Our Mission
To provide services and leadership, in partnership with families, schools and communities, that improve
the learning outcomes and well-being of all children and youth.
Our Goals
• Increase learning growth for students
• Decrease the gap in achievement
• Increase annual graduation rates
• Increase gateways to post-secondary success
District Administrators with ELLs: and your ELL Teams:
Please register, in the Heartland Professional catalog, and attend the Lau Plan Writing Workshop to be held on May 11 at Heartland AEA at 8:30 -11:30 a.m. in Rooms 107 A and B. The course number is ES009092111501.
Participants will take away clear guidance and a checklist to ensure that their district Lau Plan is approved following the 2015 upload.
Your ESL/Diversity Consultants Janet Hiatt and Stephaney Jones-Vo look forward to seeing you there!
For the past several years, DMACC Libraries have sponsored the One Book One College One Community program. The idea is to use a single, common book in DMACC classrooms to foster opportunities for creativity, academic dialogue, critical thinking and fellowship. For the 2015-16 school year, they have selected title Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. The author will be at the Ankeny and Boone campuses on October 22, 2015 for open presentations about her book.
This year, they’d like to invite high schools in the surrounding DMACC communities (i.e. high schools in the Heartland AEA area) the opportunity to participate as well, so as to expand on the notion of “community” in the program. DMACC Libraries have 100 copies of the book that they will give away to area high school classes that would like to use the book as part of the curriculum. There is no cost to participate and the books are given to the school to keep.
Please feel free to forward this email to a teacher(s) in your high school who might be interested. Any high school course is eligible to apply. (DMACC dual-credit course are already eligible for this program.) There is a very short application process with a deadline of May 15, 2015. More information on this short application is available here.
Visit the DMACC site to learn more about the One Book One College One Community program.
