Registration is restricted to AEA employees.

This workshop is designed to assist employees in understanding what impacts customer satisfaction. It explores differences in people - from generational differences and personality traits, including difficult personality types - and effective strategies for building positive work environments through putting customers first.

This seminar will be held at 3:00PM for about an hour at the Bettendorf Learning Center and transmitted to all Service Centers via polycom for your convenience.

Registration is restricted to AEA employees.

Maintaining healthy and happy personal relationships directly impacts our ability to be productive employees at work. This workshop explores the changing nature of personal relationships, discusses the differences between what is healthy and unhealthy in relationships, and suggestions for taking care of ourselves and those who are important to us.

This seminar will be held at 3:00PM for about an hour at the Bettendorf Learning Center and transmitted to all Service Centers via polycom for your convenience.

Registration is restricted to AEA employees.

Are you caught between caring for aging parents, while still raising your own family - and trying to work? This program is for you. You will learn the importance of self-care for caregivers, setting limits as a caregiver, and community resources that are available to help.

This seminar will be held at 3:00PM for about an hour at the Bettendorf Learning Center and transmitted to all Service Centers via polycom for your convenience.

This workshop will provide a general overview of team building. It will focus on making team members aware of their strengths and successes while increasing group cohesion and reducing interpersonal conflict. Team members will learn effective ways to plan, share ideas, and communicate.

The Gifted CATN meetings provide an opportunity for the professional staff serving gifted students as administrators or teachers to network and receive training on issues related to serving gifted students.

Introduction to Alignment (repeat session of Year 2, Module 7)- This is foundational work to establish a baseline understanding of the alignment work ahead as relative to expectations of Iowa Core Curriculum.

Registration for this course will close on November 10, 2009. Registrations processed after the close date of the course, if room is available, will be charged an additional $25 late registration fee.

The one-day hands-on workshop will transition from a discussion of the IPI student engagement categories to skill development in the documentation of categories. Each participant will complete a brief skill assessment at the conclusion of the workshop and will receive copies of materials necessary to use IPI in his/her respective school. A data computation file will also be provided so each school can enter and prints its own profile charts for study and discussion.

Participants from AEA 9 must submit two sets of IPI data to MBAEA following the training.

Registration for this course will close on September 15, 2009. Registrations processed after the close date of the course will be charged an additional $25 late registration fee.

The 3 1/2 hour advanced session is for participants who have been through Level I Instructional Practices Inventory Walk-Through Training and are currently certified. The goals of the session are (a) to build a deeper understanding of how to use the walk-through data, particularly the reflection sessions with faculty and (b) to foster faculty analysis of the data that leads to organizational learning.

Registrants must have previously taken IPI Level I Training to register for this session. Each participant must bring to the session one set of the school’s IPI data. Choose morning or afternoon session.

Registration for this course will close on September 16, 2009. Registrations processed after the close date of the course will be charged an additional $25 late registration fee.

A repeat of the January Iowa Acceleration Scale will be conducted in the morning. After lunch, the afternoon will include discussion of site visit issues with gifted education and planning for 2009-2010. Afternoon session will begin at 1 pm.

Registration is restricted to AEA employees only.

We are offering training to AEA staff on Word 2007 and PowerPoint 2007. We will spend the first two hours going over the changes in PowerPoint 2007 and the remaining two hours reviewing the changes in Word 2007. Handouts will be provided.

If someone in your care became disruptive or assaultive—what would you do?

It’s difficult to predict exactly how you might respond during a crisis. Yet, as a human service provider, you face challenging behavior and potentially dangerous situations every day. How you respond greatly determines the safety of everyone involved—and profoundly impacts the relationships with those in your care. Are you prepared?

The Nonviolent Crisis Intervention® program, developed by the Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI), not only teaches staff to respond effectively to the warning signs that someone is beginning to lose control, but also addresses how staff can deal with their own stress, anxieties, and emotions when confronted with these challenging situations.

If someone in your care became disruptive or assaultive—what would you do?

It’s difficult to predict exactly how you might respond during a crisis. Yet, as a human service provider, you face challenging behavior and potentially dangerous situations every day. How you respond greatly determines the safety of everyone involved—and profoundly impacts the relationships with those in your care. Are you prepared?

The Nonviolent Crisis Intervention® program, developed by the Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI), not only teaches staff to respond effectively to the warning signs that someone is beginning to lose control, but also addresses how staff can deal with their own stress, anxieties, and emotions when confronted with these challenging situations.

This session is restricted to the Clinton School District only.

If someone in your care became disruptive or assaultive—what would you do?

It’s difficult to predict exactly how you might respond during a crisis. Yet, as a human service provider, you face challenging behavior and potentially dangerous situations every day. How you respond greatly determines the safety of everyone involved—and profoundly impacts the relationships with those in your care. Are you prepared?

The Nonviolent Crisis Intervention® program, developed by the Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI), not only teaches staff to respond effectively to the warning signs that someone is beginning to lose control, but also addresses how staff can deal with their own stress, anxieties, and emotions when confronted with these challenging situations.

Registration for 09/28/09 Session will close on 09/14/09.

Registration for 10/28/09 Session will close on 10/14/09.

Registrations processed after the close date of the course will be charged an additional $25 late registration fee.

The August 18 and August 19 sessions are limited to the Clinton school district only.

If someone in your care became disruptive or assaultive—what would you do?

It’s difficult to predict exactly how you might respond during a crisis. Yet, as a human service provider, you face challenging behavior and potentially dangerous situations every day. How you respond greatly determines the safety of everyone involved—and profoundly impacts the relationships with those in your care. Are you prepared?

The Nonviolent Crisis Intervention® program, developed by the Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI), not only teaches staff to respond effectively to the warning signs that someone is beginning to lose control, but also addresses how staff can deal with their own stress, anxieties, and emotions when confronted with these challenging situations.

This course is for those individuals who need to recertify their non-crisis Intervention Certificate.

Anna Mika will be here to provide a free workshop on Promethean’s new Inspire Software. All current and prospective Promethean users are welcome.

Anna Mika, from Promethean, will be here on Tuesday, March 24th from 8:30 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. Please join us for the day, or just a couple of hours. Anna will be available to assist you with questions you have on using your Promethean.

Please register online for this session and email Robert Reppert rreppert@aea9.k12.ia.us with the time frame you will be in attendance.

This online course will review the 6 critical elements for transition compliance in secondary IEPs. Passing 3 quizzes with 75% correct will certify participants to be able to collect data on Indicator B13, which is the federal indicator for transition compliance in secondary IEPs.

This series of workshops is for 7-12 social studies teachers interested in learning more about their content area as we move into 21st Century Learning. We will review current trends in social studies, work through social studies unit examples, continue alignment with the Iowa Core Curriculum, and network with others.

Do you work with an individual who needs to…

• participate more fully in the classroom curriculum?

• interact socially with others?

• regulate challenging behaviors to increase academic and social success?

• expand receptive and expressive language skills?

• communicate successfully in all environments?

If so, this workshop is for you! We will discuss common myths in the areas of communication and learning regarding individuals with autism and how we can respond to them with current research. Then we will focus on specific ways to address expressive and receptive language, behavior and emotional regulation and social communication. We will discuss and demonstrate strategies and techniques for both individuals with autism and their communication partners including classroom supports and no tech, low tech and high tech AAC. Activities, discussion, and case studies will be utilized to help participants personalize these strategies and techniques. Planning tools and ready-to-use resources will be introduced to help participants prepare to use the new ideas immediately! Instructors are Lisa Kehoe, Bethany Diener, DynaVox Mayer-Johnson

Following this session, participants will:

1) Respond to 2-3 myths related to individuals with autism

2) Apply the Least Dangerous Assumption as it relates to communication and learning for individuals with autism

3) Match one to two classroom supports and/or AAC tools/strategies to each target area

• Expressive and receptive language

• Behavior and emotional regulation.

• Social communication

4) Identify 3-4 classroom and/or communication supports for one individual with autism.

Agenda: (Lunch is on your own.)

• Introduction

• Common Myths Regarding Autism and AAC

• Principle of the Least Dangerous Assumption

• Strategies for Success

• Expressive and receptive language

• Behavior and emotional regulation

• Social communication

• Making it Personal

• Questions and Discussion

This session will act as a springboard for the learning opportunities the participant engaged in from the February 10th Session: Identifying and Enhancing Classroom Rigor in High Schools. The participants will gain deeper understanding of how to increase rigor and relevance in their classrooms.

Option: Additional conference rooms have been reserved for participating schools that wish to utilize AEA 9 Conference Center rooms for afternoon team planning. QL consultants will be available to assist schools in this process. Please contact Sally Rigeman at srigeman@aea9.k12.ia.us or 563-344-6562 to request this service.

Please note that the March 2nd and April 23rd sessions are repeat sessions. Plan to attend either March 2nd OR April 23rd.

           Tony Wagner - Choices, Changes and Challenges: Meeting the Needs of 21st Century Students

In the new global economy, with many jobs either automated or “off-shored”, what skills will students need to build successful careers? What skills will they need to be good citizens? In order to answer these questions Tony Wagner conducted research with business, nonprofit, philanthropic, and educational leader to identify seven survival skills that all students should master:
1) Critical thinking and problem solving,
2) Collaboration across networks and leading by influence
3) Agility and adaptability
4) Initiative and entrepreneurship,
5) Effective oral and written communication,
6) Accessing and analyzing information,
7) Curiosity and imagination, and will align these survival skills to the Iowa Core Curriculum

PLEASE NOTE: Special 1/2 Price Book Offer - "The Global Achievement Gap" by Tony Wagner.

Registration for this course will close on September 8, 2009. Registrations processed after the close date of the course will be charged an additional $25 late registration fee.