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

• 30,000 students• 80 square miles• $450 million budget• Serving: 1 district, 68 schools, 1

board

Perspectives…Des Moines Public Schools

Gary Astor

•Fort Dodge•Alta•Gilmore City-Bradgate•Newell-Fonda•Pocahontas Area•Odebolt-Arthur•Schaller-Crestland•Storm Lake

Steve Jimmerson

Rick Morain

•East Sac County•Greene County•MNW•P-C•Prairie Valley•South Central Calhoun

Todd Lundgren

Sue Brown

Pat Brown

•Eagle Grove•Fort Dodge•SEW-Grand•Stratford

•Algona•Clarion-Goldfield-Dows•Emmetsburg•Humboldt•LuVerne•North Union•Titonka

Dean Saunders

•Albert City-Truesdale•Clay Central/Everly•Harris-Lake Park•Laurens-Marathon•Ruthven/Ayrshire•Sioux Central•Spencer•Twin Rivers•West Bend-Mallard

•Estherville Lincoln Central•Graettinger-Terril•North Kossuth•Okoboji•Spirit Lake

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

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

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

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

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

MEDIA

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.

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.

PRINT & PRODUCTION

PLAEA Video Suite Banners Posters Planners Letterhea

d Stationery Envelopes Cards Forms Yearbooks

Programs Newsletter

s Calendars Tickets Handbook

s Journals Certificate

s Signs

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!!

OUR FOCUS - 2014-15

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.

WE ARE READY…

“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 UniversitySept. 12, 1962

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