Thursday, July 2, 2020

AEA Purchasing is Here for All Your Purchasing Needs!

AEA Purchasing
is here for all your purchasing needs!

COVID-19 Supplies 
AEA Purchasing has a number of vendor partners who carry COVID-19 mitigation and cleaning supplies. To keep you up-to-date on the latest product availability and ordering details, be sure to reference our "COVID-19 Supplies" blog post. The post is updated on a regular basis as we receive updates from our vendor partners.   

Schoology puts collaboration at the heart of the learning experience with an easy-to-use LMS that connects the people, content, and systems that fuel education.    

SchoolMessenger provides K-12 communications and school safety solutions, from notifications and websites to complete digital safety and crisis response management.    

In addition to what is provided via Iowa AEA Online, Britannica Digital Learning is offering discounts on other supplemental products to help build your digital resource library.   

SHI provides information technology products, services and custom IT solutions to academic customers.   

Busch Systems offers a large, comprehensive variety of recycling and waste containers that can be used as they are, or ordered personalized, and customized. All of their products are proudly manufactured in North America with recycled content and are 100% recyclable. Waste solutions include anti-microbial and PPE disposal systems.   

Our Health program covers everything your school might need to keep your students, faculty and staff stay healthy as well supply your special education efforts.

Over 100 Ebooks Added to MackinVIA Collection in June

We added over 100 ebooks in June to MackinVIA!  

Preschool - 1st Grade 
About 70 are geared for preschool to 1st grade. You’ll find books on counting, letters and science. We think you’ll also be pleased to see titles about kindness, sharing, accepting differences and our big world. Here’s a title list that includes reading level, interest level and annotation that you are welcome to share with staff.  

Diversity & Anti-racism for Elementary & Secondary 
The remainder of the June ebook additions are fiction and non-fiction on diversity and anti-racism for elementary and secondary students. Take a look at titles, grade levels and annotations in this title list.  

Heartland AEA is also starting some new lists that we hope will help guide reading and learning regarding diversity and Black Lives Matter. Here's a sample: Picture Books   

Comprehensive Literacy for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities Course Begins Oct. 1

This course is based on the book, Comprehensive Literacy for All: Teaching Students with Significant Disabilities to Read and Write by Karen Erickson and David Koppenhaver. The class will consist of 15 interactive Zoom meetings, during which we will discuss chapters of the book and applications to classroom instruction. Participants will be expected to purchase the book and read chapters ahead of the meetings.  
  • Participants will learn routines to teach students with significant cognitive disabilities how to read and write. 
 
  • Participants will explore emergent literacy routines (shared reading, predictable chart writing, alphabet and phonological awareness, self-selected reading and independent writing) as well as conventional literacy routines (guided reading, writing, word work and self-selected reading). 
 
  • Participants will have the opportunity to apply the strategies in their own classrooms and share/troubleshoot in a learning community.
 

Comprehensive Literacy for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities 
Oct. 1, 2020 - May 27, 2021 
Via Zoom 
Register at this link: https://bit.ly/2BaHscG  

Graduate credit is being offered for this course. Check with your partnering institution of higher education to be certain it will be accepted towards a master's degree or endorsement.