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Bridging Languages, Building Futures: How Iowa’s AEAs Support English Learners and Their Teachers

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  • AEAs are critical to the success of Iowa’s education system

  • The Value of Iowa AEAs: A Passionate Plea for Continued Support

  • Iowa Area Education Agencies offer valuable services to public and non-public schools in Iowa

How we help educators, students & families

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    Efficiency

    We provide services to local school districts that they could not afford independently. By working together, we make every dollar stretch further.

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    Equity

    Prior to the establishment of Iowa's Area Education Agency (AEA) system in 1974, the Iowa legislature was plagued with complaints about inequitable services from district to district across Iowa. One of our number one objectives is to ensure that all students and teachers, regardless of location, have access to what they need to succeed.

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    Excellence

    Excellence is not a buzzword at Central Rivers AEA, it's part of our DNA as an organization. We recruit and retain highly qualified team members with a passion for service.

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    Leadership & Service

    We both respond to district requests and create opportunities never thought of before. Our dedication extends to every last student we serve.

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Central Rivers AEA's Britt Davis, Speech-Language Pathologist, collaborated with Wapsie Valley Jr./Sr. High School Human Anatomy students on their sensory unit. 👏

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Lindsay Hoy, Central Rivers AEA speech-language pathologist, collaborates with a student at Hoover Elementary. 🙌

Lindsay helps students from PreK-5th grade at Mason City Community School District. They are currently focusing on syllables and vowel sounds as part of the student's ...personalized speech therapy lessons, aiming to achieve his speech goals. 👏🗣📚

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Did you know our Media department often provides equipment/services to our schools?

This is a piece of physical therapy (PT) equipment from the special education collection in Media that we manage for our PT/OT services. 🙌

By circulating assistive technology through our media ...reservation library system, this allows equitable access to all of our consultants in the districts they serve to ensure students are paired with the right equipment for support. 👏🏫

Visit our website to browse the full catalog. https://bit.ly/GetMediaresources

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What a great morning! #CRAEA superintendents and principals joined us for an idea share around future ready best practices and partnerships happening in local schools. A big thank you to Aplington-Parkersburg, Denver, Waverly Shell-Rock, West Fork, Forest City, Central Springs, Iowa Falls & ...Alden, and Gladbrook-Reinbeck for your inspiring presentations! From meaningful career conversations to work-based learning, schools shared what works for them and gave other districts inspiration for their own programs. 👏

Shoutout to the Denver Middle School’s “Cyclone Joe” students that served coffee, the Empowered students that designed and printed the shirts for today’s meeting and Waverly-Shell Rock ProStart students/Union students for the delicious lunch and treats! 🙌

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Congratulations to the March Central Rivers AEA staff that were nominated for a Difference Maker Award by our LEA partners! 👏

This award recognizes the positive impact made by these staff/teams for our local teachers, parents, students, schools and communities. 🙌

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South Tama County Community School District teachers have been engaging in Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling (LETRS) learning this year! We've been collaborating and building their knowledge around the Science of Reading all year. 🙌

Last week, teachers and ...administrators got to test themselves with a game of “heads up,” learned about guided practice opportunities for their phonics lessons with students, and had a lot of fun with the "Magic E!" 👏

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What we are proud of

Top Workplace

We are a Des Moines Register Top Workplace.

90%

of local educators say Central Rivers AEA special education services are "meeting or exceeding" expectations.

96%

of local educators say that Central Rivers AEA Future Ready supports are "meeting or exceeding" expectations.

98%

of local educators say that Central Rivers AEA Media and Creative Services are "meeting or exceeding" expectations.

"The AEA staff members who work with my district have been extremely helpful across the board...answering questions specific to content areas, helping with technology implementation, analyzing and using student data, and implementing Social and Emotional Learning structures."