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Editor’s note: For February’s CTE Month®, we are featuring Q&A sessions with Iowa educators and students who are participating in career and technical education programs. Their experiences and perspectives provide a glimpse into the importance of CTE instruction for skill development and career exploration. Qu…

The Iowa Department of Education is seeking content developers who are licensed Iowa educators to create online units for inclusion in Iowa e-Learning Central. Iowa e-Learning Central is being developed as a resource to provide access to courses and tools to support educators as they navigate virtual learning enviro…

It’s National School Counseling Week, which honors the unique contribution of school counselors in schools. This week, we salute Iowa’s nearly 1,400 school counselors. Each day this week, we will highlight a school counselor from across the state. Today we focus on Lauren Cerqueira, a counselor at Hills, Webe…

The deadline has been extended for applications for grants to enable schools to train and sustain the school health workforce to support COVID response-and-recovery initiates focused on social-emotional-behavioral health (SEBH). The deadline is now Friday, March 11, at 4:30 p.m. The Iowa Departments of Education and…

DES MOINES – Two Iowa educators have been named recipients of the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST). Angie Bonthuis, an educator at Gilbert Elementary School in the Gilbert Community School District, was honored for her work in mathematics. Bonthuis has been an educato…

It’s National School Counseling Week, which honors the unique contribution of school counselors in schools. This week, we salute Iowa’s nearly 1,400 school counselors. Each day this week, we will highlight a school counselor from across the state. Today we focus on Sheryl Bass, a college-career transition cou…

Editor’s note: For February’s CTE Month®, we are featuring Q&A sessions with Iowa educators and students who are participating in career and technical education programs. Their experiences and perspectives provide a glimpse into the importance of CTE instruction for skill development and career exploration. Qu…

It’s National School Counseling Week, which honors the unique contribution of school counselors in schools. This week, we salute Iowa’s nearly 1,400 school counselors. Each day this week, we will highlight a school counselor from across the state. Today we focus on Melissa Murphy, a counselor at Springville S…

It’s National School Counseling Week, which honors the unique contribution of school counselors in schools. This week, we salute Iowa’s nearly 1,400 school counselors.  Each day this week, we will highlight a school counselor from across the state. Today we focus on Megan Barber, a counselor at Morris El…

It’s National School Counseling Week, which honors the unique contribution of school counselors in schools. This week, we salute Iowa’s nearly 1,400 school counselors. Each day this week, we will highlight a school counselor from across the state. Today we focus on Lacey Cherniss, who counsels at Indianola Mi…