Our Mission
To improve the learning outcomes and well-being of all children and youth by providing services and leadership in partnership with families, schools and communities.
Our Goals
- Increase learning growth for students
- Decrease the gap in achievement
- Increase annual graduation rates
- Increase gateways to post-secondary success
The Oct. 3 HAA meeting will be conducted over Zoom from Noon – 1 p.m.
There will be no formal HAA meeting on Oct. 3, due to the Collaborative Leadership Training with Peter Dewitt. (This is Part III in a series of training that began last year and will wrap up this fall. Pre-registration was required, as this is a four-part series for credit.)
A Zoom meeting will be held instead, from Noon – 1 p.m., with limited topics and updates. Look for an agenda within the next week.
Heartland Administrators' Association (HAA)
Oct. 3, 2017
Zoom meeting only from Noon – 1 p.m.
Click on this Zoom link to join the meeting
Each of Iowa’s Area Education Agencies (AEA) and the Iowa Department of Education will be delivering statewide professional development on Iowa’s new social studies standards. The sessions will also build upon the Building Literacy in Social Studies workshops offered in the past.
In this two-day workshop, participants will learn about the vision behind Iowa’s new social studies standards as well as the organization, content and rigor expected by the standards. The workshop will focus on planning for an inquiry-based classroom and is organized around the stages of planning for inquiry, including:
- Exploring standards
- Developing questions
- Gathering sources
- Communicating conclusions
Participants will have time to begin initial conversations about what year one of the three-year implementation of the standards should look like in their districts and classrooms. To learn more and register for a workshop, click on this link for a document of the workshop schedule.
