Stratford
Your Partners from Prairie Lakes AEA
Building Coordinator - Jill Seifken
A Building Coordinator will serve as the point of contact for your buildings in all of your school improvement/MTSS/ESSA work. A Building Coordinator will work with your leadership teams to help carry out ESSA plans, PD plans, analyze data, examine healthy indicators, or secure additional resources needed to ensure all students are learning at high levels. This position will assist with building and systems considerations while meeting regularly with your leadership teams and monthly with the AEA staff serving your buildings.
Email: jsiefken@plaea.org
Phone: 515-705-7180
Twitter: @jillsiefken
Special Education Consultant - Karen Waid
Special Education Consultants are essential team members in the child find process and play an important role during evaluations in determining eligibility for special education services. They collaborate with team members to complete evaluations such as diagnostic academic assessments. In addition, they analyze data to assist teams in the development of Individualized Education Plans (IEP) and appropriate goals.
Email: kwaid@plaea.org
Phone: 515-606-7022
Special Education Consultant-Carol Riedesel-Bauer
Special Education Consultants are essential team members in the child find process and play an important role during evaluations in determining eligibility for special education services. They collaborate with team members to complete evaluations such as diagnostic academic assessments. In addition, they analyze data to assist teams in the development of Individualized Education Plans (IEP) and appropriate goals.
Email: crbauer@plaea.org
Phone: 515-705-7120
Academic Strategist-Haley Offerman
Academic Strategists are essential team members in the child find process and play an important role during evaluations in determining eligibility for special education services. They collaborate with team members to complete evaluations such as diagnostic academic assessments. In addition, they analyze data to assist teams in the development of Individualized Education Plans (IEP) and appropriate goals.
Email: hofferman@plaea.org
Phone: 515-606-7016
School Social Worker - Alicia Cassidy
School Social Workers are essential team members in the child find process and play an important role during evaluations in determining eligibility for special education services. They collaborate with team members to complete evaluations such as functional behavior assessments. In addition, they analyze data to assist teams in the development of intervention plans and individualized education plans with fidelity to improve social skills and appropriate behaviors.
Email: acassidy@plaea.org
Regional Administrator - Jenn Peter
Your Regional Administrator provides leadership to AEA staff to enable them to work effectively in support of local district improvement planning and implementation efforts. She serves as a resource to AEA staff, school administrators and school district staff on the collaborative problem solving process and AEA service delivery initiative. In addition, she provides guidance and best practice to meet the needs of districts, families, and students.
Email: jpeter@plaea.org
Phone: 515-206-7107
Your PLAEA Partners
Each school is served by a team of specialists from Prairie Lakes AEA that support Special Education, Early Childhood, Media, Technology, and areas including gifted/talented, literacy, math, social studies, and science. Click here to discover the PLAEA staff members who work with your school.
Chief Administrator
Jeff Herzberg
Educational Services Director
Pam Stangeland