Starting this summer, the Agency will begin the transition from Mandt to Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI) for management training of disruptive behaviors. The decision was based on several factors including:
- High district interest in training for de-escalation, safety and restraint
- Increasingly tight resources for districts which impact sub time and travel
- Shifting AEA resources related to Mandt
Cindy Yelick, Executive Director of Instructional Services, talked with several school administrators about moving from Mandt to Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI). While there is an interest in CPI for multiple reasons, there is also concern about retraining district and school staff who have recently certified in Mandt. Below is what has been decided for this transition. The Agency will:
- Continue to offer Mandt recertification for the next few years, but will no longer bring on any new cohorts
- Begin to offer CPI as an alternative
- Train at least one AEA staff member per region to be a CPI trainer
- Develop a course around de-escalation strategies
If you have questions about this transition and CPI training, please contact your regional director or Cindy Yelick at cyelick@aea11.k12.ia.us or (515) 270-9030.
We have had some questions from districts about ordering DIBELS materials for next year. We sent out the DIBELS order form to those who were identified as facilitating the assessments. For your reference, click here for the order form. Completed forms should be sent to Rick Bingaman at printcenter@aea11.k12.ia.us or send it to the Print Center at the Johnston Regional Education Center.
We are very excited to announce new agency website which will go live in early June. Based on customer survey feedback and our usage data, the Agency decided to build a new website. Our communications department has done their best to make the new site more user-friendly with improved navigation and updated information. We appreciate your patience as we continue to add content in our new site throughout the summer.
With this new website, we will also get a new URL, www.heartlandaea.org. Users who try to access our old site (www.aea11.k12.ia.us) will be redirected to our new front page. If your district/school links to our website, thank you for your support and please redirect your link to www.heartlandaea.org before school starts in the fall.
We are also excited to announce that our staff email will also change over the summer to end with "@heartlandaea.org." Our current email addresses will continue to work for another year. We will have more information in the fall about the impact of our email changes for area schools.
We are committed to excellent service and believe our new website will help keep you aware of our services and activities. Please contact the Heartland AEA Communications Department at comms@aea11.k12.ia.us if you have any questions about the new website or agency emails.
