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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.
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.
The newest bar in Iowa City has everything you need for a Saturday night out: pizza, a pool table, TV screens showing the big game and an extensive drink menu. The only thing it doesn't have is alcohol. The UnImpaired Dry Bar is hoping to show a clientele likely to be made up of college students that it can meet all their needs sans the buzz.
DAVENPORT, Iowa (KWQC) - Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds announced a $100 million investment in school safety across the state Tuesday.
The announcement came three weeks after the shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas and now local school districts are figuring out what they can do to improve school safety with the funding.
Iowa's three public universities are aiming to raise student retention rates in an attempt to help them earn degrees faster, with new goals approved by the Board of Regents on Thursday. The percentages the University of Iowa, Iowa State University and the University of Northern Iowa are attempting to reach are standard when compared to neighboring higher education institutions.
Iowa State University is investing more than $10 million into a series of projects to kick off the university's vision of itself over the next decade — a vision that includes better retention of underrepresented students, renovated child care facilities and a unified structure for online programs.
With a nationwide psychiatrist shortage and diminished access to mental and behavioral health help, one school's community coordinator created "Healthy Island," a once empty room now dedicated to be a safe and therapeutic space for students.