Energy Modules Added to the Student Personalized Learning System

Today we have student guest bloggers.  Alex Zarkowski, Jack Sieleman and Dakotah Herr represent their teams from Waukee High School’s Aspiring Professional Experiences Program (APEX) who have been working on creating energy content  for teachers and students in AEA Learning Online's Student Personalized Learning System. AEA Learning Online thanks leads Alex Zarkowski, Jack Sieleman and Dakotah Herr,  their teams and their teacher Tyler Wright for their hard work on these modules.

Top row, left to right: Esmer Sefic, Alex Zarkowski, Jack Sieleman, Nick Murphy

Middle row, left to right: Tanner Stumpf, Dakotah Herr, Jared Johnson, Tyler Wright

Bottom Row, left to right: Chris Dudley, Rileigh Dodd, Josh Eubanks, Matt Huck

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The Next Generation Energy class of Waukee APEX (Aspiring Professional Experience) is proud to share with you the work we have done on energy placed in the Student Personalized Learning System.  Our group has created content that educates students about the following types of energy.
Students can now check out modules

• Nuclear Fusion: The sun is the ultimate producer of energy, creating so much that it makes Earth’s production of energy look miniscule. How does it do this? But more importantly, can we somehow replicate it on Earth to help our energy crisis? In this module, you will learn about the Process of Fusion, the development of machines such as a Tokamak and the Large Hadron Collider, and of a project called ITER that will be the bases for understanding the power of Nuclear Fusion along with harnessing it on Earth.
• Energy Storage: As our society continues to progress into the silicon age, the demand for energy is increasing exponentially. As engineers worldwide develop and improve renewable and alternative energy production methods, dependence on a constant source of energy is becoming evermore crucial to avoiding chaos. In this module, you will learn about the technology of how energy is stored, as well as discuss a variety of different applications and options for energy storage.
• Consumer Level Alternative Energy: Have you ever considered how much it costs for your everyday appliances to run? What about the fossil fuels that are emitted? In this module you will learn about about two of the main consumer level alternative energies, wind and solar. You will also gain an understanding of tax incentives and return on investment through web based learning and different interactives within this module. Consumers are an essential part of the ever changing alternative energy movement. 
   

  
To learn more about these modules, you can visit http://learning.aeak12online.org/ click on catalog then Science and the tab Statewide.

Teachers at Mississippi Bend AEA Complete Blending Flipping Cohort

Congratulations to these teachers from Davenport and North Scott who have completed the 4 courses in the Blending Flipping in your Classroom Cohort.   Left to Right are Robert Reppert (MBAEA Instructional Technologist), Kristi Schreffler, Bryan Braack, Tifini Foglesong, Joan Walton, Emily Meyer, Heather Whitman, Mike Radue, Noel Hansen, Shawn Dykstra, Lori Blocker, Jennifer Van Fleet, Marguerite Dasso, Kimberly Foley-Sharp and Denise Krefting( AEA Learning Online Blend Flip Instructor).  Not pictured Kathrine Rogers and Melissa Wicklund ( AEA Learning Online Blend Flip Instructor- although she is on the monitor in the background.) .

These classes which are offered at several AEAs and even as PD for school districts (such as Davenport) are : Blending/ Flipping Your Classroom 1: Introduction (Elementary and a Secondary version), Blending/Flipping 2- Blended Instruction (Elementary and a Secondary version), Blending/Flipping Your Classroom 3: Designing Online Lessons and Blending/Flipping 4: Activities and Assessment.  They are offered for license renewal credit, graduate credit or no credit depending on what credit type the participant is interested in.  6 of these credits also qualify for the Drake Online Teaching Certificate.

If you are interested in learning more about the Blending Flipping in your Classroom Cohort you can check out this site or contact Denise Krefting, Melissa Wicklund or Craig Mohr at AEA Learning Online.

Professional Learning Course Boosts Technology Integration at AdairCasey/GuthrieCenter

In the 2015-16 school year, the Guthrie Center Community School District piloted personalized professional learning, allowing teachers to give input on how they spent their inservice time. Last year, in their first year of whole-grade sharing junior high and high school with Adair-Casey, all PK-12 teachers in both districts had the opportunity to choose the focus of their professional learning.

Their personalized learning plan had to be tied into a district or building goal, be collaborative and be approved by the curriculum director. The professional learning menu included an AEA Learning Online course, book study, site-based technology integration course and standards alignment. Because both districts have actively supported the infusion of technology in the classroom and have looked for ways to support teachers in these endeavors, approximately 2/3 of teachers in both districts enrolled in the tech integration course.

Your district can also support personalized professional learning with your staff using AEA Learning Online's teacher training system (as Adair Casey/Guthrie Center is doing). Contact Deborah Cleveland for assistance.

Life Saving E-curriculum Now Available

Healthy Kids’ Act requires that prior to graduation, a student in a school district or accredited nonpublic district must complete a course in CPR.

AEA Learning Online and the American Red Cross have partnered to bring this lifesaving e-curriculum to students across the state.

The two courses currently available include:

• Adult First Aid/CPR/AED Training
• Adult and Pediatric First Aid/CPR/AED Training

For more information about how to access and use this contact click here or contact cmohr@aealearningonline.org.

For information about the Iowa Healthy Kids Act CPR requirement, click here.

Indianola Teachers Complete Blending Flipping Cohort

Congratulations to these Indianola teachers who have completed the 4 courses in the Blending Flipping in your Classroom Cohort.   Left to Right are Zach Kaczmarek, Ali Sauter (technology integrationist and co-teacher for the Indianola BF Cohort), Christina Fitzpatrick, Lisa Butler-Msuya, Amy Edwards, Kim Grissom, Leigh Bellville, Kyle Berg, Jessica Hazelton and Denise Krefting( AEA Learning Online Blend Flip Instructor)

These classes which are offered at several AEAs and even as PD for school districts (such as Indianola) are : Blending/ Flipping Your Classroom 1: Introduction (Elementary and a Secondary version), Blending/Flipping 2- Blended Instruction (Elementary and a Secondary version), Blending/Flipping Your Classroom 3: Designing Online Lessons and Blending/Flipping 4: Activities and Assessment.  They are offered for license renewal credit, graduate credit or no credit depending on what credit type the participant is interested in.  6 of these credits also qualify for the Drake Online Teaching Certificate.

If you are interested in learning more about the Blending Flipping in your Classroom Cohort you can check out this site or contact Denise Krefting, Melissa Wicklund or Craig Mohr at AEA Learning Online.

Iowa Science Coaches Network

Who We Are?

We are a network of instructional coaches who are committed to supporting science teaching in learning that is focused on engaging students in Science and Engineering Practices and Crosscutting Concepts.

3 Reasons to Become a Member

1. Learn about how to support teachers in ways that are specific to the science standards and the Science and Engineering Practices/Crosscutting Concepts.
2. Access to resources related to coaching and providing professional learning to teachers
3. Ongoing dialog among coaches focused on timely and relevant questions posed by network members.

Want to find out more?

To learn more about the community check out our website here or follow us on Twitter @SSS

Evan Abbey Receives 2017 ITEC State Technology Leadership Award

Congratulations to Evan Abbey, project director, AEA Learning Online, who received the 2017 Iowa

Technology and Education Connection (ITEC) State Technology Leadership Award during the ITEC Conference opening ceremonies held on Monday, Oct. 15, 2017. The conference is held at the Iowa Events Center in Des Moines.    

Evan has been the project director for AEA Learning Online since February 2010. His background includes positions as a Professional Learning and Leadership consultant at Heartland AEA; high school principal, Grinnell CSD; director of technology, Howard-Winneshiek CSD; high school language arts teacher, Postville CSD; and ms/hs language arts teacher, North Winneshiek CSD.

AEA Learning Online offers online learning opportunities, which include Professional Learning for educators and K-12 Online Resources for students.

Abbey said, “AEA Learning Online prides itself in its excellent staff who have a reputation for working with districts to creatively meet their needs.”

Congratulations, Evan!

Tap into IPTV LearningMedia

IPTV has hundreds of resources that you can use with students. To assist you in tapping into all that IPTV has to offer we have partnered with IPTV to create the PBS LearningMedia Overview. 

IPTV and AEA Learning Online are excited to offer the "PBS LearningMedia Overview" online module. This overview module introduces teachers to the great tools and resources available through the free-online service, PBS LearningMedia. This module is free for all teachers in public and non-public schools and participants are able to earn a certificate upon completion.  To access this module:

1 Go to http://training.aealearningonline.org

2 Log in

3 Select “catalog”

4 Search “IPTV”

5 Select “register”

New Content on Iowa History Added to the Student Personalized Learning System

With the updates to the Iowa Core Social Studies standards to include Iowa History throughout K-12 classes, authors and educators Sandra Kessler Host and Dorothy Kessler Engstrom have graciously offered the content in their books on Iowa History and the Rural School System to be added to the Student Personalized Learning System and AEA Learning Online's OER Commons hub for teachers and students in the State of Iowa.  In addition to their work "Collections of the Iowa Rural Schools Museum of Odebolt 1870-1950" and "Iowa's Unsung Prairie Transformation to Farms and One Room Schools 1870-1900 " previously shared with you as content in the SPLS and OER,  we now have added "Iowa History: A New Look at Iowa's One-Room Schools" and "Iowa History: Iowa Rural Settlement".

 

In the module "Iowa History: Iowa Rural Settlement" students will learn more about the history of the settlement of Iowa, where immigrants came from and how they moved westward and the futuristic thinking of leaders in the State.  There is no teacher guide for this content like there is for other content developed by Sandra and Dorthy






In the module "Iowa's Unsung Prairie Transformation to Farms and One Room Schools 1870-1900 " students will learn more about Iowa's One Room Schools. This book provides in-depth details and stories of Iowa’s highly successful Iowa (Common) Rural School System (1858-1966) and how it anchored the huge farm settlement (1870-1900) and helped shape the character of Iowa.  A teacher guide for using this content can be found in the Teacher Training System and AEA Learning Online's OER Commons Hub.

You can find any of this content in our Student Personalized Learning Center by logging in, clicking on Social Studies/History, clicking on Statewide and looking for the content.  Click on the icon to the far right of the title to explore the modules.

If you wish to use these with students or have any questions please contact Denise Krefting (dkrefting@aealearningonline.org) Craig Mohr (cmohr@aealearningonline.org) or Melissa Wicklund (mwicklund@aealearningonline.org).
 

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If you have any other suggestions please let us know. Remember you can also create your own modules in our system. If you are interested in this, please contact us: Denise Krefting, Craig Mohr or Melissa Wicklund. If you or others that you are aware of who might be interested in getting this information on the Student Personalized Learning System  please sign up for this newsletter at http://eepurl.com/ccWi45

If you are a teacher in Iowa and looking to blend, flip or teach online, you may be interested in our Online Learning for Iowa Teachers (OLLIE) Community. 

 

Here you will be able to ask questions of others in the community, find experts, explore resources, learn more about Softchalk, find out about professional development opportunities, hear success stories from other schools, learn more about instructional design in your online environment and find and share research about online, flipped and blended learning.

 

Check it out and join.

 

 

Changes to the AEA OER Commons Hub

You may have used the OER Common site and AEA PD Online's OER Commons hub to find free and open source collections including content for Iowa teachers to use in your online classrooms.  AEA PD Online is undergoing a name change this fall as we are much more than professional development.  Our new name will be AEA Learning Online.
As a result, some of the links to our resources will also change. Our OER Hub is one of these.  The new link to AEA Learning's OER Commons Hub is https://www.oercommons.org/hubs/aeaonline

Here is some information on OER Commons and the Hub in case you are not aware of what this is and what it can do for you:

• What is it?

•  How to navigate AEA Learning Online's OER Hub

• How to create an account in the system and add yourself to a group (Video)

If you haven't been there in awhile, check it out. Find resources that you can use, and remix to meet the needs of your classroom.

If you have any questions or thoughts you can email any of our K-12 team: Denise Krefting, Melissa Wicklund and Craig Mohr.

Please note that our emails are also changing to @aealearningonline.org .

New Self-Paced Relicensure Courses Available

AEA PD Online is pleased to offer three new self-paced credit opportunities for Iowa educators. These courses are perfect for hard working educators because you can start at any time and complete the courses on your own schedule.

Methods in Elementary Fine Arts

This self-paced course is available for Drake Graduate credit (1 hour), and is often a course of deficiency for out-of-state teachers needing to license through the BoEE.

Participants in this course will learn strategies for integrating visual and performing arts into their elementary curriculum based on the National Arts Standards. The term "art" includes: artists, art techniques, art history, careers that utilize some form of creativity, and technology integration. Teachers will create lesson plans and learn techniques that can be easily and immediately implemented in their classrooms. A database of art projects and ideas will be created by participants that can be utilized in a variety of subject areas.

Implementing the English Language Proficiency (ELP) Standards

This self-paced course is available for one relicensure credit. This course was built to help provide a credit opportunity for teachers who have been working with the English Language Proficiency (ELP) Standards as part of their districts professional development. 

Teachers who have already completed part or all of the ELP standards training modules can use those towards completion of this course. The outcomes for this course are:

• Participants will demonstrate understanding the ELP standards and the connection to the Iowa Core.
• Participants will understand the student performance level descriptors for each proficiency level and connect those to the ELP standards and student language needs.
• Participants will learn and apply the language task analysis process to an instructional lesson.
• Participants will understand how to adapt a lesson’s language demands based on the language proficiency levels of the students in their classroom.
• Participants understand how to adapt classroom formative assessments based on the language proficiency levels of the students in their classroom.

This course is built from the content provided by the ELPA21 consortium and Stanford University as well as content developed for Iowa educators. Participants will to complete all of the ELP Standards online modules, supporting English Learners (ELs) module, submit an example of task analysis with lesson description and accommodations, and submit a reflection on current practice in supporting ELs. This link provides answers to frequently asked questions about this course.

Supersub 101

This self-paced course directly geared towards substitute teachers. It is available for one relicensure credit for substitute licenses. 

Are you interested in substitute teaching? Or maybe you’re already a substitute teacher and could use some new tips and tricks? This course is for you, the superheroes of schools! Through self-guided lessons, you'll learn new ideas and be refreshed in your sub super powers by focusing on ethics, diversity, classroom management, instructional strategies, the nuts and bolts of substitute teaching, and tips and tricks of the trade. The modules are designed to balance philosophy with practical tools you can add to your toolbox to use right away. This course is specifically for substitute teachers. 

AEA PD Online continues to offer these self-paced courses as well.

• Using Iowa AEA Online's Resources (1 license renewal credit)

• Digital Citizenship Course (1 license renewal credit)

• Google Apps 101 (1 license renewal credit)

• Universal Constructs (1 license renewal credit)

• The Iowa Framework for School Counselors (1 license renewal credit)

• Para-educator Roles and Responsibilities (1 license renewal credit)

• Personalized Learning (1 license renewal credit)

• Financial Literacy (1 license renewal credit)

• The Practicing Educator (1 license renewal credit)

• Blended & Online Learning Self-Paced Course (2 license renewal credits)

• The Developer's Course (2 License renewal credits)

• Elements: Project Based Approaches (1 license renewal credit)

• 7 Second Coaching (1 license renewal credit)

• Coaching Authorization Course

• Social Media (1 license renewal credit)

• The Exceptional Learner (1 license renewal or 1 college/graduate credit)

SoftChalk Lesson of the Week

Congratulations Dan Leete your lesson has been selected as SoftChalk's lesson of the week!

Dan is a 9-12 art teacher at Sumner-Fredricksburg High School/Middle School. The focus of Dan's lesson is on color and includes a variety of interactive activities for students to engage in when learning about primary, secondary, complementary, and tertiary colors.

Check out Dan's lesson.



Interested in learning about how you can use SoftChalk to create online content for students? Find out more here or contact Deborah Cleveland at dcleveland@aeapdonline.org.

Get Ready for a New Name

A new name, a new look, same great services and products for Iowa educators and students.

AEA PD Online will be changing our name to AEA Learning Online. Beginning on October 1, we will be known as AEA Learning Online. This new name better reflects all of the products and services that  we provide to educators and K-12 students.


This means a change in our logo (seen above) as well as new links to the websites.In an effort to streamline this process, our current links will automatically redirect users to the new links.

As we move forward with the transition we will share out the details via our current and our new social media accounts as well as post updates on our websites.

If you have any questions about the transition, please let us know (Evan Abbey at eabbey@aeapdonline.org) or Deborah Cleveland (dcleveland@aeapdonline.org).

Thanks a Million

AEA PD Online is excited to announce that we have served our millionth completed training!

Our millionth training was completed by Tyler Rodgers, interim elementary principal at Harlan and Salem Elementary Schools in the Mt. Pleasant CSD. During 2017-2018, Tyler will be returning to work at the high school as the MOC/work experience coordinator.

This accomplishment represents millions of hours of professional learning and reflects Iowa educators' dedication to ensuring all students experience high quality learning opportunities and environments.

Since AEA PD Online’s inception in 2011, we have provided Iowa educators with online access to professional learning opportunities that are focused on relevant and timely topics. As a statewide agency, we have observed tremendous growth in how educators have been using our system.

To learn more about the professional learning opportunities on our Teacher Personalized Learning System

• Go to https://trainings.aeapdonline.org
• Contact Evan Abbey, program director, (eabby@aeapdonline.org)
• Watch the video below

Learn Best Practices for Blending and Flipping your Classroom

The first of four courses to learn best practices for teaching in a blended/flipped or online method is offered this summer at several AEAs.  The first course is 3 days face to face for 1 license renewal credit.

  Heartland AEA: July 11-July 13, 2017 Learn More/Signup https://prodev.aeapdonline.org/4DCGI/22039999991802INV&*
  Great Prairie AEA: July 17-July 19, 2017  Learn More/Signup https://prodev.aeapdonline.org/4DCGI/22039999991801INV&*
  Mississippi Bend AEA: 2 sessions. June 20-22 and August 2-4  Learn More/Signup http://www.solutionwhere.com/mbaea/cw/showcourse.asp?2702

For more information on the Blending/Flipping cohort see this site https://instructor20.wixsite.com/aeapdonlinebf

Iowa History Content Added to Student Personalize Learning System

Just added- Iowa History Content.

With support from Sandra Host and Dee Engstrom who have worked in conjunction with the Iowa Department of Education to create content about Iowa History for teachers, AEA PD Online has added two new modules about Iowa History.

• Iowa's Unsung Prairie Transformation to Farms and One Room Schools 1870-1900 Part 1 will help your students learn how the tall grass prairies discourages settlement of Iowa, how the Iowa legislature developed processes such as schools, railroad and more to entice immigrants to Iowa.

• Iowa's Unsung Prairie Transformation to Farms and One Room Schools 1870-1900 Part 2  will help your students learn more about how Iowa transformed prairie to farms, towns and one room school houses.

You can find these modules in the Student Personalized Learning System  by logging in and clicking on Modules and Social Studies OR by searching for Iowa in the search field.  More Iowa History modules will be added in the near future, so come back often.

If you wish to use these with students or have any questions please contact Denise Krefting  or Melissa Wicklund .

Algebra 1 content added to the Student Personalized Learning System

Recently added to the Student Personalized Learning System is a semester (or more depending on how you move through the content) of Algebra 1.   Teachers, administrators and math teachers of school districts could assign any or all of the modules to their students. You can check out the content by logging into the Student Personalized Learning system using the username and password that you use for the training system where you have taken mandatory trainings.

Once logged into the Student Learning system, click on Modules then Math.  If you wish to use these with students or have any questions please contact Denise Krefting (dkrefting@aeapdonline.org) or Melissa Wicklund (mwicklund@aeapdonline.org).

Here are the listings of some of the Algebra 1 modules:

• Algebra: Absolute Value
• Algebra: Domain and Range
• Algebra: Graphing Equations in Slope Intercept Form
• Algebra: Intercepts of Linear Equations
• Algebra: Linear Functions
• Algebra: Point Slope Form and Standard Form of Linear Equations
• Algebra: Rate of Change and Slope

Log in and check out the remaining 28 modules.       

First Group Completes the Blending Flipping Cohort Trainings

It is exciting to have a group of passionate educators complete training and to see how much they have grown.  Our first group of teachers has completed  and received a certificate for all four trainings in the Blending Flipping Cohort: Blending/ Flipping Your Classroom 1: Introduction,  Blending/Flipping 2- Blended Instruction,
Blending/Flipping Your Classroom 3: Designing Online Lessons and  Blending/Flipping 4: Activities and Assessment.  These educators have worked hard to learn and implement best practices for creating online classroom content that will support student learning and engagement.

Congratulations to (l to r): Heidi Reichart, Thomas Griffin, Amy Ripperger, Sandi Rankin, Paige Bolton, (instructor) Denise Krefting, Ashley Baxter, Rebecca Bock, Troy Staudt, Ann Wiley, Joanne Ryan and Salli Pence.

If you are interested in the Blending Flipping Cohort you can find more at the Blending Flipping Your Classroom website.

Learn about the Student Personalized Learning System at the IAAE Conference

Are you attending the Iowa Association of Alternative Education conference in Ames this spring?  If so you can learn more about how the Student Personalized Learning System can support students and teachers who work best in environments they are engaged in and passionate about.

AEA PD Online has student personalized learning opportunities to support classroom environments in ways that best fit their schedules and learning styles. Come learn more about the resources offered for your own alternative ed classroom. Teachers will be able to assign this content to an individual student, groups of students or their whole classes.  Learn more about our Student Personal Learning System and customize your classes to allow your students to learn in a more flexible, engaging manner.

This session will be from 12:40- 1:40 in the Harvest room on Thursday April 20th.

Learn more about Flipping at IDLA

The Iowa Distance Learning Association (IDLA) is a non-profit association formed to promote the development and application of distance learning to education and training. If you are attending their spring Symposium you will hear from great speakers including AEA PD Online's Denise Krefting talk about Flipped Learning for your Students: Flip don't Flop.  For more information about IDLA see their website.

Iowa Educators Featured in Upcoming Webinar

Kelly Schofield, Principal of Hanawalt Elementary School, Des Moines, IA; and Sarah Dougherty, Visual Arts Curriculum Coordinator and Turnaround Arts Director, Des Moines, IA are featured in an upcoming webinar titled: Coaching Educators Builds Creative Capacity.  The webinar is on Monday, April 3, 2017 from 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm.  Here is a description of the webinar.

Coaching educators builds their confidence and creative capacity. Coaching occurs in all sorts of situations from informal hallway chats and social gatherings to more formal PD or PLC group meetings and 1:1 in-depth conversations. Regardless of the venue, effective coaching is intentional listening. Coaches don’t solve other people’s problems; they help educators discover new approaches and take informed risks that lead to promising practices. Adult learners have much in common with young learners—the need for relevance, engagement, application, and interaction. Sitting and listening to lectures is not an effective teaching approach for helping children learn. That presenter-driven approach is equally boring for adults.
In this webinar, participants will hear insights from Cheri Sterman, Crayola Education Director; Kelly Schofield, Principal of Hanawalt Elementary School, Des Moines, IA; and Sarah Dougherty, Visual Arts Curriculum Coordinator and Turnaround Arts Director, Des Moines, IA on how to engage adult learners, and will be asked to “make their thinking visible” throughout the conversation as the presenters model a more interactive learning experience. This webinar will benefit K-8 classroom teachers, art teachers, literacy specialists, librarians, principals, and early childhood educators and family engagement specialists.

Click this link to register for their webinar.  

This webinar is one of the many webinars through edWeb.net and is sponsored by Crayola. 

Congratulations to Teacher Participating in the Blend Flip Cohort

Congratulations to Bryan Braack, a teacher at North Scott schools, whose Social Studies Softchalk lesson was chosen by the company as one of their "Featured Lessons of the Week".  Bryan learned how to work with the lesson builder Softchalk as well as best practices on building lessons in the courses which are part of the Blending Flipping Cohort.  Softchalk is a tool which is has been purchased for Iowa schools by AEA PD Online.

See Bryan's lesson on Scarcity here.


The Blended Flipping cohort consists of 4 courses that teachers and administrators can take through out a 1 1/2 year period.   Credit is available at a significantly reduced rate.

• The first course (Blending/ Flipping Your Classroom 1- Introduction is a three day face-to-face training on "Blending/Flipping your classroom 1" for one license renewal credit.  
• The second course is a fully online course "Blending/Flipping 2- Blended Instruction" as well as an elementary option for two credits (license renewal and graduate) which is available to those who have completed the first course.  
• The third in the series is "Blending/Flipping Your Classroom 3: Designing Online Lessons" which will take place as a blended model with two days face-to-face and the rest online for those who have completed the first two courses. It is this course that Bryan learned about Softchalk and the best practices behind text based lessons. This course is also two credits (license renewal and graduate).  
•  Finally the fourth in this series is "Blending/Flipping 4: Activities and Assessment "which will take place as a blended model with two days face-to-face and the rest online and is also 2 credits (license renewal and graduate) for those who have taken the three other courses.  

The last three courses in the series (six credits) can also be applied to the Drake Online Teacher certification for those that are interested.  Learn more about the cohort here.

If you are interested in being part of the Blended Flipping Cohort contact Denise Krefting or Melissa Wicklund.

Professional Development: Blending Flipping Your Classroom Cohort

Two Blending Flipping Your Classroom cohorts will be available for teachers this summer in Great Prairie AEA and Mississippi Bend AEA.  Course 1 "Blending/ Flipping Your Classroom 1" the start of the four course series will begin in June with another course in August for Mississippi Bend and in Great Prairie AEA (held at Van Buren CSD) in July.

These cohorts consist of 4 courses that teachers and administrators can take through out a 1 1/2 year period.   Credit is available at a significantly reduced rate.

• The first course (Blending/ Flipping Your Classroom 1- Introduction is a three day face-to-face training on "Blending/Flipping your classroom 1" for one license renewal credit.  
• The second course is a fully online course "Blending/Flipping 2- Blended Instruction" as well as an elementary option for two credits (license renewal and graduate) which is available to those who have completed the first course.  
• The third in the series is "Blending/Flipping Your Classroom 3: Designing Online Lessons" which will take place as a blended model with two days face-to-face and the rest online for those who have completed the first two courses. This course is also two credits (license renewal and graduate).  
•  Finally the fourth in this series is "Blending/Flipping 4: Activities and Assessment "which will take place as a blended model with two days face-to-face and the rest online and is also 2 credits (license renewal and graduate) for those who have taken the three other courses.  

The last three courses in the series (six credits) can also be applied to the Drake Online Teacher certification for those that are interested.  Learn more about the cohort here.

If you are interested in signing up or finding out more about the first course in the series offered at
Great Prairie AEA July 2017 click here.
Mississippi Bend AEA for June  and for August click here.

As other AEAs develop their summer schedule, their cohort courses will be added.  Please note that several school districts are also offering the cohort as part of their professional development.  Find out more by contacting Denise Krefting or Melissa Wicklund.

Instructional Designer Wanted

Ever been interested in working for AEA PD Online?  This is your chance!

AEA PD Online has an opening for an instructional designer position, starting July 1 of 2017.  This position will be working with our K-12 e-curriculum and blended learning team to help develop e-curriculum for our Personalized Learning and OER initiatives, as well as to help support our blended/flipped learning professional development.

In addition to working with the best staff in the world, and supporting the best teachers in the world (Iowa's!), this position is a truly 21st century position.  You have the chance to make an impact in the creative economy in an emerging field, and you have the opportunity to office from your current location within Iowa (no need to relocate to our central office).

Interested applicants can find out more and apply at the Teach Iowa website (or at your local AEA website).  The position is open until filled.  Please contact Evan Abbey with further questions.

Credit Options for 28 Days of OLLIE: Powering Up Personalized Learning Participants

The 28 Days of OLLIE: Powering Up Personalized Learning is only a few weeks away. In an effort to personalizing learning for 28 Day participants we are offering both formal and informal learning opportunities focused on how to further implement personalized learning with students.

Formal Learning Opportunity (Credit Option): Individuals who would like to participate in the 28 Days event for license renewal (2 credits) or graduate credit (2 credits) can do so by registering here. As an added bonus, the credits will be offered at a reduced rate:

License Renewal (2 credits):	$70
Drake Graduate (2 credits):	$150
Viterbo Graduate (2 credits):	$110
Morningside Graduate (2 credits):	$150
No Credit	$0

Individuals who select this option and register will receive information from the course instructor in early February.

Informal Learning Opportunity (No Credit=No Cost): Individuals who would like to participate in the 28 Days of OLLIE event, but

• Are interested in personalized learning, but not do not need license renewal or graduate credit at this time
• Aren’t certain how the course will fit into their schedule
• Haven’t participated in online learning opportunities and want to “dip their toes” in before taking a online course

Can choose to participate informally. The benefit of participating informally, is that participants have access to all of the learning (discussions, resources, activities, etc.), but can choose how to engage each of the opportunities presented during the 28 Days.

It is up to you, the participant, to choose which learner path works best for you.  

We can’t wait to connect with you during the month of February.

For more information about the 28 Days of OLLIE: Powering Up Personalized Learning

• follow AEA PD Online on twitter or facebook @aeapdonline
• Look for tweets at #28OLLIE.
• Subscribe to our blog at www.aeapdonline.org
• email questions to info@aeapdonline.org