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Apple Teacher
Apple Teacher
Apple Teacher is a free professional learning program designed to support and celebrate educators using Apple products for teaching and learning. As an educator, you can build skills on iPad and Mac that directly apply to activities with your students, earn recognition for the new things you learn, and be rewarded for the great work you do every day.
To learn more about the iPad and becoming an Apple Teacher. Please go to:
Have a great summer!
Please contact a Instructional Coach to set up Coaching Cycles for 2018-19!
Summer Reading List
2018 Reading Recommendations: Professional Development
Culturize: Every Student. Every Day. Whatever It Takes. by Jimmy Casas
In Culturize, Jimmy Casas shares insights into what it takes to cultivate a community of learners who embody the innately human traits our world desperately needs, such as kindness, honesty, and compassion.
Shifting the Monkey: The Art of Protecting Good People from Liars, Criers, and Other Slackers by Todd Whitaker
Poor employees get a disproportionate amount of attention. Why? Because they complain the loudest, create the greatest disruptions, and rely on others to assume the responsibilities that they shirk. Learn how to focus on your good employees first and help them shift these “monkeys” back to the underperformers.
Teach Like a Pirate: Increase Student Engagement, Boost Your Creativity, and Transform Your Life as an Educator by Dave Burgess
Based on Dave Burgess’s popular “Outrageous Teaching” and “Teach Like a PIRATE” seminars, this book offers inspiration, practical techniques, and innovative ideas.
Teach Like Finland: 33 Simple Strategies for Joyful Classrooms by Timothy D. Walker
From incorporating brain breaks to offering a peaceful learning environment, this book pulls back the curtain on the joyful teaching practices of the world’s most lauded school system.
The Innovator’s Mindset: Empower Learning, Unleash Talent, and Lead a Culture of Creativity by George Couros
George Couros encourages teachers and administrators to empower their learners to wonder, to explore—and to become forward-thinking leaders.
Introducing a New Professional Learning Registration System from Iowa’s AEAs
Iowa’s AEAs and AEA Learning Online have collaborated to move our individual professional learning and licensure registration systems to one statewide professional learning registration system. It creates greater equity and consistency in programming and resources to help support quality professional learning.
HOW DO I LOGIN?
- Your login information is the same information that you use to log into https://training.aealearningonline.org.
- Please contact shannon.johnson@gpaea.org or julie.hannam@gpaea.org if you need help locating your username and password. We appreciate your patience during this time of transition.
HOW DO I SEARCH FOR A COURSE?
- Login and click on ‘Courses’ in the top bar
- You will have the option to Search, Show All, or Advanced Search
- To view courses offered by Great Prairie AEA, click on Advanced Search – AEA – Great Prairie AEA (All GPAEA Courses will have the letters ‘GP’ following the course number
HOW DO I ACCESS TRANSCRIPTS?
- Print an OFFICIAL Transcript from the AEA Professional Learning Registration System. Simply login and scroll down to View and Print Transcripts.
- Learn more at https://www.gpaea.org/professional-development/transcripts/
- Contact michelle.dickey@gpaea.org with questions.
HOW DO I PAY FOR A COURSE?
- The new registration system accepts two forms of payment: Purchase Orders and Credit Cards.
- Please email Shannon Johnson, shannon.johnson@gpaea.org, or Julie Hannam julie.hannam@gpaea.org, if you need assistance.
Central Lee Community School District
Email: media@centrallee.org
Website: www.centrallee.org
Phone: 319-835-5121
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Twitter: @CentralLeeCSD