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Attention: State and District Leaders, School Administrators, Educators, Student Support Personnel, Parents, and Education Stakeholders
The U.S. Department of Education is hosting a webinar series to address hot topics that are on the top of educators’ minds.
Marion County Public Health Director Dr. Caine hosted a “Youth Violence Prevention Call to Action” in Indianapolis with approximately 80 stakeholders, from educators and teens to mentors, health care professionals, political leaders and juvenile justice officials. A wide range of contributing issues leading to childhood gunshot violence and injuries were raised and promised solutions were announced.
The Near Eastside school, on the edge of Irvington, had been graded an academic failure by the state for a dozen years. Then 35-year-old Knight was hired as a final attempt to turn the school around.
Discusses implementing programs that ensure school safety and academic success, covering what makes up Iowa's program as an example. Demonstrates Iowa's success via participation in standard LEA implementation activities and their Safe School Certification Program as well as via completing items on an implementation checklist.
Assists school leaders to improve school climate, which includes guidance to develop a plan to improve adult-student relationships. The toolkit provides a picture of a sample plan and the step-by-step process for successfully creating a plan to improve the climate in a school.
Includes information for schools that want to get moving right away to improve school climate. This toolkit contains an implementation readiness guide, sample plan, and details six steps that can move a school through a change process.
Used for progress monitoring throughout the Iowa Safe and Supportive Schools (IS3) grant and was set up as an online survey (using SurveyMonkey). IS3 Area Education Agency coordinators completed the checklist periodically each year for each of their assigned schools.
Provides a unifying framework for schools, families, and communities to understand, select, and organize their learning supports (i.e., strategies, programs, and practices used to create conditions to enhance learning).
Explains how schools and districts can create a continuum map to graphically document all of the supports available to students across content areas and identify which students receive those supports across three tiers. Continuum maps can help stakeholders understand the activities and resources available in a school or district.
Coe College has received a $15,350 Institutionalizing Community-Based Pedagogies grant from the Associated Colleges of the Midwest. The grant will support the creation of a new Prison Learning Initiative at Coe which will provide a range of high-impact experiences for students and community members to learn about and become involved with the criminal-legal system in Iowa and the Midwest.