Clarification: Iowa Core Teacher Quality Opportunity for Heartland AEA Staff

(Please note: Eligible staff may take one or both days for TQ pay if they are off contract. The rate will be $250 for each day.) 

Heartland AEA will be offering an Iowa Core Teacher Quality (TQ) course for staff on June 11 and 13. The course is called “High Impact Collaborative Structures to Implement ELA Iowa Core and MTSS/RtI.” Even though this is being offered as a two-day course, staff can choose to attend only one day. 

The purpose of these two days is to address how high impact collaborative structures can support elementary buildings in successful implementation of the ELA Iowa Core standards through a Multi-Tiered System of Support framework to address the needs of all students (lowest performing to highest performing). 

Day 1 will focus on Organizational Leadership and Structures (functions of leadership team, consensus and collaborative culture, data routines and assessment literacy). Day 2 will focus on Universal Instruction and Implementation of the ELA Iowa Core Standards. 

These workshops are open to all staff eligible for TQ money. This course is being funded from the Iowa Core TQ funding stream (different from the TQ funds used to pay for classes and study groups), so if you already took a TQ class during the 2013-14 school year, you are eligible to take this course and receive TQ money. AEA staff members must be off contract to receive TQ money. Staff may sign up to attend one or both days and the reimbursement rate will be $250 for each day. If one or both of the June dates doesn’t work in your calendar, we will offer the workshops again in the fall. Districts will also be able to pay a fee and register for the workshop. 

TQ Registration Information: 
(Heartland AEA staff will be able to register without paying the fee.) 
High Impact Collaborative Structures to Implement ELA Iowa Core and MTSS/RtI 
June 11 & 13 (credit is available) 
Choose this option if you are attending both days. The system will not charge you the credit fee if you sign up and don’t want credit. 
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Organizational Leadership and Structures 
June 11 only (no credit)
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ELA Iowa Core - Universal, Targeted and Intensive Instruction 
June 13 only (no credit) 
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If you have any questions, contact Kevin Fangman, Executive Director of District Services, at kfangman@heartlandaea.org.