This course has been cancelled.

This online course is open only to educators working in the AEA 9 service area.

This Professional Development course will provide the participants with a hands-on blueprint in both understanding and applying the Common Core Foundational Skills. The phonetic code will be demystified with an easy-to-follow Voweletics™ instructional method. Participants will develop proficiency and confidence in understanding the basic phonetic skills required for excellent word decoding in single and multi-syllabic words; resulting in improved knowledge and teaching of reading and spelling. As stated in the Report of the National Reading Panel, “It is critical for teachers to understand that systematic phonics instruction can be provided in an entertaining, vibrant and creative manner.” This course provides instruction in exactly that manner.

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Instructors: Jane Volden, Katie Selden, Ashley Banton, Mary Beilke

Session: 5824
This session is online. You will receive online course instructions several days before the course begins.
Dates: 6/10/13 - 8/4/13
Final assignments are due 8/9/13; grades will be posted by 8/23/13.
Registration closes 5/28/13. Final assignments are due 4/24/12; grades will be posted by 5/6/13.

Cost:
$340 for 2 Drake credits
$200 for 2 Relicensure credits
$100 for audit/no credit option
$10 for CEUs; please check with your licensing agency to verify the appropriateness of course/workshop content. A CEU certificate will be provided after the completion of the course/workshop.

This session has been cancelled.

This course will help teachers to plan for using literature and picture books using cooking activities. Teachers will learn how to combine literature, writing, math, and collaboration. The teachers will also explore more uses in the areas of reading, language arts, and writing.

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This course is appropriate for Paraeducators to use toward para certificate renewal.

Instructor: Sharon Dixon
Location: Mississippi Bend AEA, Bettendorf

Dates: 6/19/17, 6/20/17
Time: 8:30 - 4:30
Registration closes 6/5/16.

Cost:
$85 for 1 Relicensure credit (for teacher license renewal)
$85 for participant only/audit

There will be two repeat sessions of this one-day workshop.

Classwide Interventions are quick, simple, and time bound researched literacy routines, implemented to all students in the tier 1 environment. Literacy classwide interventions are designed to provide additional instructional supports for one or more of the foundational literacy skills (concepts, phonological awareness, alphabet knowledge, phonics/decoding, irregular/sight words, fluency, oral language, vocabulary, comprehension, and/or spelling/writing.) Learning targets are aligned to skills along the literacy-learning continuum where proficiency is expected, yet data indicates that nearly 60% of the class still falls short of mastery. Outcomes are measured for all students.

You may order the manuals before March 1 and receive it at the workshop, or place the order on your own at: Univ. of Minnesota, PRESS manuals

Instructors: AEA Literacy Consultants

Session: 6932
3/11/16, 12:30-3:00
Registration closes 3/8/16; book orders are no longer being taken. See link above to order books on your own.

Session 6933
3/18/16, 1:30-4:00 Registration closes 3/8/16; book order is closed.

Location: Mississippi Bend AEA, Bettendorf

Costs:
PRESS Intervention Manual, 2nd Edition: $77
PRESS Assessment Manual, 2nd Edition: $37
Discount Offer: PRESS Intervention Manual& Assessment Manual: $97
includes S/H for book order

The PRESS Intervention Manual, Second Edition provides a guidebook for data-based decision making and K-5 student interventions, covering the five essential components of reading instruction. View the table of contents and a sample intervention here Sample.

The PRESS Assessment Manual, Second Edition contains skill assessments for phonemic awareness, phonics, and comprehension. The manual is a valuable resource for monitoring the progress of students receiving Tier 2 interventions. View the table of contents and a sample intervention here Sample.

Participants in these trainings should have a working knowledge of the Iowa Core English Arts Standards: history, development, format/structure, and meaning of the standards and their vocabulary. To support the implementation of the Iowa Core ELA standards, AEA reading consultants worked with teams of teachers to develop grade-level, year-long K-12 Scope and Sequence charts. In these scope and sequence charts, teachers find the ELA standards divided into teachable units.

Participants will examine resources provided for implementation: the K-12 Scope and Sequence and the Unit Planning Organizer for units 1-5 for grades 9-12, and unit 6 for grades 9-10. They will have some work time to develop standards-based lessons aligned to each unit.

Goals of the trainings:
1. Participants will examine the K-12 Scope and Sequence.
2. Participants will study the Unit Planning Organizer for their grade.
3. Participants will plan standards-based instruction based on the Unit Planning Organizer.

Each workshop will spend two days covering the following ELA Standards Units, grades 9-12:
Unit 1: 7/18/14 & 7/25/14
Unit 2: 9/22/14 & 9/23/14
Unit 3: 10/16/14 & 10/17/14
Unit 4: 2/19/15 & 2/20/15
Unit 5: 3/25/15 & 3/26/15
Unit 6: 4/9/15 & 4/10/15 (grades 9-10 only)

You may earn credit for attending 2 or more of the two-day workshops.
Please select the appropriate credit type AND dates of workshops you will be attending.
2 workshops = 1 credit
3 workshops = 2 credits
4-5 workshops = 3 credits

Please note: Grades and transcripts for this course will not be issued until April, 2015.

If you will be attending the workshops for no credit, please select the workshop(s) that you will be attending.

Instructors: Helen Duranleau-Brennan, Kathy Learn
Session No.: 6226
Date: various (see above)
Time:
7/18/14 & 7/25/14: 8:30 - 3:30
all other workshops: 8:00 - 3:00
Location: Mississippi Bend AEA, Bettendorf

Costs:
$170 per Drake credit
$100 per Relicensure credit
$5 materials fee per workshop.

This course is designed to provide ELA teachers with several instructional routines/strategies to use in standards-based lessons. Participants will examine such instructional routines/strategies as close reading, reciprocal teaching, think aloud, reading for meaning, compare and contrast, inductive learning, circle of knowledge, write to learn, and vocabulary CODE. Participants will work independently and collaboratively to develop standards-based lessons incorporating these instructional routines/strategies. There is a fee for materials. Participants must attend all sessions.

Registration for this workshop will close 5/30/14.

Instructors: Kathleen Learn, Helen Duranleau-Brennan
Session No.: 6437
This session is cancelled. Dates: 10/14/14, 11/20/14, 12/16/14
Time: 8:00 - 3:00
Location: Mississippi Bend AEA, Bettendorf

Costs:
$185 for 1 Drake graduate credit
$115 for 1 Relicensure credit
$15 for Audit/no credit option

This course is full. You may sign up for the wait list and will be notified in early June if there is an opening.

This course will be an introduction to the Iowa Core ELA standards with the content based on the meaning and intention of the Iowa Core ELA standards, as well as the pedagogy of teaching and assessing the standards with fidelity. Participants will examine the Iowa Core English Language Arts Standards with a focus on the history, development, format, and structure of the standards. They will deconstruct (unwrap) the standards to determine the concepts and skills that are embedded within each standard.

This will lead to the creation of learning targets for selected standards. Teachers will connect the unwrapped standards and learning targets to create integrated, standards-based lessons. These lessons will be based on the pre-designed units (units 1, 3, and 5) that will be provided. The expectation is that the units will be implemented throughout the school year with support from the coach and the collaborative grade-level team from the cohort.

Participants will also engage in learning based on the Gradual Release of Responsibility framework for quality instruction. Creating standards-based focus lessons that include purpose, learning targets, and modeling will be the basis of the observation and coaching conversations for the course.

Participants will work collaboratively among and across districts to design standards-based lessons (within the pre-designed unit provided) for which they collect, analyze, and use data to inform instruction. Participants will engage in monthly coaching (Sept., Oct., Nov., Jan., Feb., Apr.) that includes an observation and coaching conversation with an AEA coach.

You can access the course syllabus by clicking on the following link and searching for the course title.
Course Syllabus

Instructors: Leigh McEwen, Lisa Hawker, Terri Parker, Beth Roland
Session: 6184
Dates: 6/11/14, 6/12/14, 9/12/14, 10/29/14, 11/20/14, 1/22/15, 2/25/15, 4/22/15; coaching dates will be determined with the instructors
Time: 8:30-3:30; 1 hour lunch on your own
Location: Mississippi Bend AEA, Bettendorf

Costs:
$190 for 1 Drake graduate credit
$360 for 2 Drake graduate credits
$530 for 3 Drake graduate credits
$120 for 1 Relicensure credit
$220 for 2 Relicensure credits
$320 for 3 Relicensure credits
$20 for audit/no credit
The time commitment and work are the same for one, two, or three credits.
All materials are included in the fees.

This course is now full. You may still register for the wait list. You will be notified by June 1 if you may join the class.

This course will be an introduction to the Iowa Core ELA standards with the content based on the meaning and intention of the Iowa Core ELA standards, as well as the pedagogy of teaching and assessing the standards with fidelity. Participants will examine the Iowa Core English Language Arts Standards with a focus on the history, development, format, and structure of the standards. They will deconstruct (unwrap) the standards to determine the concepts and skills that are embedded within each standard.

This will lead to the creation of learning targets for selected standards. Teachers will connect the unwrapped standards and learning targets to create integrated, standards-based lessons. These lessons will be based on the pre-designed units (units 1, 3, and 5) that will be provided. The expectation is that the units will be implemented throughout the school year with support from the coach and the collaborative grade-level team from the cohort.

Participants will also engage in learning based on the Gradual Release of Responsibility framework for quality instruction. Creating standards-based focus lessons that include purpose, learning targets, and modeling will be the basis of the observation and coaching conversations for the course.

Participants will work collaboratively among and across districts to design standards-based lessons (within the pre-designed unit provided) for which they collect, analyze, and use data to inform instruction. Participants will engage in monthly coaching (Sept., Oct., Nov., Jan., Feb., Apr.) that includes an observation and coaching conversation with an AEA coach.

You can access the course syllabus by clicking on the following link and searching for the course title.
Course Syllabus

Instructors: Leigh McEwen, Lisa Hawker, Terri Parker
Session: 6183
Dates: 6/11/14, 6/12/14, 9/11/14, 10/14/14, 11/18/14, 1/15/15, 2/17/15, 4/8/15; coaching dates will be determined with the instructors
Time: 8:30-3:30; 1 hour lunch on your own
Location: Mississippi Bend AEA, Bettendorf

Costs:
$190 for 1 Drake graduate credit
$360 for 2 Drake graduate credits
$530 for 3 Drake graduate credits
$120 for 1 Relicensure credit
$220 for 2 Relicensure credits
$320 for 3 Relicensure credits
$20 for audit/no credit
The time commitment and work are the same for one, two, or three credits.
All materials are included in the fees.

Participants of this course will be making explicit connections between their content areas and the Iowa Core ELA literacy standards expected of all teachers. This course will provide participants a working knowledge of the literacy expectations of the Iowa Core for teachers of CTE, Science, Social Studies, Special Education, and World Languages. Participants will examine the key shifts in literacy instruction as they explore their role as providers of standards-based instruction in reading and writing as it relates to their teaching role. Instructional routines and strategies will be provided for implementation in the classroom such as close reading, think aloud, reciprocal teaching, summarizing, argumentative writing, informative writing, reading for main idea, citing textual evidence, and questioning during reading. To apply the instructional routines and strategies, participants will develop standards-based lessons to implement in their classrooms with their content. Participants must attend all sessions to receive credit.

You can access the course syllabus by clicking on the following link and searching for the course title.
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Instructors: Tammy Askeland-Nagle, Kathleen Learn
Session: 6224
Dates: 9/17/14, 10/20/14, 11/17/14, 12/10/14
Time: 8:30-3:30; 1 hour lunch on your own
Location: Mississippi Bend AEA, Bettendorf

Costs:
$185 for 1 Drake graduate credit
$115 for 1 Relicensure credit
$15 for audit/no credit
All materials are included in the fees.

This course is for educators in the Calamus Wheatland School District only.

Participants will develop an understanding of the history, development, and key shifts of the Iowa Core English Language Arts (ELA) Standards to be used in content areas. They will learn reading strategies, develop standards-based lessons, and implement them in their classrooms. Participants will benefit from coaching by AEA staff.

Instructors: Helen Duranleau-Brennan and Kathleen Learn
Session: 6435
Dates: 8/15/14, 9/10/14, 9/24/14, 11/12/14, 1/28/15, 2/11/15, 2/25/15, 4/1/15, 4/22/15
Time: 1:30-3:30
Location: Calamus-Wheatland High School

Costs:
$170 for 1 Drake graduate credit
$100 for 1 Relicensure credit (for teacher license renewal)
no cost for Audit/no credit option

The Iowa core curriculum suggests the use of more non-fiction materials in student instruction. In this course, teachers will be given many examples and guidelines to use in choosing high quality non-fiction picture books for use in the curriculum. Teachers will also have time to journal about their experiences and read from professional journal articles and videos.

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Instructor: Sharon Dixon
Session cancelled
Location: Hoover Elem., Bettendorf
Dates: 11/7/16, 11/14/16, 11/21/16, 11/28/16 +30 hours of additional outside class work will be required.
Time: 5:00-9:00 pm
Registration closes 10/30/16.

Cost:
$170 for 1 Drake graduate credit
$100 for 1 Relicensure credit (for teacher license renewal)
$50 for 1 Paraeducator Relicensure credit
$50 for Audit/no credit option

For more information about Drake Univ. EDMA credit visit Drake Credit Info on the MBAEA Professional Development webpage.

This session has been cancelled.)

Teachers will be able to use tools to select and incorporate high quality picture books into their content area curriculum.
Students will benefit from the high quality children’s literature used in the curriculum by their teachers. Everyone will also learn to appreciate literature and understand that picture books are a part of life-long learning.

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Instructor: Sharon Dixon
Location: Mississippi Bend AEA, Bettendorf
Dates: 6/21/17, 6/22/17
Time: 8:30-4:30
Registration closes 6/7/17.

Cost:
$85 for 1 Relicensure credit (for teacher license renewal)
$85 for participant only/audit

This course is designed to support K-12 teachers in re-energizing and redefining the Writing Workshop. Participants will explore and study real-world writing and connect learning to inquiry-based instructional practices in the Writer’s and Language Workshop.

In addition, participants will study and refine instructional practices including mini-lessons and one-on-one conferencing in the writing workshop using a Study Driven/Inquiry-Based approach. Ample time will be provided for planning, collection of resources, and organization of units and series of lessons for writing instruction.

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Participants who are not employed by North Scott schools will need to purchase the following books prior to start date:
The Writing Workshop: Working Through the Hard Parts (And They’re All Hard Parts) by Katie Wood Ray, 2001

Joy Write: Cultivating high-impact, low-stakes writing, R. Fletcher (2017)

Study Driven by Katie Wood Ray

Instructor: Kelsey Bower
Location: Ed White Elem., Eldridge
Dates and Times: 8/1/18, 8/2/18, 8/8/18, 8/9/18, 8/10/18 @ 8:00-1:00
9/12/18, 9/26/18 @ 4:00-6:30 Registration closes 6/29/18.

Costs:
$230 for 2 Drake credits
$70 for 2 Relicensure credits
no cost for audit/no credit

The purpose of this course is to expand the knowledge and expertise of trained Reading Recovery teachers. Participants will teach and observe demonstration lessons and discuss both teaching and learning. They will study various aspects of the literacy acquisition process. A particular emphasis for these sessions will be the study of the newest edition of Literacy Lessons Designed for Individuals. We will be exploring what implications the rearrangement of sections has for our teaching.

If your district is paying the $180 materials fee and you are paying for the credit yourself, please register for the audit level and enter the PO number. Then call or visit the AEA to pay the remaining fees with a credit card or personal check.

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Instructors: Shanna Robinson, Jennifer Smith
Time: 12:30 - 3:30
Location: MBAEA Reading Recovery Room

Session: 7358
Dates: 8/24/17, 9/19/17, 10/17/17, 12/5/17, 1/16/18, 2/27/18, 4/26/18, plus 24+ hours of outside class work (see syllabus)

Session: 7359
Dates: 8/24/17, 9/21/17, 10/19/17, 12/7/17, 1/18/18, 3/1/18, 4/26/18, plus 24+ hours of outside class work (see syllabus)

Costs:
$180 materials fee
Credit fees:
$35 for 1 Relicensure credit ($220 total)
$80 for 1 Drake EDMA graduate credit ($290 total)

For more information about Drake Univ. EDMA credit visit Drake Credit Info on the MBAEA Professional Development webpage.

This course is by invitation only.

Participants will design grade-level curriculum development which includes unwrapping standards into teachable concepts and skills, developing essential understandings and essential questions, creating end-of-unit assessments, and creating unit pre-assessments for units 2, 4, and 6. This work will also consist of revisions of ELA units 1, 3, and 5, which were created during the 2013-2014 school year.

This will lead to future work: the development of rigorous, standards-based lessons. Participants will also use Smarter Balanced Assessment documents and items to help guide the development of the curriculum. Participants will work in grade-level teams to further focus their work. Participation is by invitation only.

You can access the course syllabus by clicking on the following link and searching for the course title.
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Instructors: Kathleen Learn
Session: 6226
Dates: 6/5/14, 6/6/14, 6/9/14, 6/10/14 (optional), 10/6/14, 10/8/14, 1/14/15, 2/2/15, 2/3/15, 6/2/15, 6/3/15
Time: 8:30-3:30; 1 hour lunch on your own
Location: Mississippi Bend AEA, Bettendorf

Costs:
$180 for 1 Drake graduate credit
$350 for 2 Drake graduate credits
$520 for 3 Drake graduate credits
$110 for 1 Relicensure credit
$210 for 2 Relicensure credits
$310 for 3 Relicensure credits
$10 for audit/no credit
The time commitment and work are the same for one, two, or three credits.
All materials are included in the fees.

This course is open only to Bellevue Marquette staff.

Participants will focus on teaching with intention, specifically how to implement effective classroom management strategies; how to plan and execute meaningful and engaging lessons; and how to purposefully and regularly collect and analyze data and use it to guide instruction.

The book, Take Control of the Noisy Class: From chaos to calm in 15 seconds, will be provided to participants.

Instructor: Geoffrey Kaiser
Session: 7274
Dates: 1/16/17, 3/8/17, 3/9/17, 3/24/17
Location: Marquette Catholic Media Center

Cost:
$35 for 1 Relicensure credit
This course is not offered for audit or Drake grad credit.

New credit fees go into effect for courses starting after 1/1/17. Visit MBAEA PD Site for PD News and info.

This course is open only to Bellevue Marquette staff.

Participants will focus on teaching with reflection to incite action, specifically on how to conduct meaningful action research with an area of focus that improves student learning. Participants will then summarize and publish their findings.

Instructor: Geoffrey Kaiser
Session: 7555
Dates: 3/7/18, 3/8/18, 3/12/18, 5/31/18
Location: Marquette Catholic Media Center

Cost:
$35 for 1 Relicensure credit

This session is open only to No. Scott CSD educators.

The class is designed to support K-12 teachers in the implementation of units that promote transfer and integration of learning across multiple academic and social contexts. Participants will be provided time for discussion, reflection, collaborative problem-solving, and guided planning of North Scott units using Grant Wiggins’ and Jay McTighe’s Understanding by Design framework.

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Instructor: Kelsey Bower
Location: John Glenn Elementary, Donahue
Dates & Time:
Registration closes 10/31/17.

Cost:
$35 for 1 Relicensure credit (for teacher license renewal)
This course is not offered for Drake credit.

This course will engage teachers in thinking about themselves as writers in order to enhance their instruction for students. We must ignite a passion for writing—across all content areas-- in our students in order to help them develop into successful communicators for now and the future. We will engage in a (sometimes messy!) deep study or inquiry of genres and modes of writing to discover craft moves that authors deliberately make in order to increase impact of their writing. This study will be followed by participants writing “under the influence” of authors studied.

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Participant to purchase the following books prior to start date:
Study Driven: A framework for planning units of study in the writing workshop, Ray, K.W. (2006)

Joy Write: Cultivating high-impact, low-stakes writing, R. Fletcher (2017)

Instructor: Laura Jacobsen
Location: Ed White Elem., Eldridge
Dates: 6/2017 - 11/2017 - dates to be determined
Registration closes 6/15/17.

Costs:
$35 for 1 Relicensure credit
$105 for 1 Drake credit

This course is open only to Bennett CSD staff.

Participants will dig deeper into the structure of a balanced literacy block and how to respond to the needs of students during Tier 1 and Tier 2 interventions. By examining student data, participants will learn to provide effective whole class and individual interventions.

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Instructors: Jenny Meeske, Helen Duranleau-Brennan
12/20/17, 1/24/18, 2/21/18, 3/21/18, 3/28/18 @ 2:30 - 4:30
2/16/18 @ 8:30 - 3:30
Location: Bennett Elem. School
Registration closes 12/20/17.

Cost:
$35 for 1 relicensure credit
audit/no credit is free

The early literacy skills that are developed during the preschool years have a strong relationship with later literacy skills. The Early Literacy Summer Institute is designed for early childhood educators, administrators, and instructional coaches who work in preschool programs. This course will engage participants in learning that supports the implementation of research based effective practices that promote intentional literacy experiences in preschool classrooms.

Day 1 will feature Dr. Laura Justice, an EHE Distinguished Professor, Teaching and Learning Administration, Executive Director of the Schoenbaum Family Center and the Crane Center for Early Childhood Research and Policy at The Ohio State University. Dr. Justice´s research primarily focuses on young children who exhibit developmental vulnerabilities in language and literacy acquisition. Much of her research considers the effects of teacher- or parent-implemented interventions on children´s learning, including the effective use of storybooks. Dr. Justice’s presentation will focus on literacy development in young children, the importance of explicit/systematic instruction to build literacy skills, the use of book reading/read alouds for teaching foundational literacy knowledge and skills, and strategies to scaffold and differentiate instruction to support children’s differing literacy skills.

Day 2 will focus on research-based instructional practices and strategies that support young children´s early literacy knowledge and skills in the five key areas of literacy development that correlate and have been shown to be predictive of later literacy outcomes – oral language, phonological awareness, alphabetic knowledge, print concepts, and writing.

3 additional hours of on-line contact hours are required in addition to the face-to-face dates. Online content links will be shared by instructor for webinars and videos.

This course is being offered through a grant from the Iowa Department of Education. Each district represented at both days of the training will receive one copy of Read It Again-PreK, a preschool curricular supplement that promotes language and literacy foundations developed by Laura Justice and Anita McGinty; a set of the 15 children´s books used in Read It Again-PreK; and a set of the Read It Again-PreK Lesson Materials. Please note that these materials will go to each district rather than each participant.

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Instructors: Laura Justice, Ph.D. & Jennifer Jansen, AEA staff
6/20/17, 6/21/17 @ 8:30 - 4:00
Location: Mississippi Bend AEA, Bettendorf
Registration closes 6/16/17.

Costs:
$35 for 1 Relicensure credit (for teacher license renewal)
no cost for Audit/no credit option
Course is not offered for Drake credit.
Course is not open to paraeducators.

This course is open only to educators served by the Mississippi Bend AEA.

This course serves as an introduction to the Orton Gillingham program for reading instruction and is designed to help educators understand and teach students with specific language disability (dyslexia). The course includes current research in the area of dyslexia, the phonetic structure of the English language, the importance of multisensory teaching techniques, and a supervised practicum which can involve students of various ages. Participants will also explore implications for fluency, comprehension, vocabulary acquisition, and adaptations to other subject areas.

The cost of the course includes materials. Also recommended reading for the course is:
Unlocking Literacy: Effective Decoding and Spelling Instruction, Second Edition 2nd Edition, available at Amazon.com.

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Instructors: Claudia Reyes-Fry, Theresea Petersen, AOGPE
Session Number: 7241
Dates and Times:
1/9/17, 1/10/17, 2/21/17, 2/22/17, 3/7/17: 8:30 am to 4:00 pm
3/20/17, 4/5/17, 4/19/17, 5/10/17, 5/24/17: 4:30 to 7:45 pm
Times of evening sessions may change based on group consensus.
Location: Mississippi Bend AEA, Bettendorf

Costs:
$400 for 3 Drake credits
$190 for 3 Relicensure credits
$85 for audit/non credit; includes materials
For more information about Drake Univ. EDMA credit visit Drake Credit Info on the MBAEA Professional Development webpage.

New credit fees go into effect for courses starting after 1/1/17. Visit MBAEA PD Site for PD News and info.

All participants, even audit, are expected to complete all work and attend all dates.

           Iowa Core English Language Arts Grades 3-5: Classroom Implementation

Participants will continue their learning in the Iowa Core English Language Arts with the focus on implementing the Iowa Core through their created lessons delivered in their classrooms. Special emphasis will be on the key shifts for instruction required to reach and prepare students to compete in our global society. After exploring the content and structure of the English Language Arts Standards of the Iowa Core, teachers will continue their learning through collaborative discussions and unit planning. As part of this work, teachers will increase their content knowledge of the English Language Arts Core and strengthen their individual pedagogy. This instruction, (work on the Iowa Core), and teacher involvement will include designing, administering and collecting student assessment data, both formative and summative to ensure maximum learning for each and every student.

Teachers will work collaboratively with colleagues at the grade levels to design and deliver rigorous lessons aligned to the Core embedded in thoughtful focused units of study. Participants will receive coaching from AEA Consultants throughout the course to provide support for this critical work.

Registration for this course will close on August 21, 2013. Registrations processed after the close date of the course will be charged an additional $25 late registration fee.

You can access the course syllabus by clicking on the following link and searching for the course title Course Syllabus

Participants should bring the book used during the previous course, Text Complexity – Raising Rigor in Reading by Fisher, Frey, Lapp, to the first class.

This session is open only to North Scott Community School District staff took the TICELA course in the 12/13 school year.

Instructors: Pat Upchurch, Leigh McEwen
Session No.: 5823
Dates: 9/4/13, 10/8/13, 11/11/13, 1/13/14, 2/11/14, 4/28/14 (date changed from 4/12/13)
coaching dates will be determined with the instructors
Location: MBAEA, Bettendorf
Time: 8:30 - 3:30
Costs:
$350 for 2 Drake graduate credits
$210 for 2 Relicensure credits
$10 cost for Audit/no credit option
The time commitment and work are the same for all credit levels and audit.

           LETRS 101 Modules 1-3 (EDMA)

LETRS courses are open to DCSD special education K-12 teachers only.

This is an advanced graduate level course for educators deepening their understanding of language-literacy. The scientifically based reading research information solidifies the deepest, mental model level, using up-to-date brain research that collectively plays into the complex role of reading, writing, and spelling. This intense course instruction consists of 30 hours of intensive training over three precise models that intertwine themselves in developing a profound understanding of the progression of the complex process of reading. The course content to be covered in detail includes:
• Module 1- The Challenge of Learning to Read: why reading instruction is a national priority, learning to read is not natural, what the brain does when it reads, how children learn to read and spell, dyslexia and other causes of reading disability, the research base for understanding reading, and leadership to improve reading and language skills.
• Module 2- The Speech Sounds of English: Phonetics, Phonology, and Phoneme Awareness: phonology and phonological awareness, discover the speech sounds of English, phonology and spelling, understanding language differences, teaching phonological skills, and assessment of phonological skills.
• Module 3- Spellography for Teachers - How English Spelling Works: how print represents speech and the 5 Principles of English Spelling which include: principle 1- the history of English explains spelling; principle 2- we spell by phoneme-grapheme correspondence; principal 3- we spell by the position of a phoneme; principle 4- we spell by letter patterns; and principle 5 -we spell by meaning.

Course Syllabus

Instructor: Shari Larsen

Location: Davenport Learning Center, 1002 W. Kimberly Road
Dates: 11/17/16, 12/20/16, 1/5/17, 1/31/17, 2/21/17
Time: 8:00 - 3:30
Registration closes 12/20/16.

There is also 21+ hours of reading, collaborative work and research associated with the credit of this course to apply it toward a graduate degree with the approval of your college advisor.

To register for additional LETRS courses, click on the course title and select the correct start date.
LETRS 102

Costs:
1 Drake Credit $120
1 Relicensure Credit $40
$0 for audit/no credit option

           LETRS Foundations Training

This LETRS course is open to Muscatine staff only.

This course is intended to deepen participants’ knowledge of the components and principles of scientifically based reading instruction based upon up-to-date brain research in the areas of reading, spelling and writing.

This course prepares participants for the more rigorous, in-depth modules of the overall LETRS professional development program. Crafted for the adult learner, this module addresses aspects of language that are important for literacy; the components of effective instruction; principles of systematic, explicit instruction in each component; and instructional activities that can support the implementation of any comprehensive core program.

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Instructor: Mary Beilke
Dates: 3/29/2016, 4/13/2016, 5/2/2016
Time: 8:00 - 4:00
Location: various district locations
Registration closes 5/2/16.

Costs:
$100 1 Relicensure Credit
no cost/no credit option; all participants must register

This course is not offered for Drake Univ. graduate credit.

Materials will be provided by the district at no additional cost.

           Literacy and Learning Symposium

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    The Literacy and Learning Symposium has been designed to meet the needs of all those impacting literacy in schools. We encourage preschool through high school teachers, instructional coaches, and administrators to attend the symposium to deepen their learning on various best practices in literacy.

Breakout sessions will cover a wide variety of topics, including: high impact strategies, giving more student voice, creating common formative assessments, designing and implementing the 90 min. literacy block and many more!

Featured will be keynote speakers on 8/17/18:
From Phonics to Fluency: Tim Rasinski, Ph.D., Reading & Writing Center, Kent State University
Self and Collective Efficacy: Kristin Anderson, Corwin Educational Consultant

Instructors: Nicole Peterson, Lisa Hawker, Jenny Meeske
Dates & Times:
8/17/18: 8:00-4:00
If taking training for credit, you must attend the three additional dates:
10/16/18, 2/5/19, 4/18/19 @ 8:30-3:30
Location: Mississippi Bend AEA, Bettendorf
Registration closes 8/10/18.

Costs:
$75 Registration fee until 5/31/18
$90 Registration fee on 6/1/18
Credit is available at an additional fee:
$35 1 Relicensure credit
$115 1 Drake EDMA credit

Because this course is offered for Drake credit, all participants, including those taking the course for relicensure credit, will be required to do all the outside of class work.
For more information about Drake Univ. EDMA credit visit Drake Credit Info on the MBAEA Professional Development webpage.

           Literacy Coaches and Academic Interventionists Training

This course us open only to Davenport Community School educators.

To build coaching skills, analysis of diagnostic assessments, and targeted methodology for remediating deficits around Scientifically Based Reading Research for Davenport Community School District’s Reading Coaches and Reading Interventionists. The Instructional Coaching portion of this course based on Jim Knight’s Instructional Coaching model with supplemental information added from Hasbrouck and Denton’s The Reading Coach. Participants will leave with an increased knowledge and understanding of the Instructional Coaching philosophy, the underlying Partnership Principles, coaching in the context of understanding educational change, and the roles of both the instructional coach and the school leader. Additionally we will review administration and scoring procedures of DIBELS Next and to learn how to interpret DIBELS Next data and other informal and formative assessments to change reading outcomes, plan instruction, and evaluate individual and group progress

Course Syllabus

Instructors: Stacey Struck and Mary Beilke
Session Number: 6003
Dates & Times:
8/12/13, 8/13/13, 8/14/13 @ 8:00 - 4:15
9/24/13 @ 8:00 - 12:15
10/15/13, 11/12/13, 12/17/13, 1/21/14, 2/18/14, 3/4/14, 4/15/14, 5/13/14 @ 9:30 - 11:30
Location: Davenport Admin Building

Costs:
You may take this course for 1, 2, or 3 credits. The work requirements and time commitment are the for any level of credit taken.
$170 per Drake Credit
$100 per Relicensure Credit
$0 for audit/no credit option

All participants must register even if taking the course for audit.

           Observation Survey Assessment

Participants in this course will develop expertise in administering and analyzing Marie Clay’s An Observation Survey of Early Literacy Achievement (2013), and interpreting running records to inform the teaching of reading. The Observation Survey measures six literacy tasks: Letter Identification, Word Reading, Concepts About Print, Writing Vocabulary, Hearing and Recording Sounds in Words, Running Records of Text Reading and Slosson Oral Reading Test (R-SORT).

This course is for Reading Recovery Teachers only.

Course Syllabus

Instructors: Shanna Robinson, Jennifer McCollum
Session: 7084
Dates: 8/8/16, 8/9/16, 8/10/16, 8/11/16
Time: 8:00 - 3:00, one hour for lunch on your own
Location: MBAEA Reading Recovery Room

Costs:
$195 for 1 Drake EDMA graduate credit
$125 for 1 Relicensure credit
$25 Audit/No credit materials fee

For more information about Drake Univ. EDMA credit visit Drake Credit Info on the MBAEA Professional Development webpage.

           Orton-Based Word Study Grades K-5

Following the Iowa Professional Development model, this course serves as an introduction to the word study component of Orton Gillingham: an explicit, systematic, sequential and multi-sensory approach to basic language and morphological awareness/decoding, spelling, and vocabulary instruction. This course includes current research, the structure of the explicit lesson plan and multi-sensory methodology, collaborative practice with the Anglo-Saxon, Latin roots and affixes, and to a lesser degree, the Greek combining forms. These elements are essential for students in primary, intermediate, upper elementary, and middle school. Participants will also explore the implications for fluency, comprehension, and adaptations for the content areas in relation to the CCSS Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity: supporting student´s ability to read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts independently and proficiently..

Registration for this course will close on August 29, 2013. Registrations processed after the close date of the course will be charged an additional $25 late registration fee.

You can access the course syllabus by clicking on the following link and searching for the course title Course Syllabus

This session is open only to Northeast CSD employees. If you are not an NECSD employee and would like to take this course, please contact Diane Schumacher, diane.schumacher@northeast.k12.ia.us.

Instructors: Claudia Reyes-Fry, Terri Petersen, AOGPE
Session No.: 6006
Dates & Times:
8/13/13 and 3/14/14 @ 8:00 - 3:30
8/28/13, 9/11/13, 10/9/13, 10/23/13, 11/6/13, 11/20/13, 12/11/13, 1/15/14, 1/29/14, 2/12/14, 2/26/14, 3/12/14, 3/26/14, 4/9/14, 4/23/14, 5/7/14 @ 1:30 - 3:30
Location: Northeast Elem. School, Goose Lake
Costs:
$340 for 2 Drake graduate credits
$200 for 2 Relicensure credits
no cost for Audit/no credit option
This course is appropriate for paraeducators and those that hold the substitute authorization license to take for license renewal purposes.

           PRESS Training: Data Based Decision Making, Classwide Interventions, and Tier 2 Diagnostics

This session is FULL.

PRESS is a comprehensive approach to early literacy developed by the Minnesota Center for Reading Research (MCRR) in partnership with Minneapolis Schools, Minnesota Reading Corps, and theTarget Corporation. The key pillars of the PRESS multi-tiered system of supports framework:
1) quality core instruction
2) data-driven decision making
3) tiered interventions
4) professional learning.

Join us for an in-depth training on the PRESS framework with specific ideas that support teachers and instructional coaches to learn class-wide intervention protocols.

The one-day workshop is intended for elementary school or district staff (administrators, grade-level team leaders, literacy coaches/coordinators, and reading interventionists). This workshop will cover classwide interventions, data-based decision making, and the diagnostic process for Tier 2.

You may purchase a PRESS Intervention and Assessment Manual upon registration or at the workshop for $50.

For more information on PRESS, please visit PRESS .

Contact: Cindy Lewis, MBAEA
Instructor: Kathy Patton, PRESS Literacy Coordinator with the University of Minnesota
FULL
Date: 12/3/15
Time: 8:00 - 3:15, lunch on your own
Location: Mississippi Bend AEA, Bettendorf
Registration closes 12/1/15.

Costs:
$125.00, includes book
(Fee was lowered from $175 reg fee and $50 book fee)

           Rigorous Curriculum Design: Planning for the Iowa Core ELA Standards

This course is open only to those approved by your district curriculum director and AEA ELA team. Space is limited to 60 educators. The registration password may be obtained from your district.

Participants will investigate a rigorous curriculum design model with the intent of developing a year-long K-12 scope and sequence of the Iowa Core English Language Arts standards. In addition, participants will begin grade-level curriculum development which includes unwrapping standards into teachable concepts and skills, developing essential understandings and essential questions, creating end-of-unit assessments, and creating unit pre-assessments. This will lead to future work: the development of rigorous, standards-based lessons.

Participants will also use Smarter Balanced Assessment documents and items to help guide the development of the curriculum. Participants will work in grade-level teams to further focus their work. Participation is by application.

Registration for this course will close on May 28, 2013. Registrations processed after the close date of the course will be charged an additional $25 late registration fee.

You can access the course syllabus by clicking on the following link and searching for the course title Course Syllabus

All assignments are due by 11/15/13; grades posted 12/20/13.

Instructors: Ann Craig, Kathy Learn, Nicole Peterson
Session No.: 5798
Dates: 6/10/2013, 6/11/2013, 6/12/2013, 6/13/2013, 6/14/2013, 9/25/2013, 9/27/2013, 10/14/2013, 10/15/2013
Time: 8:30-3:30; 1 hour lunch on your own
Location: June dates to be held at Central Clinton High School, DeWitt; remaining dates at the Mississippi Bend AEA, Bettendorf

Costs:
$180 for 1 Drake graduate credit
$350 for 2 Drake graduate credits
$520 for 3 Drake graduate credits
$110 for 1 Relicensure credit
$210 for 2 Relicensure credits
$310 for 3 Relicensure credits
$10 for audit/no credit
The time commitment and work are the same for one, two, or three credits.

           Second Chance Reading

Second Chance Reading addresses reading deficits for secondary students who otherwise would struggle with the demands of the secondary curriculum. It is designed by Dr. Beverly Showers and has been implemented across the Iowa since 2005.

Second Chance Reading focuses on comprehension skills but also targets vocabulary development and fluency in both fiction and non-fiction textual materials. The course is designed specifically for middle and high school students who are reading below grade level.

The program incorporates several strands:
1. Extensive independent reading at students’ recreational level
2. Vocabulary development at both age-appropriate and recreational reading levels
3. Comprehension instruction for both lower- and higher-order comprehension tasks in fiction and non-fiction materials
4. Fluency instruction and monitoring
5. Writing as an assist to comprehension

Please refer to the syllabus for list of materials needed prior to the start of the course. Please verify with the AEA that the course will run before making the purchases. 563-344-6481
Course Syllabus

Instructor: Rita Butlett
Session 6930
Dates: 6/13/16, 6/14/16, 6/15/16, 9/27/16, 1/24/17
Time: 9:00-4:00
Location: No. Scott Jr. High on Monday, address: 502 S 5th Street, Eldrige, IA 52748 (563) 285-8272
(Instructor will let registrants know if future classes changes location to PV Jr. High)
Costs:
$360 for 2 Drake Credits
$220 for 2 Relicensure credits
$120 for audit/no credit

The district will be responsible for ordering reading comprehension diagnostic materials, formative assessments, and classroom book libraries as recommended by the instructor.

For more information about Drake Univ. EDMA credit visit Drake Credit Info on the MBAEA Professional Development webpage.

           Understanding and Implementing the Workshop Framework

This course is open to No. Scott CSD teachers only.

This course is designed to support classroom teachers in their implementation of the workshop famework in the areas of reading and writing. Participants will dig deeper in the work of Linda Dorn, Carla Soffos and Tammy Jones using the texts Teaching for Deep Comprehension, Apprenticeship in Literacy, Interventions that Work, Scaffolding Young Writers, and Shaping Literate Minds in order to develop a deeper understanding of the importance of using the workshop model as an effective way to differentiate instruction for all students at the Tier 1 level. There will be a focus on mini-lessons, guided reading, literature discussions, one-on-one conferencing, whole group sharing, and choosing appropriate mentor texts. Participants will also look closely at using student work and the Iowa Core ELA standards as the grouund work for lesson planning.

Participants will use the newly revised North Scott Unit Planning Organizers (originally created by AEA consultants and teachers) to choose mentor texts and plan mini-lessons within the workshop framework. They will work collaboratively with others in the class, specifically ones that are at or close to the same grade level if possible.

Participants taking the course for Drake credit will also participate in additional group work, implementation of the Workshop Framework within the classroom setting, additional readings, data collection, and a presentation. Completion date is October 16, 2015.

Note: Principals are encouraged to attend with no registration required.

Course Syllabus

Instructor: Katie Burbridge
Location: Alan Shepard Elementary School
Dates: 8/12/15, 8/13/15
Time: 8:00 - 4:00

Costs:
$120 1 Drake EDMA Credit
$40 1 Relicensure Credit
$0 for audit/no credit option

For more information about Drake Univ. EDMA credit visit Drake Credit Info on the MBAEA Professional Development webpage.

           Visual Phonics: An Essential Strategy for Literacy

Visual Phonics is a multisensory strategy that aligns with brain-based learning & teaching. It has proven to be an effective method for acquisition of phonological & phonemic awareness and phonics skills - foundational literacy skills that are necessary for success in reading, spelling & writing. The Visual Phonics strategy can be used in General Education classrooms, preschool settings, elementary & secondary Special Education programs, ELL programs, speech & language programs, classrooms and itinerant services for Deaf & Hard of Hearing, and adult literacy programs. Visual Phonics is also an effective tool for helping students with speech disorders to develop/modify speech sound production, beginning as early as age 2. Since the Visual Phonics system is based on the sounds of English, teacher and student use of Visual Phonics hand shapes (which emulate how sounds are produced in the mouth) provides visual & kinesthetic inputs in the process of mapping sound-to-print . . . a critical skill for literacy development and proficiency. Application related to MTSS and Common Core State Standards will be also be addressed.

This course is appropriate for Paraeducator recertification; it is recommended that teacher/para teams attend together or the Visual Phonics strategy is used in the school.

Instructor: Dave Krupke
Session Number: 7504
Dates & Times:
3/10/18, 4/28/18 @ 8-4:30
Location: Mississippi Bend AEA, Bettendorf

Costs:
$170 1 Drake EDMA grad credit
$90 1 Relicensure credit
$90 Audit/no credit
$10 additional fee for CEUs (Must register for audit or credit AND CEUs if you need CEUs); please check with your licensing agency to verify the appropriateness of course/workshop content. A CEU certificate will be provided after the completion of the course/workshop.

Registration closes 3/5/18.

For more information about Drake Univ. EDMA credit visit Drake Credit Info on the MBAEA Professional Development webpage.