Northwest AEA Preschool Newsletter
March 2022
Joyce Vermeer
Brenda Jenkins
Shelley Conover
Your communication hub!
This month, know that what you do is appreciated! As the month kicks off, you might be interested in knowing that March 7-11 is National School Breakfast Week. Let's make sure each one of our students begins the day with happy tummies!!
You might also be interested in an opportunity to join a Round Table discussion later this month. It is designed with you in mind.
EnJOY! ~Joyce, Brenda & Shelley
The Power of GOLD
Early Childhood Curriculum
Intentional Teacher 2022
MoveMindfully Workshop
Kathy Flaminio, the founder and trainer of MoveMindfully, will be coming to Northwest AEA in person this coming April! REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS APRIL 6TH!!
April 20 will be Day 1: MoveMindfully Foundation Training: Introduction to Mindfulness, Movement, and Social Emotional Learning
(this is the workshop that has been offered 2 times previously, via Zoom).
April 21 will be Day 2: MoveMindfully Foundation Training: Trauma-Responsive Practices (new offering at our AEA!)
*Prerequisite for Day 2 → MoveMindfully Foundation Training: Introduction to Mindfulness, Movement and Social Emotional Learning (Day 1).
Click HERE to learn more, click on the image to register.
GOLD checkpoints: an ongoing dilemma
- Iowa Code 279.60 .
- Letter sent to administrators in July, 2021 from Kimberly Villotti, Iowa Department of Education.
- Iowa GOLD Procedures Manual
GOLD can be used as both a formative & summative assessment. If you are using GOLD to make data-based decisions to instruct your students, then all three checkpoints are necessary. There are many reasons for doing three; discuss them with your EC & ECSE consultants and coaches.
If you are only using the Spring checkpoint, then you are using GOLD only as a summative form of assessment and are not using it to drive your instruction or make data-based decisions. You are using it as a reporting form only. If this is the case, you will want to beef up your Assessment Plans and have other means of assessing and monitoring your students in order to make informed, data-based instructional decisions.
More to come...
February 11, 2022 EC SCT Summary
You're invited to a Round Table
IGDIs help desk
Autism Help Desk
Tips of the Month!!! See Below
HEALTH: Dim light can disrupt sleep
STEM: STEMIE- Winter Wonderland ideas
MATH: Games from Young Mathematicians
PD opportunities in the state of iowa & internationally (see below)
2022 international early childhood inclusion institute
If you plan to travel to Chapel Hill, NC for the conference, please visit the Logistics page on our website for information on hotels and accessing the Friday Center.
You can register for the Inclusion Institute here.
Science of Reading virtual workshops
Attend a Science of Reading Virtual Workshop for Emerging (PK-1) or Developing (1-12) Readers. Click HERE for more information.
save the date: Iowa Education Conference, June 6-9
You’ll want to save the date for the June 6-9 Iowa Education Conference held in Des Moines.
The Iowa Education Conference (IEC) 2022 is designed to support school leadership teams, educators and their organizational partners to prepare all learners for their future at every step of their educational journey.
Formerly the Special Education Symposium and the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) June Institute, the IEC seeks to align statewide efforts to support Iowa’s school districts, area education agencies (AEAs) and partnering agencies and organizations in the provision of leadership, instructional services and other supports to promote the success of all Iowa learners.
Content strands across the event include college and career readiness, early childhood, leadership, literacy, mathematics and social-emotional-behavioral health. Each day has a different focus.
save the date: Trauma Informed Care Conference, June 7-8
12th Annual Psychological Trauma & Juvenile Justice Conference
Where: Holiday Inn Airport
Des Moines, Iowa
Confirmed speakers:
Dr. Dispesh Navsaria
Trasie Adams Topple
Kelly M. Clougher, PhD
George Ake III, PhD
For more information please visit: www.traumainformedcareproject.org
For questions about registration please contact Nicole Byrd or Nancy Boggess at: ticconference@orchardplace.org
Northwest AEA Early Childhood Consultants
Joyce, Brenda & Shelley
Email: bjenkins@nwaea.org
Website: https://www.nwaea.org/
Location: 1520 Morningside Avenue, Sioux City, IA, USA
Phone: 712.222.6122