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What's NEW
The Department of Education has recently released updated guidance around the Early Literacy Implementation: 3rd Grade Retention. Click here to read more.
In November, a small team from each district in GHAEA had the opportunity to be trained on key components of Iowa's new state assessment: Smarter Balanced Assessment system. There is an expectation that all teachers, administrators and supports will, in turn, be trained by their district teams by the summer of 2017. The Department of Education developed a talking points document to provide overall information about SBAC.
What's DUE
Please consider providing feedback on the Draft Iowa Social Studies Standards. The survey is designed to obtain the opinions and comments of educators and the public to the draft standards created by the Social Studies Standards Writing Team. Follow this link to complete the survey.January 23, 2017: Register today for Celebrating Iowa Successes- Early Literacy Symposium to hear from Kathy Patton, PRESS Literacy Coordinator; Scott Slechta, 2016 Iowa Teacher of the Year, and Deborah Reed, Director of the Iowa Reading Research Center. Topics to include: effective intervention components, reading skills for information and literary text, teaching spelling to students with reading difficulties, realigning Literacy Block based on data and providing a guaranteed and viable curriculum. The symposium will take place at the Iowa Events Center from 9:00-4:00.
