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The Power of Purpose - the Why - in Leadership
All great leaders know their purpose - and its role in the success of "the organization," whether that organization is the family, the classroom, the building, the district, or even a business.  Purpose is the conduit for meaning and direction - and the clearer we are in knowing our purpose, the "why" of what we do, and sharing it with others, the more apt we are to get people to follow us toward its achievement.
Purpose, simply put, is The Core*: - Knowing and understanding the ultimate intent
- Og Mandino, author of The Greatest Salesman in the World, " recognized that successful people "take on their own lives . . . by charting or choosing their desired destination and the path to reach it."
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Daniel Pink, author of A Whole New Mind and Drive," encourages each of us to write "our sentence." (Abraham Lincoln's sentence, his purpose, was to save the Union and free the slaves. Winston Churchill's sentence, his purpose, was to inspire fortitude in world war - victory at all costs. "
- Question: "What's your sentence, your purpose?"
Bottom Line: Purpose connects all contributions and makes every effort count. It brings meaning to the organization! The Challenge: Identify your purpose. Then do whatever it takes! * Read When Life Meet Leadership
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Value-Added Opportunity for All Iowa ASCD Members
We wanted to keep it a secret and surprise you before the winter holiday - but we just couldn't do it!
We are sharing our surprise early for you as a member of Iowa ASCD!
Beginning January 1, 2015, and through December 31, 2015, every member of Iowa ASCD will have access to 30 books on line - 24/7 - every hour and every day.
These professional development resources, which are among the most current and most in-demand resources available from ASCD, deliver research-based best practices to help educators increase their leadership and instruction and support student learning. These  digital resources will keep you up to date on the leading concepts, themes, and practices applications that position you for success in today's learning environment. This gift from Iowa ASCD empowers you to access authoritative content quickly and easily - and gives you great functionality and features: So what do you need to do: - Just make sure you are a member of Iowa ASCD for 2015. If you have a question about this, e-mail Lou Howell and I will check your renewal date for you! You may also go to our webite to renew with a credit card or information on how to use a purchase order or send a check: http://iowaascd.org/index.php/membership/
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Check with your colleagues to be sure they are a member so you can use the resources together for your PLCs and other team work. Remember, membership for one year is only $45 - and you receive discounts for all conferences, access to The Source -shared the first and third Friday of each month except July, updates/alerts on important information, and now access to 30 books in 2015 - every day and every hour!
- You might want to consider an institutional membership for your building or district. Register the entire team for $25 (instead of the usual $45) per person. You cannot buy even one of these books for that fee - and your entire team will have access as well as the other Iowa ASCD benefits. Please e-mail Lou Howell for the "how to" on this great opportunity or access the "how to" on our website at http://iowaascd.org/index.php/membership/. Think about how these resources could impact your PLCs, your leadership team, your TLC team - and your students' success!
We will be sending the Iowa ASCD members their password on December 31, 2014. Don't miss out on this opportunity! Renew your membership now! Set up an institutional membership!
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Embedded Formative Assessment by Dylan Wiliam
Formative assessment plays an important role in increasing teacher quality and student learning when it's viewed as a process rather  than a tool. Emphasizing the instructional side of formative assessment, this book explores in depth the use of classroom questioning, learning intentions and success criteria, feedback, collaborative and cooperative learning, and self-regulated learning to engineer effective learning environments for students.
This book provides you opportunities to . . .
- Discover five key strategies with research evidence to show the impact of each.
- Find over 50 practical techniques for classroom formative assessment.
- Learn why educational achievement matters now more than ever.
- Witness how minor changes in instruction can affect powerful changes in achievement.
This author, Dylan Wiliam, coauthored a major review of research evidence on formative assessment with Paul Black and has worked many teachers in the United Kingdom and the United States on developing formative assessment practices to support learning.
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Register Now - November 12 - 13 - When Jay McTighe Will Be Back in Iowa to Deepen Teams' Understanding and Practices of Understanding by Design.
Join us this fall on November 12-13 as we feature Dr. Jay McTighe with Understanding by Design in Implementing the Iowa Core.
Please come learn and network with Dr. McTighe and other educators in Iowa.
Date: November 12-13, 2014
Location: Olmsted on the Drake Campus in Des Moines.
Fee: $250 for members; $295 for non-members of Iowa ASCD.
Watch for registration details, which will be available soon.
Plan now to attend the Iowa ASCD Fall Academy with Jay McTighe on November 12 and 13 - Implementing the Core with Understanding by Design: Planning Units with the End in Mind! Register before October 31 to get the Early Bird price of $250 for members and $295 for non members. November price will be $290 for members and $335 for nonmembers.
All participants will receive the following books:
- The Understanding By Design Guide To Creating High-Quality Units
- The Understanding By Design Guide To Advanced Concepts In Creating And Reviewing Units
An ideal model for implementing the Iowa Core is the renowned Understanding by Design� framework from Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe. Drawing from this popular framework, this two-day institute focuses on how to unpack the Iowa Core and create the high-quality curricula and assessments needed to prepare students for the demands of college and the workplace. This is a must-attend for anyone who wants to
- Understand the long-term transfer goals embedded in the Iowa Core standards that need to work their way into daily lessons.
- Learn how to get to the big ideas of the standards as well as discrete knowledge and skills.
- Explore ways to teach for understanding and transfer, not just coverage of standards.
- Get help creating authentic performance tasks and traditional assessments.
Outcomes and Goals of the Workshop -
Understand what UbD� is and the mind-set of a UbD curriculum designer.
- Develop and draft a unit plan based on the Iowa Core using the Understanding by Design Framework.
- Review and revise a plan based on the UbD design standards.
- Unpack and connect multiple Iowa Core standards to develop transfer goals, understandings, essential questions, and performance task ideas to design several units in a course.
Jay McTighe Conference Speaker and International Consultant Jay McTighe brings a wealth of experience developed during a rich and varied career in education. He served as director of the Maryland Assessment Consortium, a state collaboration of school districts working together to develop and share formative performance assessments. Prior to this position, Jay was involved with school improvement projects at the Maryland State Department of Education where he helped lead Maryland's standards-based reform, including the development of performance-based statewide assessments. He also directed the development of the Instructional Framework, a multimedia database on teaching. Well known for his work with thinking skills, Jay has coordinated statewide efforts to develop instructional strategies, curriculum models, and assessment procedures for improving the quality of student thinking. In addition to his work at the state level, Jay has experience at the district level in Prince George's County, Maryland, as a classroom teacher, resource specialist, and program coordinator. He also directed a state residential enrichment program for gifted and talented students.
Iowa ASCD Fall Academy November 12th and 13th, 2014 Registration: 8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Conference: 9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. Drake University, Olmsted Center 2507 University Avenue Des Moines, Iowa Planning Units With the End in Mind Cost: $250 for Iowa ASCD Members - Early Bird $295 for Non-Members - Early Bird $290 (Member) and $335 (Nonmember) after October 31
Please e-mail/FAX Bridget Arrasmith (Bridget.Arrasmith@Drake.edu) a PO with list of registrants and their e-mails addresses or send registration, names, and e-mail addresses and payment to:
Drake University SOE, Room 123, c/o Bridget Arrasmith 3206 University Avenue Des Moines, IA 50311 (515) 271-2233 / fax Download version of flyer available at: www.iowaascd.org. |
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Check It Out!
Check out the following:
- The Social Studies Conference is October 6 (evening) and October 7 at Prairie Meadows. The theme is Sailing the "C"s: Getting to the Core with Social Studies. Check out additional Information here.
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A conference aimed at math and science teachers will be  held October 21 - 22 at Iowa State University in Ames. The joint conference is intended to better serve members of the Iowa Council of the Teachers of Mathematics and the Iowa Science Teachers Section of the Iowa Academy of Science. Check out additional information here.
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Attention Teachers of PK, K, and First Graders: Conference for and by Teachers - Impacting Learning in My PK-K-1 Classroom!
Iowa ASCD and ISEA (Iowa State Education Association) are collaborating to offer a hands-on day of learning on December 4 at the Holiday Inn Airport and Conference Center in Des Moines.
Learn from practitioners across the state and leave with information, ideas, tools, strategies, and networking opportunities with teachers from across the state.
Conference Strands!
Teaching for Understanding
Curriculum Strand: What do all students need to learn, know, and be able to do? How do we in our building/grade level connect our teaching with the expectations identified in "The Core?"
Assessment for Learning
Assessment Strand: How do we know that students have learned? How do we use assessments to assess and diagnose our students' progress in learning? How do we adjust our instruction based on the results of the formative assessments?
Teaching for Learner Differences
Instruction Strand: How do we plan and deliver instruction so that we meet the needs of all learners in our classroom? How do we respond if students struggle or don't learn and how do we respond when students have already learned?
Registration!
Register now for the December 4 conference. The fee is $100 if a member of Iowa ASCD or ISEA and $150 for nonmembers. If a district sends four or more teachers, the principal comes free!
The registration includes opportunities for follow-up webinars, podcasts, and/or twitter chats as well as PK, K, and Grade 1 website of resources.
Register online with a credit card
- If an Iowa ASCD Member or not a member of either organization, register on line at http://iowaascd.org.php/events/event-registration/
- If an ISEA Member, register at https://www.regonline.com/impactinglearning
Mail a check/purchase order with names and e-mail addresses of participants to:
Bridget A. Ar rasmith
Room 123
Drake University School of Education3206 University
Des Moines, Iowa 50311
E-mail including attached purchase order with names and e-mail addresses of participants to Bridget A. Arrasmith at bridget.arrasmith@drake.edu.
FAX purchase order with names and e-mail addresses of participants to Bridget A.Arrasmith at 515.271.2233.
Holiday Inn Des Moines - Airport and Convention Center, 6111 Fleur Drive, Des Moines, IA 50321. $90 per room. Call 515.278.4755 to register and mention the Iowa ASCD/ISEA Grade-Level Conference.
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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: Capacity-Building: Linking Professional Development and Practice
- Presenter: Peter Hall
- Provider: ASCD
- Date: October 22, 2014, at 2:00 P.M. CDT
- Register Here
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Title: Feel Well, Teach Well: Ways to Gain and Sustain Wellness In and Out of the Classroom
- Presenters: M. Nora Mazzone and Barbara J. Miglionico
- Provider: ASCD
- Date: November 11, 2014, at 2:00 P.M. CDT
- Register Here
- Title: Close Reading: Teaching the Comprehension Skills of Text Analysis and Evaluation
- Presenter: Diane Lapp, Barbara Moss, Maria Grant, and Kelly Johnson
- Provider: ASCD
- Date: December 9, 2014, at 2:00 P.M. CDT
- Register Here
- Title: Archived Webinars of the Marzano Research Laboratory - Assessment and Grading, Common Core, Instructional Strategies, School Leadership, Educational Technology and Vocabulary
- Presenter: Staff Members
- Provider: Marzano Research Laboratory
- Access Here
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 Iowa ASCD is the source for developing instructional leadership and translating research into daily practice. Serving more than 1400 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 Kevin Vidergar Past-President Allan Eckelman President-Elect Becky Martin Membership and Conference Information Bridget Arrasmith Secretary Leslie Moore Treasurer Jeff Watson Members-at-Large Diane Campbell Ottie Maxey Sara Oswald Amy Whittington 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 Pam Zeigler Fall Academy Veta Thode Fall Institute Lou Howell Elaine Smith-Bright Summer Institutes and Grade-Level Conferences Kym Stein Planning Chair Cindy Swanson Project Chair Jason Ellingson Technology Chris Welch Membership Relations and E-Learning Amy Wichman Executive Director Lou Howell Here's What's Happening!
- November 12-13, 2014
- Fall Academy
- Jay McTighe
- Understanding by Design
- Drake University
- Register Now
- December 4, 2014
- Grade-Level Conference for PK, K, and 1
- For and By Teachers
- Holiday Inn - Airport in Des Moines
- Register Now!
- February 10, 2015
- Advocacy Workshop
- Savery Hotel in Des Moines and "On the Hill" with Legislators
- April 23-24, 2015
- Curriculum Academy
- Hilton Garden Inn in Johnston - Exit I 80 129
- June 22-23, 2015
- Summer Institute
- Iowa Events Center
- Get The Source the first and third Friday of each month.
- Join us on Twitter @IowaASCD
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