by the numbers…
DESCRIPTION
30,000 students 8,000 square miles $30 million budget 270 staff members Serving: 40 Districts 11 Non-Public Schools 2 prisons, 2 juvenile facilities, 1 behavior school. By the numbers…. Perspectives…Des Moines Public Schools. 30,000 students 80 square miles $450 million budget - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
BY THE NUMBERS…
30,000 students 8,000 square
miles $30 million
budget 270 staff
members Serving:
40 Districts 11 Non-Public Schools 2 prisons, 2 juvenile
facilities, 1 behavior school
• 30,000 students• 80 square miles• $450 million budget• Serving: 1 district, 68 schools, 1
board
Perspectives…Des Moines Public Schools
Gary Astor
•Fort Dodge•Alta•Gilmore City-Bradgate•Newell-Fonda•Pocahontas Area•Odebolt-Arthur•Schaller-Crestland•Storm Lake
Steve Jimmerson
Rick Morain
•East Sac County•Greene County•MNW•P-C•Prairie Valley•South Central Calhoun
Todd Lundgren
Sue Brown
Pat Brown
•Eagle Grove•Fort Dodge•SEW-Grand•Stratford
•Algona•Clarion-Goldfield-Dows•Emmetsburg•Humboldt•LuVerne•North Union•Titonka
Dean Saunders
•Albert City-Truesdale•Clay Central/Everly•Harris-Lake Park•Laurens-Marathon•Ruthven/Ayrshire•Sioux Central•Spencer•Twin Rivers•West Bend-Mallard
•Estherville Lincoln Central•Graettinger-Terril•North Kossuth•Okoboji•Spirit Lake
OUR WORK – WHAT WE DO
Special Education (80%) Closing the gap; getting
RESULTS Expanding our mission
Educational Services (10%) Focus on early literacy (C4K) Iowa Core thru Conceptual
Teaching & Learning
Media & Technology (10%) Resources!! Integrating technology into
instruction
SPECIAL EDUCATION Special education is specially
designed instruction, support, and services provided to students with an identified disability requiring an individually designed instructional program to meet their unique learning needs.
The purpose of special education is to enable students to successfully develop to their fullest potential. Services are provided for children birth through the age of 21 and can be accessed through requests made by parents or school personnel
SPECIAL EDUCATION TEAMS & SERVICES Academic strategists Audiologists Behavior strategists Occupational therapists Physical therapists Speech-language
pathologists School psychologist School social workers Special Education
consultants Vision
Autism Assistive Technology Behavior Brain Injury Early Childhood Transition
EDUCATIONAL SERVICES Instructional support services include a wide variety of services and consultation. which include: Curriculum
Literacy Math Science
Data Iowa Core Leadership development Professional development
AEA PD ONLINE
Learning Modules: stand-alone, compliance-oriented
Mandatory child abuse reporting
OSHA compliance Section 504
Self-Paced Courses - designed for educators who want to start and complete a course on their own schedule.
License renewal Substitute authorization Paraeducator renewal
AEAs support… 39 districts (2014-15) Adult Learning Collaborative Culture Communication Content/Pedagogy/Assessment Systems Thinking Data Organizational Leadership
MEDIA
Any educator in PLAEA & NWAEA can check-out resources from the two AEAs. There are 89,823 items in the collection with 139,929 copies. (Value = $7 million.) Materials distributed amongst Fort Dodge, Sioux City and Sioux Center - about 56,000 miles a year.
Weekly delivery to all school and AEA buildings for a total of 130 stops - about 32,000 miles a year.
Iowa AEA Online is a virtual library that provides no-cost access to 14 high-quality, web-based resources for accredited public and non-public PreK-12 schools. Students and staff have access at school and at home.
Iowa AEA Online is funded and supported by Iowa's AEAs.
Magazines Newspapers eBooks Encyclopedias - English and
Spanish
Videos- Over 9,000 educational videos from top educational producers.
Photos, Music & Clipart Software Training
Plus literary writings, dictionaries, maps, almanacs, biographies, web links, government documents, historic documents, information on weather, health, careers, business and more.
PRINT & PRODUCTION
PLAEA Video Suite Banners Posters Planners Letterhea
d Stationery Envelopes Cards Forms Yearbooks
Programs Newsletter
s Calendars Tickets Handbook
s Journals Certificate
s Signs
TECHNOLOGY
Infrastructure - tools E-mail hosting E-mail spam & virus
filtering Computer recycling Network planning Remote back-up Website hosting
Integration – instruction Interactive Personalized Timely On-going Focused on learning,
not the technology FUN!!
OUR FOCUS - 2014-15
1. Literacy Each child will be a skilled reader as measured by proficiency on
the Iowa Assessments (current proficiency 73.4%) Our youngest children will experience an increase in the amount
of time that adults talk to them and increase the amount of time adults read to them.
2. Closing the Achievement Gap We will reduce the gap between children in special education
and general education as well as any other gaps that exist between subgroups.
100% of our children will achieve one year’s growth in one year’s time.
WE ARE READY…
“We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.”
President John F. Kennedy, Rice UniversitySept. 12, 1962
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