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    A Teacher’s Experience with Peer-to-Peer Supports: Building Bridges 2022

    Preschoolers are capable of doing BIG things when given the opportunity. One preschool teacher, Erin Sheets shares how peer mediated strategies have been a… Read More

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    Iowa’s Area Education Agencies Awarded Grant Funding for Computer Science

    Iowa’s Area Education Agencies have been awarded nearly one million dollars in grant funding to provide statewide K-12 computer science professional development for… Read More

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    Building Bridges: AAC in General Education Incorporating Peer Modeling

    Great learning opportunities occur everyday in our classrooms, but something else is happening within those four walls. Children are developing friendships and a… Read More

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    Reciprocal Teaching, it’s Not Just for Literacy Teachers!

    Chances are if you have heard of reciprocal teaching you have thought of it in the context of an English Language Arts class. Read More

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    How to Use a Document Camera or iPad in Zoom & Meet

    In a world that is still not done with virtual learning or quarantined classrooms, the ability to teach online is still and important skill for… Read More

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    Concept Mapping: The Map that Leads to Effective Instruction

    When thinking of concept mapping, graphic organizers often come to mind. But concept mapping is more than that. The graphic organizer is the tool for… Read More

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    Riddle Me This? Incorporating Questioning into Instructional Technology

    Questioning as an instructional factor weighs in at a .48 effect size, demonstrating the capacity to have a significant impact on student growth. Teachers ask… Read More

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    Putting it all Together: Using the Jigsaw Method with Instructional Technology

    If you have ever attended PD at Grant Wood AEA chances are you have been exposed to the obligatory Jigsaw Method for processing learning. Although… Read More

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    Eastern Iowa STEM Goes Red

    The American Heart Association (AHA) invites you to this year's Cedar Rapids area "STEM Goes Red" digital experience welcome for all to attend. STEM Goes… Read More

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    Read Across America Day – 2022

    Read Across America Day is a national holiday celebrated each year on March 2nd, the birth date of famous children's author Dr. Read More