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Volume 16, Number 8                         The Source


April 15, 2016   

Iowa ASCD Received the 2016 Overall Excellence Award at the ASCD Annual Conference

Located in the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, and East Asia, ASCD affiliates are separate education organizations that work collaboratively as part of the ASCD community to foster common values and goals that are essential to the way educators learn, teach, and lead. Affiliates influence education policy and provide a forum for the exchange of high-quality education practices.

ASCD values each affiliate's contributions in advancing the association's mission. To honor affiliates' exemplary service in the education community, ASCD annually considers applications for Affiliate Recognition Awards. The 2016 awards were presented on Saturday at the Leadership Appreciation Luncheon.

Iowa ASCD received the 2016 Overall Excellence Award. This award is given to affiliates that exhibit the characteristics of an exemplary affiliate, which include using data to meet member needs and demonstrating influence on education practice and policy within the local region while actively collaborating with the ASCD community at-large.  Accepting the award were Iowa ASCD Board Members,  Becky Martin, Leslie Moore, Diane Campbell, Sue Wood, Pam Zeigler and Iowa ASCD Executive Director Lou Howell.

The Area of Excellence Awards recognize affiliate achievement in a specific area of affiliate work. This year's award recipients are Maine ASCD for excellence in communications and publications and South Carolina ASCD for excellence in influence and policy.

ASCD affiliates are a great way to meet with and learn from local educators in your region. Through affiliate membership, you can explore state and local education issues, hone your leadership skills, and participate in professional development opportunities.
Register Now for ASCD Curriculum Leadership Academy - April 21-22 - Featuring Rick Wormeli

Iowa ASCD is proud to present the 14th Annual Curriculum Leadership Academy, "Students as Partners:  A Focus on Learning."  Whether you are a curriculum director, a principal, a superintendent, a teacher, or a teacher leader with curriculum responsibilities, this Academy is designed for you!! Join us on April 21 as we feature Dr. Rick Wormeli, expert on Differentiated Instruction. On April 22, Dr. Scott McLeod will present information on Personalized Learning, and school districts from across the state of Iowa will share their experiences on differentiated instruction and personalized learning.

Conference Location:  Iowa Events Center, 730 Third Street, Des Moines, IA

Cost: 
  • $250 for Iowa ASCD members
  • $295 for non-members   Nonmembers receive complimentary one-year membership in Iowa ASCD.
  • Cost includes continental breakfast and lunch each day.
Register NOW!  Contact Bridget Arrasmith with name(s) of registrant(s), mailing address, e-mail address(es), phone number as well as check or purchase order.  She may be reached at the following address:
  • Iowa ASCD, Drake University, School of Education, Room 123, 3206 University Avenue, Des Moines, IA  50311  
  • Phone: 515.271.1872
  • FAX: 515.271.2233
  • E-mail: [email protected]
 
You may register online as well with a credit card at the following URL on the Iowa ASCD website: 
 

Lodging Opportunities:  (Be sure to ask for Iowa ASCD rate and reserve by March 21)
  • Marriott Downtown ($125), 700 Grand Avenue, Des Moines, IA (800-228-9290 or 515-245-5500)
  • Quality Inn and Suites ($109), 929 3rd Street, Des Moines, IA (515-282-5251)

Thursday, April 21     Registration 7:30 - 8:30 with conference from 8:30 A.M. - 3:30 P.M.)
 
  • Featuring Dr. Rick Wormeli, Differentiated Instruction: Myth-Busting, Principles, and Practicalities
Differentiated instruction is a nice idea, but do we really believe what isn't always equal, and is it okay to do different things with different students? Being sensitive to students' readiness levels and learning differences while holding them accountable for the same standards can be a challenge. What works? Join us for a provocative and entertaining address from an international presenter that examines differentiating instruction for diverse learners while maintaining a semblance of teacher sanity in today's classroom realities. Topics include: differentiated lesson design, tiering, scaffolding, personal learning, responding to advanced students, practical cognitive science principles, descriptive feedback, correcting misconceptions of differentiation, and more. Candid yet validating, the presentation busts differentiated instruction myths and gets to our core beliefs as educators. Don't miss this chance to finally understand differentiated instruction!
  
Friday, April 22 - Breakout Sessions and Afternoon Keynote  (8:30 A.M. - 2:30 P.M.)
 
    School Districts of all sizes from across the state who are focusing on personalized learning or differentiated instruction:

    • Personalized Learning: Putting the Unique Pieces Together for All Students (Dr. Theron J. Schutte & Jennifer Like - Bettendorf)
    • Keeping the Main Thing the Main Thing: AIW Targets High Quality Student Learning (Hope Bossard - Gilbert)
    • Blending Instruction to Meet Our Students' Needs (Gregory O'Connell - Cedar Rapids)
    • Student-Driven Learning in a Primary Classroom (Leka DeGroot - Spirit Lake)
    • Iowa BIG: Driving Learning through Passion, Community, and Authentic Projects (Dr. Trace Pickering - Iowa BIG)
    • Tips on Creating a Balanced Assessment System that Supports Student Learning (Tricia Kurtt - Norwalk)
    • Leveraging Your Business Community for Innovative Classroom Experiences (Russ Goerend - Waukee)
    • Our Kids: Prairie's Path to a COMMITed, Student-Focused School Culture (Erik Anderson - College Community)
    • Using Technology to Individualize Formative Assessment (Christine Mangrich & Brian Unruh - Cedar Falls)
    • Differentiating Instruction during Summer School (Sandy Klaus - Starmont)
    • Systematizing Reading Instruction with the Cognitive Model (Laura Medberry - College Community)
    • Classroom Partnerships, a Journey Connecting Content and Careers (Shelly Vanyo - Boone)
    • Personalized Learning Made Easy (Julie Graber - Prairie Lakes AEA)
    • The Heart of Personalized Learning (Alison Zmuda,
      Education Consultant - Virginia Beach, VA & Pernille Ripp, Teacher and Creator of the Global Read Aloud Project - Oregon, WI) - A Virtual Breakout Session
    • Keynote in the Afternoon by Dr. Scott McLeod, Personalized Learning: Exemplars and Pitfalls
We now have over 500 "deeper learning" schools across the United States. This session will feature numerous examples  of personalized learning in practice. Bring your thinking caps as we discuss both exemplars and pitfalls.
Manny Scott - A Freedom Writer Kid - New Heart for the Hopeless

ASCD's Laura Varlas shares a summary of the presentation of Keynoter Manny Scott.

"I was the kid you saw coming from a block away, the one who made you cross the street or turn the other way."

Manny Scott's childhood was scorched by the effects of addiction, violence, incarceration, and poverty. Not counting the streets, he lived in 26 places before he turned 16 years old. Such frequent moves meant that, "at some point, I was in a school just like yours," he told the crowd at his conference-opening keynote.

Now a celebrated author, highly sought after speaker, and founder of the educational consulting firm INK, Scott remembers a childhood brimming with despair. "I was a little boy with a big rage simmering inside me," he reflected. "I looked for hope everywhere." But instead of refuge, school was a constant rebuke and reminder that he was on the path to prison, "just like your daddy."

End of Story

School taught Scott that "poverty is not just a lack of money; it's a lack of access to the kinds of people who can help you make something out of your life."

"I was the dumb kid, the smelly kid, the less-than kid. So I did everything to avoid that pain-I stopped going to school." At some point, every educator is called to reach kids that seem unreachable. By recounting his experiences as that kid, Scott sought to give conference attendees "perspective, a new lens, and maybe a new heart" for their work with kids.

The brutal murder of his best friend and a 0.6 GPA finally pushed Scott past all hope, and he dropped out in his freshman year of high school. "Sitting on a park bench, I became certain that the last paragraph of my life was about to be penned."

But then a total stranger begged Scott to persevere, which spurred him to go back to school and plead for his right to a quality education. He found more people-principals, teachers, coaches, and even a lunch lady-who believed in him. His first semester back at school, he earned five As and two Bs. "Sometimes you have to believe in someone else's belief in you until your belief sets in," Scott said.

Turning the Page

Scott went from high school drop out to the honor roll because he found caring educators who matched their message of hope with the help he needed to climb out of his circumstances. The major motion picture Freedom Writers tells the story of Scott and his classmates' experiences with one of those teachers. Amid bets on how quickly she would break down, Ms. G. kept showing up and trying new ways to reach her "unreachable" students.

Show up for your students, but in the process, you must also study them, Scott explained. "If there's anything in you creating barriers to them, work on that first." For example, Tupac and Snoop can be allies in teaching antithesis and iambic pentameter, if you're open to letting them share space with Shakespeare. "Don't lower your standards; change your methods to get your students up to your standards."

Rewriting Futures

Teachers like Ms. G. helped Scott find his voice and use it to write his way into college-now he's on his way to earning a PhD. With his family joining him on stage, Scott returned to his main message. "When you see me, I want you to remember that your work is not in vain and can ripple for generations."

"Even on your worst day, you can be someone's best hope."

 
Be Sure to Vote for Iowa ASCD President-Elect and Board of Directors - Today Is Last Day to Vote!

It is time to elect your leaders for Iowa ASCD for 2016-2017.  Candidates for the two positions include the following:

President-Elect (Vote for 1):
  • Diane Campbell, Consultant at Mississippi Bend AEA 9
  • Susan Pecinovsky, Associate Superintendent at Marshalltown Community School District

Directors for Members at Large (Vote for 2):

  • Diane Campbell, Consultant at Mississippi Bend AEA 9
  • Linda Craddick, Teacher at Central DeWitt Community School District
  • David Fox, High School Principal at Waverly-Shell Rock Community School District
  • Fran McVeigh, Consultant at Great Prairie AEA
  • Erik Smith, Secondary Principal at Nashua-Plainsfield Community School District
  • Jason Toenges, Secondary Principal at Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn Community School District
See also the ballot sent to you on March 1 that provides descriptions of each candidate.

Thank you for sharing your voice by voting now at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/IowaASCDElection2016


   
Excellence for Every Student with Pedro Noguera and Alan Blankstein

In the Saturday General Session at the ASCD annual conference in Atlanta, Georgia, leading advocates for equity in education Pedro Noguera and Alan Blankstein described how schools can establish the right condition for all students to achieve.  ASCD's Kim Greene shared the following:

"Equity is the issue of our times," said Alan Blankstein during Saturday afternoon's General Session. Pointing to recent events in cities like Ferguson, Mo., and Flint, Mich., he said, "Our children are experiencing great trials and challenges due to the underlying issues of inequity-all for being born onto lonely islands of economic despair surrounded by vast oceans of wealth and prosperity."

And nowhere are these struggles quite as apparent as they are in public schools. "Wherever you see concentrated poverty, you almost always see schools that are struggling," Noguera said.

Noguera highlighted the difference between equality and equity. Equality means giving all students the same thing in the spirit of fairness. Equity, on the other hand, means giving students what they need to be successful-whether academically or socially-and recognizing that no two students are the same. Noguera recounted what a fellow conference attendee told him: "Giving everyone a shoe is equality. Making sure the shoe fits is equity."

Noguera and Blankstein know that there are schools where equity is at the heart of educators' work and students' race and socioeconomic status don't predict their success. In these schools, students are engaged and teachers know how to meet their students' needs. "We've got to shine the light on them to make good teaching apparent," said Noguera.

Take Brockton High School in Brockton, Mass., for example. Situated in a lower-income, lower-class town, roughly 75 percent of the school's students were expected to fail the state's high-stakes exam when it was implemented in 2002, according to Noguera. Instead, teachers recognized the needs of their students-some 60 percent of whom are English language learners-and rolled out literacy initiatives across the content areas. Today, as Noguera noted, 90 percent of the school's students pass the most rigorous state exam in the country, meaning they receive free scholarships to any public university in the state. "The teachers met the kids where they were," he said. "If you can do that at Brockton, you can do that anywhere in the country."

In schools like these, teachers are masters of the part-skill, part-art practice of culturally responsive teaching. They not only understand pedagogy but also possess cultural competence. They tap into and affirm students' cultures, knowing that students with a strong, positive sense of cultural identity often perform higher academically and have better developmental outcomes. These teachers also check their implicit biases at the door. "Schools have to be stereotype-free zones where kids believe they can be anything," said Noguera.

And if there's another "e" in excellence, it's engagement. The speakers stressed the importance of engaging all students on behavioral, cognitive, and affective levels because disengagement quickly spirals downward from task to subject matter to school to society. To encourage engagement, Blankstein offered suggestions, such as allowing for expanded access to Advanced Placement and honors classes and providing students with alternate routes to success.
Blankstein also recommended that schools examine their practices-such as those pertaining to lateness, truancy, homework, and discipline-with equity in mind, for instance. Consider when a teacher assigns homework about material she has not yet covered in class, he said. A student's shot at success hinges on family support at home-whether that student is the child of two parents with PhDs or a child who doesn't have a home. "It's equal, but it's unfair," Blankstein said.

"Pervasive inequality makes the pursuit of equity difficult but essential," said Noguera. "It's not easy, but it can be done. Under the right kinds of conditions, all kids can learn. Our job is to create those conditions."
Candidates in the ASCD General Membership Election for Board of Directors - Be Sure to Vote If You Are a Member of ASCD! 

Candidates in ASCD's General Membership Election of Board Members

Candidates for ASCD's Board of Directors are in alphabetical order. Click on each candidate's name to see their biographical information and view a personal video.

PJ Caposey Ember Conley Lou Howell 
PJ Caposey Ember Conley Lou Howell 
 Melanie Kay-Wyatt  Thomas Tramaglini  
 Melanie Kay-Wyatt  Thomas Tramaglini  

Compare the Candidates

Compare the candidates' backgrounds and interview responses in the 2016 General Membership Election document.



The election is only online. Have your ASCD membership number on hand in order to make the process easy.

Go to www.ascd.org/vote by April 30, 2016, to cast your ballot.
  • You will be prompted to enter your Member ID and password.
  • Click on the Vote Now button at the bottom to connect to the ASCD secure online election system.
  • If you don't have your Member ID or password, contact the ASCD Service Center at 1-800-933-ASCD (2723) and then press 1, or send an e-mail to [email protected].
 
 
Carol Dweck - Growth Mindset - "On the Road to Growth"

ASCD's Laura Varlas shared the following summary of Carol Dweck's, author of Growth Mindset, presentation at a general session at the ASCD Annual Conference in Atlanta,Georgia.

Carol Dweck, a growth mindset psychologist and author, ignited a motivation revolution with her concept that individuals can develop their intelligence through strategic effort.

Educators learned the power of praising not the person ("You're so smart!") but the processes that led to learning ("I like that you discussed which parts were unclear.").

Mission accomplished, right? "In the good old days, my team thought growth mindset was a simple concept that was easy to attain, and once adults understood it, they could easily pass it on to students."

Always growing herself, Dweck confessed to her General Session audience on Sunday that it hasn't been so straightforward. As her research evolves, Dweck emphasizes mindset work as a journey and highlights particular places where understanding of the concept has gone off track. 

You Are Here

Instead of having either a growth or a fixed mindset, we are all a mix of both. "Our task," said Dweck,"is to be in more of a growth mindset more of the time." Why is this worth the effort?
 
Dweck's research has shown that growth mindset helps children confront challenges more effectively. When growth concepts are explicitly taught and matched with supportive teaching behaviors, students make significant learning strides. In one study of 10th graders in Chile, students across income levels did better in language and math after receiving training on growth mindset.

"Growth mindsets are teachable, and it's never too late learn," Dweck affirmed. Her research has shown gains for students receiving interventions in high schools and community colleges, where many students never escape the churn of remedial courses. 

The Backseat Driver 

If a growth mindset is so great, why aren't we always in it? "So many things in our environment trigger us into a fixed mindset. It's the same for our students." For example, effort, challenge, and especially setbacks can be triggers for many students. "They give up because they think,  'This should come naturally, and I don't want to look dumb.'" On the other hand, growth-oriented students crave challenge. "When you love learning, errors are intriguing."

The first step in moving toward a growth mindset is acknowledging that we are all prone to fixed thinking and being alert to what triggers this mindset. Notice which students or student behaviors trigger you to have fixed assessments of their abilities. Get to know your fixed mindset persona - when it shows up, how it makes you feel, and how that affects your behavior, relationships, and goals, advised Dweck.

"Don't judge that fixed persona - just observe it and, over time, educate it and enlist it in the learning process." 

Detours Ahead 

Another misconception about growth mindsets is that they require sheer effort. It creates false hope to tell students to keep trying and they'll get it, Dweck explained. Growth requires developing strategies and knowing how and when to seek extensive input from others, in addition to effort. Instead of telling students to work harder, say, "What strategies did you try? Tell me about your thinking. Let's sit down together and see if we can figure out what to do next."

"I believe students can do anything, but not just because we say that to them. We need to give them the knowledge, skills, strategies, and resources to get there." 

Share the Road 

Endorsing a growth mindset doesn't mean you automatically pass that belief to your students. Research shows the teachers who impart growth are those who teach for conceptual understanding, give extensive feedback that increases understanding, treat failures as beneficial to learning, and give students opportunities to revise their work.

  Growth mindset is a journey. By lining up our talk with our walk - the way we learn, teach, and lead - Dweck is confident we'll take our students with us.

World-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck, in decades of research on achievement and success, has discovered a truly groundbreaking idea-the power of our mindset.
Flip Your Class! A Lot Has Changed! 

When flipped learning pioneers Jon Bergmann and Aarons Sams first uploaded educational videos to YouTube during the 2006-07 school year, it was a novel idea, said Sams during the pair's Sunday session titled "Flip This, Flip That." Since that time, many teachers have embraced the concept of students prelearning content on their own and using class time to practice and engage in activities.

But the flipped learning movement is entering its second decade, and a lot has changed. "We're rapidly approaching the point where the [opinion] of using videos as a teaching tool is 'Of course we're going to do that. Why wouldn't I leverage that power in my classroom?'" said Sams. "The challenge becomes how we do that appropriately."

For his part, Bergmann feels it's important for flipped learning to go beyond the "early adopters" and to reach the "mass of teachers."

"We have to figure out how to simplify," he said. "It's so important that we have simple ways for teachers to create videos."

With that in mind, Bergmann and Sams offered several practical strategies for educators to implement flipped learning in their schools. For instance, Bergmann demonstrated a practice called peer instruction, which was developed by Harvard University physics professor Eric Mazur.

Then, session participants watched a video about gravity, after which Bergmann presented a multiple-choice question. Participants held up custom-printed sheets of paper from plickers.com to indicate their responses. Bergmann quickly waved his smartphone around the room to capture participants' responses. In doing so, he collected data about the whole group's response as well as individual responses. He found that many of them didn't understand the concept in question.

So, he asked participants to pair up to discuss the rationale behind their answers and then answer the question again. He scanned the room a second time; this time, the majority of participants responded correctly.

Bergmann and Sams also suggested tools that allow users to embed videos and ask their own questions, including Zaption, Office Mix, eduCanon (now known as PlayPosit), and EDpuzzle.
In addition to these easy-to-implement strategies, Bergmann offered 12 common mistakes that first-time flippers make-with the hopes of helping educators make a smooth transition to flipping their classrooms. Here are a few of those mistakes:
  • Making videos too long. Keep them to one or one-and-a-half minutes per grade level-for example, a four- to six-minute video is appropriate for 4th graders. For high school, don't exceed 15 minutes. 
  • Not making your own content. It's OK to curate content, especially as you get your feet wet, but Bergmann says that appearing in your own videos will build on the relationship you have with students. 
  • Not getting stakeholders involved. Are your students' parents confused about flipped learning? Try to flip your back-to-school night. 
  • Not making class time meaningful and purposeful. Both Bergmann and Sams spoke to the importance of using class time for higher-order skills at the top of Bloom's Taxonomy. "Anything that ends in -ation," said Sams. "Conversation, creation, evaluation.
Check It Out!  Did You Know? 

  • A Blog for Teachers:  Energy and Brain Breaks:  Dr. Lori Desautels shares classroom management "best practices" for energizing and calming your students.
     
  • Go-Noodle provides "brain breaks" for kids - getting kids to move and focus to be their strongest, bravest, silliest, smartest, bestest selves.
  • Mindset Kit is a free set of online lessons and practices designed to help you teach and foster adaptive beliefs about learning.
  • Nominate before April 25 a teacher for the Iowa Teacher of the Year.  Nomination forms may be found on the Iowa Department of Education's website: https://www.educateiowa.gov/pk-12/award-exchange-programs/iowa-teacher-year-toy . The Iowa Teacher of the Year award was established in 1958.  The annual program is sponsored by the Iowa Department of Education through a appropriation from the Iowa Legislature.  The Teacher of the Year serves as an ambassador to education and as a liaison to primary and secondary schools, higher education and organizations across the state.
  • Free On-Line School Improvement Survey available to all districts.  ASCD, the global leader in developing and delivering innovative programs, products, and services that empower educators to support the success of each learner, has unveiled the free, online ASCD School Improvement Tool, which is based on a whole child approach to education.

    Designed for use in schools and school systems around the world, and ideal for schools developing and refining strategic plans, the online tool offers educators a comprehensive needs assessment as they embark on the new school year. Additionally, it connects administrators and teacher leaders with targeted professional development resources-books, online courses, and action tools-that can help them make the most significant schoolwide improvements and ensure all learners are healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged.

    Found online at http://sitool.ascd.org, this tool launches a 15-minute survey that evaluates a school's strengths and weaknesses in areas of
    • School climate and culture,
    • Curriculum and instruction,
    • Leadership,
    • Family and community engagement,
    • Professional development and staff capacity,
    • Assessment, and
    • Ability to provide and sustain a whole child approach to education across all aspects of the school
  • Consider an Iowa ASCD institutional membership for your building, district, or AEA.  The fee is $25 per person when you enroll at least 20 people at one time.  Great benefits!  Contact Lou Howell for more information.
  • Are you a student in a graduate program?  If so, you may get a membership for three years for $45.  Contact Lou Howell for more information.
  • Are you a student in a pre-service program?  If so, you may get a one-year membership for $15.  Contact Lou Howell for more information.
Book for You 24/7! 

All Iowa ASCD members have access to these 30 books 24/7 in 2016.  If you have forgotten your password to these resources, please contact Lou Howell at [email protected].

A webinar has also been recorded to help you better use the resources.  It is located on the front page of the Iowa ASCD website.  You may review or download this recorded webinar now!

 
Webinars for Learning
 
Iowa ASCD seeks to keep you informed of 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 the implementation of The Core.
 
  • Title: Steps to Becoming a Highly Effective Teacher
    • Presenter: Jeff Marshall
    • Provider:  ASCD
    • Date and Time: Thursday, April 21 at 2:00 P.M. (CDT)
    • Register Here 

  • Title:  Intentional and Targeted Teaching:  A Framework for Teacher Growth and Leadership
    • Presenters:  Doug Fisher and Nancy Frey  
    • Provider:  ASCD
    • Date and Time:  May 10, 2:00 P.M. (CDT)
    • Register Here

Be sure to check out the archived webinar on ESSA by David Griffith and Megan Wolfe - Everything You Need to Know about ESSA.
 
ASCD Offers a "Slow Chat" - Focused on the Empowerment of Student!

ASCD is offering a pilot of a new form of virtual professional development, ASCD Topic Teams, which will celebrate its inaugural launch next Monday, April 18
th on Twitter, using the hashtag #ASCDtopics.
 
ASCD Topic teams are designed to promote immediate, real-time discussion around high-interest topics of relevance to educators. The first topic will be student empowerment, facilitated by ASCD author and classroom practitioner Starr Sackstein. Starr will lead a month-long examination of strategies to empower students, developing their own voice and becoming leaders both in and out of the classroom.
 
Designed as a "slow chat," each day Starr will post a new question on Twitter using the #ASCDtopics hashtag, inviting educators to respond, share their experiences and insights, and learn from each other.

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Iowa ASCD is the source for developing instructional leadership and translating research into daily practice. Serving more than 1500 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.

Be Sure to Check Out . . .
Iowa ASCD - 2016 Overall Excellence Award
Curriculum Leadership Academy with Rick Wormeli
Manny Scott - New Heart for the Hopeless
Be Sure to Vote
Equity and Excellence - Noguera & Blanstein
Vote for ASCD Director Candidates
Carol Dweck - Growth Mindset
Flip Your Class!
Check It Out!
Books for You 24/7
Webinars for Learning
Slow Chat - Empowering Students
Iowa ASCD Twitter!
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President

Becky Martin

 

Past-President

Kevin Vidergar 

    

President-Elect

Pam Zeigler   

    

Membership and Conference Information

Bridget Arrasmith

 

Secretary

Leslie Moore 

 

Treasurer  

Jeff Watson  

 

Members-at-Large

  

Diane Campbell 

Ottie Maxey 

Sara Oswald 

 Katy Evenson 

 

DE Liaison

 Rita Martens  

 

Higher Education

Jan Beatty-Westerman 

Randal Peters 

 

Advocacy and Influence 

Susan Pecinovsky 

Elaine Smith-Bright  

 

Curriculum Leadership Academy

Sue Wood  

Pam Zeigler  

 

Fall Academy

 Veta Thode  

 

Fall Institute

Amy Whittington

 

Summer Institutes  

 Kym Stein 

 Becky Martin    

 

Partnership Chair

Jason Ellingson 

 

Technology

Chris Welch  

 

Membership Relations and E-Learning

Amy Wichman 

 

Executive Director

 Lou Howell   

 

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