All Things Keystone - Apr
April LEA Administrators Report
Have you registered for KPEC 2018 to be held June 18 & 19?
Early Bird Registration closes in less than one month!
Registration information here!
Keynoters: LaVonna Roth & Buddy Berry
Featured Speaker: Kim Hopkins, Associate of Dr. Ross Greene.
Important Dates and Information
Group Buys (also known as mini-grants) are open for enrollment.
Copyright and Fair Use Resource
FASTBridge-Deadline to participate in Fall
As you might recall, Iowa’s Area Education Agencies announced that the AEAs will subsidize costs for districts to upgrade their DE provided FastBridge (FAST) subscriptions to include additional functionality in the areas of mathematics and behavior.
As a reminder, the deadline for 2018-19 participation (beginning fall 2018) is June 15, 2018. You can indicate your interest in participating in the fall assessments here .
Also, many districts have started preparing for the spring and fall implementation for these assessments by participating in these upcoming webinars. Please be sure to register to participate in these webinars. A recording of each training session will be shared after each session.
National School Walkout Day is planned for April 20th, at 10 AM (planned as an all-day walkout). This also represents the 19th anniversary of the Columbine shooting. Nearly 2,000 walkout events are registered on their website — you can search them here. April 20th has also been designated the Day of Action Against Gun Violence in Schools. Learn more at ProtectOurSchools.com.
Special Ed Updates
Secondary Transition Responsibilities - this letter from the Dept of Ed outlines districts' responsibilities related to work readiness skills for students on IEPs.
Parent Survey Reminder - please be sure this information is sent out to all families in your district. Directions Parent Letter Parent Letter Spanish
Hearing/Vision Guidance - this document outlines how teams can support students who have vision or hearing services in their IEPs.
Non-Public Consultation - Keystone's annual consultation meeting for all districts with an accredited non-public school within their boundaries is April 12 at 1PM via zoom. Here is the agenda for our meeting which includes the zoom link.
Summer Autism Training Information
Updates by Specialty Area
Positive Psychology 101
Tesha Ruley
563-245-1480 ext. 1303
563-880-0430 (Cell)
Twitter: @TeshaAnneRuley
Annette Hyde
Keystone AEA Website Accessibility Statement
Keystone AEA Website Accessibility Statement
It is the goal of Keystone Area Education Agency that the information on our website be accessible to individuals with visual, hearing, or cognitive disabilities. Good faith efforts have been made to ensure that our site complies with the world wide web consortium's web content accessibility guidelines. The majority of our pages in our site are available in HTML format that can be deciphered by screen readers. Some documents are in Adobe PDF format, which require Adobe Acrobat Reader to view. If you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader on your computer, you can download it for free from the Adobe website. If you are unable to access any page(s) in our site, please email Keystone AEA at info@aea1.k12.ia.us with detailed information on the location of the page or document you were trying to access. Be sure to include your name, email address, and phone number so that we may contact you to provide the information in another format. Please note that some pages on the Keystone AEA website contain links to third party sites, which are not within our control and may not comply with accessibility standards. Keystone AEA is not responsible for the content or accessibility of third party sites.