Achieve will be hosting 2 days of professional learning to support teachers in implementing the new Iowa Science Standards.

This session supports the use of the EQuIP Rubric for Science to help deepen your understanding of the Iowa Science Standards while providing you with criteria for measuring how well lessons and units are designed for the Iowa Science Standards.

This two-day training will help you better recognize materials that are truly designed for the Iowa Science Standards and to think about how you might modify the lessons and units that you are already using to better match up with what is new and different about the Iowa Science Standards.

Following the 2 day session, participants will be expected to apply the EQuIP rubric to a unit they used in the past year or will be using in the upcoming year and submit the completed rubric.

Educators in TLC roles are strongly encouraged to attend the session with teachers from their district.

PREREQUISITE: Understanding of the structure and three-dimensional nature of the science standards is required. If you did not attend the two courses Implementing the Iowa Science Standards-Year 1, please review these Iowa Science Standards Overview documents.

Course Syllabus available by request.

Instructors: Matt Krehbiel, Iram Shaikh
AEA Contacts: Tammy Askeland-Nagle, Robert Reppert

Dates: 5/14/18, 5/15/18
3+ hours of in-district followup for each session.
Time: 8:30-3:30
Location: Mississippi Bend Area Education Agency, Bettendorf
This course will open for public registration on 4/16/18.

Costs:
$35 for 1 Relicensure credit
no cost for no credit/audit
Optional: $30 NGSS booklet

This course is not offered for Drake credit.

Mississippi Bend AEA will be facilitating a blended version of professional learning to support teachers in implementing the new Iowa Science Standards. This workshop will include an online portion in which teachers will engage in an overview of the standards, participate in an “immersion activity,” learn about the role of phenomena in the standards, and will use the EQuIP rubric to evaluate a lesson for alignment to the standards. At the face-to-face session teachers will begin creating a standards-aligned unit which will include unpacking and bundling standards, selecting an appropriate phenomenon, designing student products, and creating a coherent storyline.

Educators in TLC roles are strongly encouraged to participate and attend the session with teachers from their district.

PREREQUISITE: Understanding of the structure and three-dimensional nature of the science standards is required. If you did not attend the course Implementing the Iowa Science Standards-Year 1, please review these Iowa Science Standards Overview documents.

Coaches and Administrators may also want to attend Supporting the Creation of Science Assessments: Administrators and Coaches .

Optional: Iowa Science Standards booklet can be purchased at time of registration for $30 or downloaded from
www.nextgenscience.org

Two repeat sessions will be held. Each session includes self-paced learning and one face-to-face meeting at the AEA.

Instructor: Robert Reppert

Session 7390
Cancelled
Start date: 10/9/17
Face to face: 11/13/17, 8:30-3:30
Registration closes 10/2/17.

Session 7391
Start date: 2/26/18 Cancelled
Face to face: 4/5/18, 8:30-3:30
Registration closes 2/20/18.

Location: Mississippi Bend Area Education Agency, Bettendorf

Costs:
$20 materials fee
$30 Optional NGSS booklet
Or download for free at: www.nextgenscience.org no cost for audit/no credit

This is a no credit workshop.

In collaboration with the Iowa Department of Education, Mississippi Bend AEA will host 2 days of professional learning to support teachers in implementing the new Iowa Science Standards. This session will focus on evaluating assessments for alignment to the standards and the designing classroom assessments that incorporate the three dimensions of the Iowa Science Standards.
On Day 1 teachers will be asked to modify or create a standards-aligned assessment.
In between Days 1 and 2, teachers will administer the assessment and on Day 2 teachers will analyze student responses and determine next steps.

Educators in TLC roles are strongly encouraged to attend the session with teachers from their district.
Coaches and Administrators may also want to attend Supporting the Creation of Science Assessments: Administrators and Coaches .

PREREQUISITE: Understanding of the structure and three-dimensional nature of the science standards is required. If you did not attend the two courses Implementing the Iowa Science Standards-Year 1 and Year 2, please review these Iowa Science Standards Overview documents.

Optional: Iowa Science Standards booklet can be purchased at time of registration for $30 or downloaded from
www.nextgenscience.org

Course Syllabus

Repeat sessions for Grades 6-12 will be held. Each session includes a two-day meeting at the AEA and in-district follow up sessions.

Please register for your appropriate Grade Level:
Grades K-5

Instructor: Tammy Askeland-Nagle

Session Number: 7388
Dates: 1/23/18, 3/5/18
Session Number: 7389
Dates: 6/7/18, 6/8/18
3 hours of in-district followup for each session.

Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm
Location: Mississippi Bend Area Education Agency, Bettendorf
Registration closes 10 days prior to the start date to ensure materials are available.

Costs:
$55 for 1 Relicensure credit + materials
$20 no credit/audit and materials
Optional: $30 NGSS booklet
Or download at: www.nextgenscience.org

This course is not offered for Drake credit.

In collaboration with the Iowa Department of Education, Mississippi Bend AEA will host 2 days of professional learning to support teachers in implementing the new Iowa Science Standards. This session will focus on evaluating assessments for alignment to the standards and the designing classroom assessments that incorporate the three dimensions of the Iowa Science Standards.
On Day 1 teachers will be asked to modify or create a standards-aligned assessment.
In between Days 1 and 2, teachers will administer the assessment and on Day 2 teachers will analyze student responses and determine next steps.

Educators in TLC roles are strongly encouraged to attend the session with teachers from their district.
Coaches and Administrators may also want to attend Supporting the Creation of Science Assessments: Administrators and Coaches .

PREREQUISITE: Understanding of the structure and three-dimensional nature of the science standards is required. If you did not attend the two courses Implementing the Iowa Science Standards-Year 1 and Year 2, please review these Iowa Science Standards Overview documents.

Optional: Iowa Science Standards booklet can be purchased at time of registration for $30 or downloaded from
www.nextgenscience.org

Course Syllabus

Repeat sessions for Grades K-5 will be held. Each session includes a two-day meeting at the AEA and in-district follow up sessions.

Please register for your appropriate Grade Level:
Grades 6-12

Instructor: Tammy Askeland-Nagle

Session: 7386
Dates: 6/4/18, 6/5/18
Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm
Location: MBAEA, Clinton
3 hours of in-district followup for each session.

Registration closes 10 days prior to the start date to ensure materials are available.

Costs:
$55 for 1 Relicensure credit + materials
$20 no credit/audit and materials
Optional: $30 NGSS booklet
Or download at: www.nextgenscience.org

This course is not offered for Drake credit.

Achieve will be hosting 2 days of professional learning to support teachers in implementing the new Iowa Science Standards. This session will focus on evaluating assessments for alignment to the standards.

On Day 1, teachers will use the Achieve Task Screener to evaluate a common assessment task. On Day 2, teachers will use their deepened understanding of high-quality assessments designed for three-dimensional standards to evaluate the alignment of locally-developed assessments, including suggesting improvements to the tasks to meet their intended purposes.

Following the 2 day session, participants will be expected to apply the tool to a task they used in the past year or will be using in the upcoming year and submit their annotated work.

Educators in TLC roles are strongly encouraged to attend the session with teachers from their district.

PREREQUISITE: Understanding of the structure and three-dimensional nature of the science standards is required. If you did not attend “Implementing the Iowa Science Standards-Year 1” please review these resources.

Seeing Students Learn Science portions of this book will be used during the session. You can download it for free by clicking on the link.

Instructors: Aneesha Badrinarayan and Molly Ewing from Achieve; Tammy Askeland-Nagle, AEA
Dates: 7/30-31/18
Time: 8:30-3:30 + 3+ hours of in-district support
Location: Mississippi Bend AEA, Bettendorf
Registration closes 7/15/18.

Cost:
no cost for audit/no credit
$35 for 1 Relicensure credit
Optional: $30 NGSS booklet
Or download at: www.nextgenscience.org

YES! (Youth and Environmental Sustainability) is a joint project with Eastern Iowa Community Colleges (EICC) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to facilitate the incorporation of critical thinking, problem solving and decision making skills to understand the environmental topics of climate change, air pollution and water pollution. The project involves not only information dissemination, but suggestions for action from students on issues regarding climate change and nonpoint and point source water pollution through case studies that allow students to weigh different sides of the issues through critical thinking, problem solving and decision making.

Participating middle and high school teachers will receive a$250 stipend for their evaluation of the workshop and for pilot-testing the workshop activities in their classrooms. Following each workshop, educators will take the instructional materials back to their school and incorporate the new material into their science curriculum.

Sub-grants of $1,000 will be disseminated to participating schools to purchase educational materials and activities to use in their classrooms and for field trips to the ATEEC Learning Laboratory and Nahant Marsh.

ATEEC staff will use the best practices from the classrooms and results from the pilot-test evaluations to develop an Educator Guide for middle school and high school science teachers.

Course Syllabus

Instructor: Heather Ballou - ATEEC Interactive Learning Lab/EICC
Dates: 7/10/17, 7/11/17, 7/12/17, 7/13/17, 7/14/17 +12-14 hours of outside class work
Time: 8:30 - 4:30
Location for first day: ATEEC Interactive Learning Lab/EICC, 201 N. Harrison St., Ste. 102, Davenport

Costs:
1 Drake Credit $105
1 Relicensure Credit $35
$0 for audit/no credit option

This course has been cancelled.

This year´s course is: Taking Educators Out of the Classroom and into Nature

Explore topics focused on environmental sustainability and gain new skills to be used in the classroom. This exciting workshop is only open to Iowa Educators. Over the course of the workshop, educators will engage in a variety of outdoor, hands-on activities including water quality testing, turtle sampling, and mussel collection. There will also be a diverse number of tours including a pontoon cruise in the backwaters of the Mississippi River and a tour of the local weather station. At the conclusion of the workshop, educators will team up with biologists and participate in a BioBlitz.

YES! (Youth and Environmental Sustainability) is a joint project with Eastern Iowa Community Colleges (EICC) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to facilitate the incorporation of critical thinking, problem solving and decision making skills to understand the environmental topics of climate change, air pollution and water pollution.

Participating middle and high school teachers will receive a$250 stipend for their evaluation of the workshop and for pilot-testing the workshop activities in their classrooms. Following each workshop, educators will take the instructional materials back to their school and incorporate the new material into their science curriculum. ATEEC staff will use the best practices from the classrooms and results from the pilot-test evaluations to develop an Educator Guide for middle school and high school science teachers.

Attendees may apply for one of eighteen $1000 sub-grants that will be disseminated to participating schools to purchase educational materials and activities to use in their classrooms and for field trips to the ATEEC Learning Laboratory and Nahant Marsh.

If you took the course in 2017, you can take this course for credit, but cannot receive the stipend/grant again.

Course Syllabus

Instructor: Heather Ballou - ATEEC Interactive Learning Lab/EICC
Dates: 6/18/18, 6/20/18, 6/21/18, 9:00-4:00; 6/19/18 10:00-5:00
6/22/18 or 6/23/18: 4 hours participation at the BioBlitz
+15 hours of outside class work
Registration closes 6/5/18.
Location for first day: Nahant Marsh Education Center, 4220 Wapello Ave., Davenport
Transportation is needed for all days for visitis to the compost facility, waste water treatment center, Exelon Generations Learning Center, Roock Creek Marina, Linwood Mines, Natioanl Weather Service, and ATEEC.

Costs:
1 Drake Credit $115
1 Relicensure Credit $35
$0 for audit/no credit option