Articles from 06/2019

Newly elected student leaders from each of Iowa’s nine career and technical student organizations build their leadership skills at the statewide CTSO student officer training. Student leaders from across the state gathered at the FFA Enrichment Center in Ankeny recently for a full day of training aimed at dev…

Megan Niewoehner is with Karen Van De Walle, agriculture instructor and Iowa Association for Career and Technical Education (IACTE) board member (L) and Steve Kalous, business instructor (R). Kalous nominated Megan for the U.S. Presidential Scholars in Career and Technical Education Program. What’s your major…

Olivia Gude, keynote speaker at the Iowa Fine Arts Education Summit, is an artist and educator at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Professor Emerita of the University of Illinois at Chicago. Gude has created many award-winning collaborative mural and mosaic projects. In recent years, she has united her …

Editor’s note: Joel Breakstone is the keynote speaker at the Best Practices in Social Studies Summer Institute. Breakstone directs the Stanford History Education Group. He received his Ph.D. from the Stanford Graduate School of Education. Along with Mark Smith and Sam Wineburg, he led the development of SHEG's ass…

Judy Elliott is a keynote speaker at the 2019 Every Student Succeeds Act Institute for Schools in Des Moines. Elliott is the former chief academic officer of the Los Angeles Unified School District where she was responsible for curriculum and instruction early childhood through adult education, professional developm…

Editor’s note: Iowa Department of Education Director Ryan Wise welcomed participants this morning attending the three-day 2019 ESSA June Institute for Schools. Below are excerpts from his welcome.   As we state in our statewide Every Student Succeeds Act plan, we have incredible strength in our system to …

The Iowa Department of Education is sponsoring a two-day workshop on the Holocaust July 2-3 at the Caspe Terrace, 33158 Ute Avenue, in Waukee from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The workshops are being offered by Echoes and Reflections - a leading Holocaust education organization that offers curriculum on teachi…

DES MOINES – Iowa families who rely on schools to help feed their children during the school year have access this summer to meals served in schools, community centers and other sites at no charge through a federally funded program. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Summer Food Service Program provides thousa…

DES MOINES -  Gov. Kim Reynolds announced that six additional elementary schools will receive $50,000 grants each to transform themselves into models of innovative computer science instruction through a joint project of the Iowa Department of Education and the Governor’s STEM Advisory Council. This increases the…

Aileen Sullivan cannot wait to get back to her classroom and colleagues this fall. That comes after a year of being Iowa Department of Education’s 2018 Teacher of the Year. “I’m very excited because I really enjoy the connection with the students and my colleagues that I see every day,” she said. “I missed…