Iowa Association of Alternative Education

We will be giving away over $400 in "Healthy Choices, Healthy Relationships" curriculum (1 per school) and training to teachers who can teach 8 lessons to 30 high school students during the 2010-2011 school year. It will take place at the Iowa FCS Conference on Monday, July 26th at the Jordan Creek Marriott.
If they have questions they can contact me by email or the phone number below. Numbers are limited to the first 25 qualified applicants.

Joyce Huff, CFCS, M.Ed.
Outreach Director
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316-721-1898

The May 2010 IAAE Newsletter is available now.

The Mandala highlights the talent of students across the state

Seventy-eight alternative high school students from ten schools/programs across the state of Iowa have had their artwork, photography, poetry, and narratives published in The Mandala, Iowa’s art and literary magazine for alternative high school students. The Iowa Association of Alternative Education (IAAE) and Northeast Iowa Alternative Teachers (NEAT), who are co-publishers of the magazine, congratulate these students from the following schools and programs:

7th Annual AERO (Alternative Education Resource Organization) Conference
June 24-27, 2010
Crowne Plaza Hotel
Albany, NY

Great Networking opportunities, Free Child care, Exclusive Film Screenings, Entertainment and more. Conference will feature Herbert Cole, John Taylor Gatto, Shilpa Jain, Mathew Davis and many more great educators willing to share and network to find pathways to maximize student success.

Registration/Information

The School Improvement Network is the leading provider of
comprehensive, research-based professional development. The Network works closely with schools and districts to ensure that best practices are implemented in the classroom.
Example: Block Scheduling
• Examine and consider the benefits of parallel and block scheduling.
• Reduce classroom discipline problems and improve academic performance.
• Learn how to develop a block schedule in your schools.

Traditional and Alternative Education in India

The broad aim of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan is to provide useful and
relevant elementary education to all children in the 6 to 14 age group by 2010 and to bridge social, regional and gender gaps, with the active participation of the community in the management of schools.

The following are the specific objectives of SSA :

All children in School, Education Guarantee Centre, Alternate School or 'Back-to-School' camp by 2005.

Contributors include:
Sharon Caldwell, Riane Eisler, John Taylor Gatto, David Gribble,
Yaacov Hecht, Helen Hegener, Matt Hern, Helen Hughes, Don “Four
Arrows” Jacobs, Mark Jacobs, Herbert Kohl, Mary Leue, Dennis Littky,
Deborah Meier, Chris Mercogliano, Ron Miller, Jerry Mintz, Pat
Montgomery, Susan Ohanian, Kirsten Olson, Wendy Priesnitz, Carlo
Ricci, Tim Seldin, Herb Snitzer, Len Solo, Lynn Stoddard, and Zoe
Weil.
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For the fourth year we are offering the AERO Start a School 101 online course. Many new schools were started by participants of these courses. You can see some of the schools which AERO has helped to start at this site.

For the third year we are also offering The History and Theory of
Alternative Education online course led again by Dr. Ron Miller. We are very pleased that Ron will offer this course again. Last year's students were very pleased with what they learned in this course.

Need Your HELP: Success Stories of Alternative Schools and Students in Iowa.