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The Iowa Department of Education has awarded schools statewide for their work on implementing Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS). PBIS is a multi-tiered system of support for academics and behavior which provides the framework for school districts to implement and monitor prevention and intervention …

The consortia of Allen College and St. Luke’s College, Iowa Private Academic Libraries and Iowa’s 15 community colleges were awarded funds aimed at increasing more virtual education opportunities and online communities. The funds are provided through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act…

Pictured: All Saints School in Cedar Rapids offers Breakfast Buckets where students select breakfast items to fill their bucket and take to the classroom to consume. The school has similar levels of participation in breakfast and lunch programs. With free school meals, there has never been a better oppor…

March is Iowa History Month. Did you know: Long before Europeans came to Iowa, the state was populated by several Native American tribes: the Ioway in the central and west portions of the state, the Sioux in the north, the Saux and Fox in the east, and the Otoe in the southwest. In addition to hunting, tribes grew c…

March is Women’s History Month, a month dedicated to the contributions women made in U.S. history. Women made plenty of contributions in Iowa, too. For instance, Arabella Mansfield of Mount Pleasant became the first female attorney in 1869 in the entire country. Less than 40 years later, Gertrude Durden Rush became…

Teachers change the world one child at a time. And with each child, we unlock, and unleash, new possibilities into the world. While we could never find enough ways to honor our teachers for the work they do, there is one specific way you could recognize a teacher in your school — by nominating one of them as the 2022…

Public school districts are encouraged to apply for a grant that is aimed at providing the social-emotional and behavioral supports that some students need. The grant enables districts to establish therapeutic classrooms for learners whose social-emotional or behavioral needs interfere with their ability to be …

Funding totaling $43,000 has been awarded to 125 Early Care and Education (ECE) sites who participate in the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) to take part in the incentive pilot called Local Food Makes Cents: For Iowa Kids and Farmers. Last November, partners within the Iowa Farm to School and Early Care Co…

Editor’s note: This school feature is part one in a series highlighting recent recipients of the Career Academy Incentive Fund. The Career Academy Incentive Fund was established by a 2019 law that extends a statewide penny sales tax for school infrastructure, called Secure an Advanced Vision for Education (SAVE), thr…

Five Iowa educators have been named 2020 finalists in the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. The announcement of finalists were delayed to this year because of the pandemic. They are: Mathematics Angie Bonthuis, kindergarten, Gilbert Community School District Janet Rio…