August 21 Professional Learning

Welcome back to a new school year!  We are looking forward to learning opportunities for both students and staff.  Our first district staff development day will be Wednesday, August 21st.  The learning sessions for this day were planned based on feedback from teacher teams.  In addition, all staff will be completing the online suicide prevention training.  Below is information related to this day.  It will also be reviewed during preservice on Monday.

• The hours for this day are 8:00 AM-4:00 PM.
• All sessions will be held at Southeast Polk High School.
• Lunch is on your own from 11:45 AM-1:00 PM.
• Please bring a charged laptop and earbuds or headphones for the online training portion of the day.
• Make sure you know your username and password to AEA Learning Online prior to August 21st.*

*Please note: It takes 24 hours for a new account to be registered so that you may take online courses.  If you do not have an account, please set one up as soon as possible.

The day will consist of a keynote and 4 breakout sessions.  During the morning sessions you will attend one session as a follow up with the keynote speaker and you will choose one breakout session. During the afternoon sessions you will take the online suicide prevention training for one session and choose one breakout session.  Some breakout rooms can hold 50-60 people.  Classroom breakout rooms can hold 25-30 people.  It will be helpful to have a first and second choice in case a session is full. You may want to strategically plan with your team to attend a variety of sessions and share your learning during team time and collaboration. Session leaders are from Employee Family Resources, Heartland AEA, and Southeast Polk. Below is a link to the schedule and room assignments for the day:

Southeast Polk Professional Learning 8.21.19