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Central Rivers’ AEA’s Media Center is here to support district teachers and staff. The agency needs teacher and administrator feedback to ensure the agency’s Media Center resources include the items that are most needed in your classrooms...
These book sets are organized by grade level themes for Iowa Social Studies Standards. Sources are central to the success of inquiry. Sources deliver content, encourage disciplinary thinking, and even inspire students to want to learn more....
MackinVIA offers students and teachers fiction and non-fiction books in a wide range of topics. Within your school’s MackinVIA, books are organized to support the Disciplinary Core Ideas (DCIs) of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) in...
Central Rivers AEA Media Services strives to maintain a current collection of resources for our schools to access. In order to maintain the currency and relevance of our materials, each summer our media collection is reviewed or...
We are excited to share with you an ‘all-star’ line up of amazing educators joining us in Cedar Falls for Maker Meetup on July 30th! Plan to attend as we explore ways to empower students as learners through sharing...
Several points of research show how student achievement can drop off over the summer if they don’t stay engaged academically. Wondering how to keep your students reading over the summer? Central Rivers AEA, in cooperation with Mackin...
Summer Hours for Central Rivers AEA will begin Monday, June 10th and end Friday, August 9th. Office hours will be 7:30 AM – 4:00 PM during this period. Last Route Stops for Media Vans – The last...
Read-alongs format has been added to your MackinVIA! Mackin Read-Alongs are a special kind of eBook, featuring embedded human-voice narration synchronized with the words on the screen, which highlight as they are read. A read-along is the...
A video of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev’s 1959 visit to Coon Rapids at the height of the Cold War. The neatly typed script President Herbert Hoover used during his 1929 inaugural address, slightly wrinkled by the rain...