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Educators and administrators interested in learning more about ways to grow work-based learning programs to set students up for success in college and careers are invited to register for a new “Classrooms + Workplaces” webinar on Thursday, March 30, from 3-4 p.m.
Hosted by the Governor’s…
March 12-18 is National CACFP Week, an annual national educational and information campaign sponsored by the National CACFP Sponsors Association designed to raise awareness of how the USDA’s Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) works to combat hunger. The program provides meal reimbursement…
In only their first year out of high school, Southwestern Community College students Osten Blevins and Aiden Evans are already set to graduate with their respective associate degrees this May. How is this possible, you ask? Easy. It’s a combination of individual hard work, ambitious career…
DES MOINES – Governor Reynolds has appointed Chad Aldis, a native Iowan and former student of Camanche, East Central (now Easton Valley), and Clinton Community School Districts, to lead the Iowa Department of Education as director beginning March 15, 2023.
For the last 20 years, Aldis’s…
Imagine starting to teach a child Spanish in preschool and, by kindergarten, classes are taught exclusively in Spanish. At Dubuque’s Our Lady of Guadalupe, they don’t have to imagine it. They are doing it. And by fifth grade, the students are fluent in both English and Spanish.
It’s…
You will want to save the date for the June 13-14 training Teaching for Impact: Training for all Educators Supporting Learners with Disabilities, which will take place in Des Moines.
The Teaching for Impact training, which is sponsored by the Iowa Department of Education and the Area…
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) announced the winners of the Turnip the Beet award for summer 2022.
A grand total of ninety-eight sponsors qualified for either a gold, silver or bronze Turnip the Beet Award. Ankeny and Waukee Community…
Long-term trend shows increase despite slight .3 percent dip for the second post-pandemic graduating class
DES MOINES – Iowa’s high school graduation rate remains high for the graduating class of 2022, the second full year following the pandemic, according to figures released today by…
Barb Schwamman knows a good deal when she sees it. When the state’s Teacher and Paraeducator Registered Apprenticeship Grant Program was announced last year, she jumped at the opportunity.
Schwamman, the superintendent of both the Osage and Riceville community school districts, saw the…
From a record number of 463 nominations that were submitted statewide, seven finalists have been selected for the annual Golden Owl Award, which celebrates Iowa’s top agriculture educator of the year.
Sponsored by the Iowa FFA Foundation, Nationwide Insurance and other agricultural…