology Program at the University of South Florida. She is a Licensed Psychologist in the state of Florida and provides school-based mental health services to youth in the Tampa area.

Registration
Nov. 6, 2018
DMACC, Student Center, Bldg. 5, 2006 S. Ankeny Blvd., Ankeny
1:00-4:00 p.m.

Register at this link: https://goo.gl/Nvp8w6