Educator Connection

Licensure Renewal Credit & CEUs are now available for the Inclusive Classroom Conference - Feb. 9, 2022. (This is a great option if you need Licensure Renewal Credit including Substitute Authorization or Certified Paraeducator.) Register for the conference using this link.

Register for credit using this link.

Here is the December/January edition of the SEBH News, featuring:

• Energy check-in
• Training dates
• Feeling overwhelmed?
• Survival guide from Trauma Stewardship Institute

Please print and share with your school community!

As a busy on-the-go educator, we’ve made it easy for you to quickly order some of our most-requested products. Check out the items that we’ve designed specifically for Prairie Lakes AEA educators, including Boardmaker, CORE Vocabulary, Familial Text DLM, Iowa CORE Books K-12, Georgia Numeracy, Safety Posters, and more! Check out the Prairie Lakes AEA Quick Order Items.

To view all of the amazing products available through Prairie Lakes AEA Creative Services, see the Prairie Lakes AEA Creative Services Brochure

Are you interested in learning four conversation models to help you interrogate reality, provoke learning, tackle your toughest challenges, and enrich relationships through all of that? Then Fierce Conversations is for you!

Join Dr. Lisa Hartman and Valerie Jergens for virtual Fierce Conversations training scheduled for March 3, 10, 17, and 31. Two license renewal/evaluator approval credits are also available. Cost is $195 Registration is open now. Course #201155, Section #309754.

Emerging Educators Academy is planned for Saturday, Jan. 22 at Drake University. This academy is geared toward Iowa's pre-service and early career teachers and the mentors who support them.

More details at https://bit.ly/EEA-7thAnnual

Iowa is celebrating its 175th anniversary of Iowa’s statehood (December 28, 1846). AEA Learning Online has partnered with the Rural Legacy Project and Sandra Host, Curator of the Iowa Rural Schools Museum of Odebolt to share content that traces Iowa’s beginnings to statehood and beyond. The content is made available through the Rural Legacy Project, AEA Learning Online’s Student System, and AEA Learning Online’s OER Commons Hub.

Here is a listing of the Iowa History content available that can be used with students:

• Iowa History Book: Collections of the Iowa Rural Schools Museum of Odebolt 1870-1950
• Iowa History Glaciers to Settlement: Unit 1 Formation of Iowa's Soils & Why Prairieland is Unique
• Iowa History Glaciers to Settlement: Unit 2 First Inhabitants of Iowa
• Iowa History Glaciers to Settlement: Unit 3 First Europeans on Iowa Land-Fur Trade and Tribal Movements 1600-1800
• Iowa History Glaciers to Settlement: Unit 4 Acquisition of Iowa Land- Louisiana Purchase- and Tribal Treaties
• Iowa History Glaciers to Settlement: Unit 5 Black Hawk's Story and Tribal Movements out of Iowa
• Iowa History Glaciers to Settlement: Unit 6 European Settlement of Iowa Land 1833 to Statehood in 1846
• Iowa History Glaciers to Settlement: Unit 7 Iowa's Statehood 1846 to the Historic Sale of Prairieland Starting in 1870
• Iowa History Glaciers to Settlement: Unit 8 The Successful Transformation of the Tallgrass Prairie from 1870-1900
• Iowa History: A New Look at Iowa's One-Room Schools
• Iowa History: Iowa Rural Settlement
• Iowa History: Settlement and Education
• Iowa's Unsung Prairie Transformation to Farms and One Room Schools 1870-1900 Part 1
• Iowa's Unsung Prairie Transformation to Farms and One Room Schools 1870-1900 Part 2

Videos and teacher guides are also available in AEA Learning Online’s OER Commons Hub Iowa History Collection.

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