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By the numbers…

30,000 students 8,000 square miles $30 million budget 270 staff members Serving: 40 Districts 11 Non-Public Schools 2 prisons, 2 juvenile facilities, 1 behavior school. By the numbers…. Perspectives…Des Moines Public Schools. 30,000 students 80 square miles $450 million budget

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By the numbers…

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  1. 30,000 students • 8,000 square miles • $30 million budget • 270 staff members • Serving: • 40 Districts • 11 Non-Public Schools • 2 prisons, 2 juvenile facilities, 1 behavior school By the numbers…

  2. Perspectives…Des Moines Public Schools • 30,000 students • 80 square miles • $450 million budget • Serving: 1 district, 68 schools, 1 board

  3. Albert City-Truesdale • Clay Central/Everly • Harris-Lake Park • Laurens-Marathon • Ruthven/Ayrshire • Sioux Central • Spencer • Twin Rivers • West Bend-Mallard • Eagle Grove • Fort Dodge • SEW-Grand • Stratford Dean Saunders • East Sac County • Greene County • MNW • P-C • Prairie Valley • South Central Calhoun • Estherville Lincoln Central • Graettinger-Terril • North Kossuth • Okoboji • Spirit Lake Rick Morain Todd Lundgren Pat Brown • Alta • Gilmore City-Bradgate • Newell-Fonda • Pocahontas Area • Odebolt-Arthur • Schaller-Crestland • Storm Lake • Fort Dodge • Algona • Clarion-Goldfield-Dows • Emmetsburg • Humboldt • LuVerne • North Union • Titonka Gary Astor Steve Jimmerson Sue Brown

  4. Our work – what we do Special Education (80%) • Closing the gap; getting RESULTS • Expanding our mission Educational Services (10%) • Focus on early literacy (C4K) • Iowa Core thru Conceptual Teaching & Learning Media & Technology (10%) • Resources!! • Integrating technology into instruction

  5. Special education • Special education is specially designed instruction, support, and services provided to students with an identified disability requiring an individually designed instructional program to meet their unique learning needs. • The purpose of special education is to enable students to successfully develop to their fullest potential. Services are provided for children birth through the age of 21 and can be accessed through requests made by parents or school personnel

  6. Special education teams & services • Academic strategists • Audiologists • Behavior strategists • Occupational therapists • Physical therapists • Speech-language pathologists • School psychologist • School social workers • Special Education consultants • Vision • Autism • Assistive Technology • Behavior • Brain Injury • Early Childhood • Transition

  7. EDucAtional Services Instructional support services include a wide variety of services and consultation. which include: • Curriculum • Literacy • Math • Science • Data • Iowa Core • Leadership development • Professional development

  8. AEA Pd online Learning Modules: stand-alone, compliance-oriented • Mandatory child abuse reporting • OSHA compliance • Section 504 Self-Paced Courses - designed for educators who want to start and complete a course on their own schedule. • License renewal • Substitute authorization • Paraeducator renewal AEAs support… • 39 districts (2014-15) • Adult Learning • Collaborative Culture • Communication • Content/Pedagogy/Assessment • Systems Thinking • Data • Organizational Leadership

  9. Any educator in PLAEA & NWAEA can check-out resources from the two AEAs. There are 89,823 items in the collection with 139,929 copies. (Value = $7 million.) Materials distributed amongst Fort Dodge, Sioux City and Sioux Center - about 56,000 miles a year. Weekly delivery to all school and AEA buildings for a total of 130 stops - about 32,000 miles a year. Media

  10. Iowa AEA Online is a virtual library that provides no-cost access to 14 high-quality, web-based resources for accredited public and non-public PreK-12 schools. Students and staff have access at school and at home. Iowa AEA Online is funded and supported by Iowa's AEAs. • Magazines • Newspapers • eBooks • Encyclopedias - English and Spanish • Videos- Over 9,000 educational videos from top educational producers. • Photos, Music & Clipart • Software Training • Plus literary writings, dictionaries, maps, almanacs, biographies, web links, government documents, historic documents, information on weather, health, careers, business and more.

  11. Print & production PLAEA Video Suite • Banners • Posters • Planners • Letterhead • Stationery • Envelopes • Cards • Forms • Yearbooks • Programs • Newsletters • Calendars • Tickets • Handbooks • Journals • Certificates • Signs

  12. technology • Infrastructure - tools • E-mail hosting • E-mail spam & virus filtering • Computer recycling • Network planning • Remote back-up • Website hosting • Integration – instruction • Interactive • Personalized • Timely • On-going • Focused on learning, not the technology • FUN!!

  13. 1. Literacy • Each child will be a skilled reader as measured by proficiency on the Iowa Assessments (current proficiency 73.4%) • Our youngest children will experience an increase in the amount of time that adults talk to them and increase the amount of time adults read to them. 2. Closing the Achievement Gap • We will reduce the gap between children in special education and general education as well as any other gaps that exist between subgroups. • 100% of our children will achieve one year’s growth in one year’s time. Our Focus - 2014-15

  14. “We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.” President John F. Kennedy, Rice University Sept. 12, 1962 We are ready…

  15. Connect with prairie lakes aea twitter.com/plaea plaea.org facebook.com/plaea

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