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Early childhood teachers can stay connected through the early childhood collaborative learning network! Teachers will have the opportunity to reflect on current instructional strategies and assessment practices in a variety of content areas with other early childhood...

As the 21-22 school year comes to an end, please ensure that the correct steps have been taken for enabling myIGDI data to be displayed in Panorama Student Success. The following two checklists are intended for program...

Mass archiving of the GOLD assessment will take place on August 15. Program staff will need to reactivate records for children returning for the 2022-23 school year. Please send inquiries and/or questions to Mary Breyfogle at the...

“Play is the highest form of research.” ~ Albert Einstein Preschool and kindergarten have changed since the days when we built things with blocks. We see an academic push into those early childhood classrooms that didn’t exist...

Iowa’s Area Education Agencies have partnered with Hanover Research to administer and analyze a survey regarding your perceptions of your AEA’s services. Your responses and the results of this survey will help your AEA better understand and...

Have you heard of the term compassion fatigue? Did you know that it can set in over a period of years or as little as 6 weeks? (Elliot, Elliot, and Spears, 2018). If you are a teacher,...

  2020 has been one for the record books! Between COVID-19, virtual learning, social distancing, and an unexpected derecho, many communities and families are stretching their band of resiliency to the max. Young children can have a...

Who are the Central Rivers AEA Early Childhood Consultants? We are committed to Iowa’s youngest learners and the adults that support them. As Early Childhood Consultants, we provide a variety of services to districts. What do we...