District Professional Learning: September 30th

We are looking forward to learning together this Friday, September 30th. The focus of the day will be around school improvement planning, the new IEP platform, and annual training sessions.  

--Please report to your building at 8:00 AM, as the first part of the morning will be spent working on school improvement plans. These plans further support our district improvement goals for the school year.

--At 10:00, all PK-12 special education teachers and nurses will report to the HS Multipurpose Room for part 2 of IEP development in ACHIEVE.

--Lunch is on your own.

--At 1:00, all staff will report to your buildings for the ACHIEVE Child Find training. This training is for ALL certified staff (Teachers, principals, counselors, nurses, etc.) This training will be delivered via Zoom, and the link may be found below.

This training is intended for all certified staff and administrators involved in MTSS. Please note that this training is intended to provide an overview of key concepts related to the Child Find Process in Iowa and additional tailored follow-up discussions at the building-level may be needed in the future.

This training is facilitated by Heartland AEA, and below is further information to support the learning.

To prepare for our time together, we have included links to materials needed for our time together. Please take time to review these documents prior to our time together, to determine if there are any documents you would prefer to have hard copies of. If there are documents you would like an electronic or hard copy of, please download or print before our time together. Electronic and hard copies will not be available at the training. We encourage everyone to have a copy of "ACHIEVE Child Find Note Catcher" readily available, as you will be utilizing this throughout the training to document your individual reflections.

Links:

ACHIEVE Child Find Note Catcher

Roles and Responsibilities with the Child Find Process

Slidedeck PDF for Participants

Iowa ACHIEVE is an online system to support teams of educators, service providers, and families in developing and implementing Individualized Family Service Plans (IFSPs) and Individualized Educational Programs (IEPs). ACHIEVE makes individualized planning easy by focusing attention on the learner, simplifying processes and streamlining the use of data, providing tools to improve decision making and individualization, and facilitating team member communication and collaboration.

Child Find Zoom Link

At the end of the day, you may work on completing some of the annual trainings through Safe Schools. These include:

• Active Shooter
• Bloodborne Pathogens
• Hazard Communication
• Title IX Compliance
• Suicide Awareness, Prevention, & Postvention

  

Below is the schedule for the day.

• 8:00-10:00 AM: All Staff report to buildings

• School Improvement Planning

• 10:00-11:30 AM: PK-12 Special Education Teachers and Nurses

• HS Multipurpose Room

• Achieve: IEP Development, Part 2

• 11:30-1:00: Lunch

• 1:00-2:30 PM: All Staff report to buildings

• Child Find training

• Zoom

• 2:30-3:30: All Staff

• Safe Schools Required Trainings

Elementary Grade Level Collaboration

We are looking forward to our first elementary grade level collaboration on Wednesday, September 28th.  This session will be unique in that we are asking all elementary teachers to remain in their buildings and report to your building meeting location at 2:30 PM.  Our agenda will include considerations for selecting instructional materials, and the launch of Southeast Polk University. You may want to bring a notebook and pen/pencil, and no other materials will be needed.  We look forward to working together on Wednesday!  

Agenda
Selecting Instructional Materials	Southeast Polk University
Considerations for Selecting Materials Vetting Online Resources	Overview Course Design Course Catalog Enrolling in Courses

Secondary Job-Alike Collaboraqtion

We are looking forward to our first job-alike collaboration on Wednesday, September 14th.  This session will be unique in that we are asking all secondary teachers to report to the HS Auditorium by 7:30 AM.  Our agenda will include considerations for selecting instructional materials, and the launch of Southeast Polk University. You may want to bring a notebook and pen/pencil, and no other materials will be needed.  We look forward to working together on Wednesday!  

Agenda
Selecting Instructional Materials	Southeast Polk University
Considerations for Selecting Materials Vetting Online Resources	Overview Course Design Course Catalog Enrolling in Courses