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Susan Pecinovsky Named to ASCD Legislative Team
ASCD President Becky Berg recently appointed Iowa ASCD Director  Susan Pecinovsky to a three-year term on the ASCD Legislative Committee. This committee is charged with creating ASCD's annual legislative agenda, which identifies the organization's policy priorities and guides its advocacy activities with the United States Congress and other policymakers. The committee convenes annually in the fall to draft the agenda, which includes briefings with U.S. Department of Education officials and congressional staff as part of the agenda development process.
Berg recognized Dr. Pecinovsky's leadership and insight as an asset to this vital work. Her first meeting will take place on September 19-21, 2013, in Alexandria, VA. In addition to this and other meetings, Pecinovsky will take part in the Leadership Institute for Legislative Advocacy in Washington, D.C., on January 26-28, 2014, when ASCD will unveil the 2014 Legislative Agenda.
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Off the Clock --> Competency-Based Education
Rose Colby, keynote speaker at the CBE Conference on June 26-27, and Fred Bramante share in Off the Clock: Moving Education from TIME to COMPETENCY, how student achievement can be based on mastering competencies instead of "seat time." The authors describe a uniquely 21st century learning environment in which . . .
- every student is engaged
- parents and students have more control over learning
- dropouts are all but eliminated
- curriculum becomes virtually limitless, project-based, and interdisciplinary.
They remind us that "the opportunity to reimagine public education is before us today. At no other time in public education have we been so challenged by the constraints of the economy, the public outcry for changes in financing personnel and resources, and the demand for accountability through testing."
They ask us to "imagine if our systems of learning were designed to move our students through achievement and not through time," the lynchpin that has held us in the 20th century model of public schooling.
They ask us to "imagine if our systems of regulating, financing, teaching, and learning were not captive to time, but instead were allowed to occur anytime, anyplace, anyhow, and at any pace," making learning a continuum of mastery.
They share with us how New Hampshire is living the vision - where "time and place will be the variables and achievement will be the constant."
Are you one of those talented leaders who is ready to embrace, or at the very least learn about, moving from a time-based to a competency-based system? Then read this book and join us at the Iowa ASCD Conference - Competency-Based Education: Define! Design! Deliver!
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Register Now for the Competency-Based Education Conference: Define! Design! Deliver!
Competency-Based Education - June 26-27, 2013 
Mark your calendars now for a great two days in June - June 26-27 - featuring an Iowa ASCD conference on Competency- Based Education: Define! Design! Deliver!Competency-Based Education (CBE) impacts systems of learning as well as classrooms for learning. Every educator in Iowa wants life-long learners. Come learn how students can learn and demonstrate competencies which will endure throughout time. CBE provides a strong framework for teachers and administrators to understand the Iowa Core and ensure students are college-, career- and citizenship-ready.Purpose: - To expand the knowledge base of educators and others interested in competency-based education
- To build the capacity of educators and others to transform the current system of education in Iowa to a system focused on personalized learning for each and every student
Featured Speakers: Join us for learning and conversations with national leaders like Rose Colby, author of Off the Clock and a national consultant on competency-based education, Tom Vander Ark, author of Getting Smart: How Digital Learning Is Changing the World and founder of GettingSmart.com. And there will be several Iowans joining the conversation and sharing their expertise: Dr. Jason Glass, Director of the Iowa Department of Education; CBE Task Force members Jeff Herzberg of Prairie Lakes AEA and Bridget Wagoner of Waverly-Shell Rock Community School District; and Representatives Tyler Olson, Renee Schulte (pending), and Cindy Winkler. And Andrea Stewart, teacher in the Muscatine Community School district, will be one of several sharing how it is delivered in the classroom. Sessions will include among others: - Define: What is a competency?
- Design: How do we design and assess competencies?
- Deliver: What does it look like in my classroom?
Mark your calendars now! June 26 an 27! Register for the Conference on the Iowa ASCD web site. The fee is $250 for Iowa ASCD members and $295 for non-members. You may also . . . - Mail a check/purchase order with date/name of conference and names of participants to Bridget A. Arrasmith, Drake University School of Education, 3206 University, Des Moines, IA 50311.
- E-mail a purchase order with name/date of conference and names of participants to Bridget A. Arrasmith at bridget.arrasmith@drake.edu.
- FAX purchase order with name/date of conference and names of participants and grade level/role to Bridget A. Arrasmith at 515.271.2233.
 We hope you have been following the tweets on competency-based education from Iowa ASCD. If not, follow us now on Twitter and review the CBE tweets. Watch for new ones coming out this next week!
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We Need Your Guidance - Please Complete the Membership Survey
Iowa ASCD was most appreciative of the survey many of you completed three years ago. It led to major changes in our organization and was instrumental in Iowa ASCD being recognized by ASCD with the Outstanding Affiliate Award in March.
We would like your help in increasing our value to you and your work. Please complete this short - very short - survey to help us become the organization you want and need us to be.
Please take time to complete this survey! Just click here! It will greatly influence the work of Iowa ASCD.
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Do You Teach like a Pirate?
ASCD Emerging Leader Stefanie Rosenberg-Wager attended the National Council for the Social Studies Conference two years ago and "happened to stumble upon a session entitled, "Teach Like a Pirate." The title intrigued her and when shhe arrived at the session, the room was packed. Soon, a man dressed like a pirate arrived and Rosenberg-Wager thought, "Oh, what have I gotten myself into?" and it turned out to be "one of the best sessions I've attended at any professional conference."
 The presenter, Dave Burgess, has turned his "teach like a pirate" concept into a movement. There is a weekly "teach like a pirate" (#tlap) Twitter chat each Monday night at 8 P.M. (Central) and Dave has recently published a book entitled Teach Like a Pirate: Increase Student Engagement, Boost Your Creativity, and Transform Your Life as an Educator. The book is divided into three parts. Part I explains the "teach like a pirate" concept. Part II discusses how to build engaging lessons and gives over thirty hooks (pun intended!) to create these lessons. Part III talks about how to build a better pirate; meaning how can you take the concepts of the book and apply them to your own classroom in a consistent way.
Rosenberg-Wager shares, "This book is different from almost any other book I've read recently. It is a totally different way to engage students in the learning process and combines the idea of content engagement with 21st century skills." Check out the book on Amazon or Barnes and Noble.
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Iowa ASCD seeks to keep you informed about webinars for your learning and the learning of those with whom you work. Check out the following; many of these support the work in your collaborative time and definitely help with implementation of The Core!
- Title: Walk-Throughs for Teachers Observing Peers
- Presenter: Don Kachur, author of the ASCD Book Engaging Teachers in Classroom Walkthroughs
- Provider: ASCD
- Date: July 30, 2013; 2:00 - 3:00 P.M. (CDT)
- Register Free
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- Presenter: Janet Hale and Michael Fisher
- Provider: ASCD
- Date: August 7, 2013; 2:00 - 3:00 P.M. (CDT)
- Register Free
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- Presenter: Eric Jensen
- Provider ASCD
- Date: September 12, 2013; 2:00 - 3:00 P.M.
- Register Free
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Iowa ASCD - Twitter!
Stay current with learning! Follow Iowa ASCD on Twitter! http://twitter.com/#!/IowaASCD |
 Iowa ASCD is the source for developing instructional leadership and translating research into daily practice. Serving more than 850 educators - teachers, principals, superintendents, directors of curriculum, technology specialists, college professors, AEA staff - Iowa ASCD strives to develop the collaborative capacity to impact the learning of each and every student in Iowa. |
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Iowa ASCD Contacts President Jason Ellingson Past-President Leslie Moore President-Elect Allan Eckelman Membership Information Bridget Arrasmith Secretary Leslie Moore Treasurer (Interim) Lou Howell Members-at-Large Julie Grotewold Ottie Maxey Becky Martin Kevin Vidergar DE Liaison Rita Martens Higher Education Jan Beatty-Westerman Elaine Smith-Bright Advocacy and Influence Pam Armstrong-Vogel Susan Pecinovsky Curriculum Leadership Academy Sue Wood Fall Institute Veta Thode Summer Institutes and Grade-Level Conferences Kym Stein Planning Chair Cindy Swanson Technology Chris Welch Membership Relations and E-Learning Amy Wichman Executive Director Lou Howell |
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June 26-27, 2013
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Competency-Based Education Conference
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National and State Presenters
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8:00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M. each day
- Iowa Event Center, Des Moines, IA
- $250 for Iowa ASCD members; $295 for non-members
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Focus: Define! Design! and Deliver! Competency-Based Education
- October 8, 2013
- Iowa ASCD Fall Institute
- "Getting to the Core of K-8 Literacy"
- Presenter: Dr. Nell Duke, Professor - University of Michigan
- Location: Drake University, Olmsted Center
- 9:00 A.M. to 3:30 P.M.
- Learn how to . . .
- increase student motivation in literacy
- help K-8 students meet the Iowa Core literacy standards
- organize reading and writing around real purposes for kids.
- Get The Source the first and third Friday of each month.
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