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 * **Review of agenda, Updates ** || **Common understanding, Identification of additional items **** (Questions/Actions are listed below in red) ** || **Evan & Others ** || **90 ** ||
 * **Recording for Today's Session:**


 * Hiring Update**
 * Debroarh Humpal-Instructional Designer
 * Robert Brookhart-Instructional Designer
 * Nancy Movall-K-12 Learning Specialist (working under Green Hills AEA)
 * She will work under Green Hills salary schedule
 * Green Hills will provide the office space and computer
 * Evaluation process will also be under Green Hills

@https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmoN9aEdsjVAdFFMdDJER3V3N2lvaWNvS2NYNFdoTGc
 * Current Projects:**
 * Document lists the current projects
 * Who is assigned to the project
 * Deadline for the project

• Instructional Coaching • RTI • Online trainings (Webinars - 8/3 1:00, 8/7 10:00, 8/13 10:00)
 * • Iowa Core**
 * Project looks at the standards, currently just Math and ELA courses being prepared
 * Math people are Sandra Ubben and Susan Parker
 * This is professional development
 * There is a one-day and a three-day content training
 * One-day is online content used to
 * support a face-to-face training
 * could be used as a ramp to be used on your own with mentor support
 * Three-day section
 * Course offered for credit, as site-based or catalog course
 * It would be between a one and two credit course
 * Goal is to get remaining content prepared this fall
 * Possible that they Math course be ready this fall
 * ELA course would not be ready until January
 * The remainder would be completed this winter with a train-the-trainer course
 * Rob Brookhart is working on this project with the content specialist
 * Be looking for an email regarding train-the-trainer course will be offered
 * It is looking to be late September or early October
 * Possible a consultant or two from each AEA to attend this training
 * Content is available on the new Moodle server
 * This has been a goal to develop content and professional development around
 * One issue
 * Uncertainty about how it would be rolled out and the content
 * Would be needs for training around technical accuracy
 * On-demand professional development around RTI
 * This could possibly lead to additional professional development
 * Contacts are Dave Tilley and Sandra Anderson
 * Goal is to have something into proposal form prior to next meeting that outlines the direction that we would like to go
 * Some work with the Department of Education regarding the modules and technical accuracy
 * Rollout possibly in the spring
 * Evan will contact Shelly Neece from Heartland AEA prior to the September meeting
 * It is a tool that we could sit down and have half day trainings
 * Anything that can be provided web-based would be good
 * Retention from trainings is low because of lack of use
 * Would something similar to Atomic Learning would be very helpful
 * We have two different platforms
 * Online Learning System-Marv Howard
 * Reports that can be run allows
 * deadlines to be set
 * Certificates of Completion can be printed
 * We are trying to work out the bugs, so it is not to the efficiency level we would like
 * Content is text and imaged based
 * Moodle System-Peggy Steinbronn/Evan Abbey
 * Content is easy to upload
 * Courses can be created in a Moodle shell, this would allow us to upload video
 * There would not be a log in
 * Several people could create the content
 * Certificate feature can be added to Moodle, but unsure about a report feature
 * The effort is being funded by the unified formula of the AEA budget
 * If you pay into the system, you have access to the system
 * If you do not pay into the system, you do not have access to the system at no fee
 * Should we control access to this training through this system and require them to pay.
 * This information was sent out to the local AEAs and it was forwarded onto the districts that they serve
 * Several trainings are in the test system and will be rolled out shortly
 * Cultural Competence
 * HIPPA
 * T-Pack
 * Harassment training
 * Email recovery will be turned on in the next couple of weeks
 * This will allow users to recover the username and password by email from the Online Learning System

• Equella
 * Tiffany and Brian will oversee the upkeep and management
 * AEAs will provide a group of names that would serve on a steering committee for the repository
 * They will look at policy issues
 * How the database will be structured
 * How the information will be stored
 * Possible partnerships
 * Meeting will be either August 15 or August 16
 * Looking at how AEAs will be represented
 * Evan will suggest that Nancy Movall and Peggy Steinbronn be included in this meeting
 * If you have any suggested participants, please let Evan know.
 * How will the authentication work?
 * Evan or Tiffany will look into this question
 * Something that will need to be ironed out by the committee
 * Iowa CoPI**
 * Survey of individuals covered by the ARRA grant
 * Creation, improvement, or acquisition of quality Common Core-aligned content
 * Evan and Peggy have taken over this task
 * What are the obligations of the AEA
 * How will the content be made available
 * Vetting of contributed content
 * Development of professional development opportunities
 * Infrastructure to deliver content
 * Please see the attached handouts for additional information
 * Feedback regarding the Initiative
 * Delivery of Professional Development Community
 * Who is the target, community members or non-community members?
 * It might be a little unclear to just community members and who is not
 * We would want to extend appropriate professional development opportunities across the state
 * PD opportunities will vary
 * Three different venues
 * Formal method-courses on how to teach different topics
 * There may be face-to-face sessions
 * Informal method
 * Threaded discussion on social network of choice
 * Webinars or round-table discussions
 * Non-formal
 * Chatter level to raise awareness and create chatter
 * Do we know what is going on in our districts?
 * How does this interface with what is currently going on in our AEAs?
 * This instance is specifically around blended or online curriculum. It is not a "super" community, it may cross-pollinate across discussions. The goal is not to be the one place around the Iowa Core.
 * We are focusing in on the technology and not the vehicle, however; this is the same issue we have around one-to-one.
 * Are we asking them to join another group?
 * How do we get this out to superintendents before the teachers?
 * Joint Directors and Chief Administrators update each month
 * Communication/Marketing
 * Informal level of marketing that happens within the community itself
 * Formal marketing will be the responsibility of each individual AEA
 * This would be provided by AEA PD Online, but it would be able to be branded by each individual AEA
 * The AEA PD Online team will be attending the Distance & Learning Conference next week
 * They will discuss responsibilities among the team at that time.

|| September 6th meeting will be full day, face-to-face in the Board Rm at 6445 Corporate Dr. beginning at 9:00am Deb VerSteeg and Evan will put together a document describing Communities of Practice and PLC comparison Evan will check on David VanHorn's group to see what needs to be finished and where it overlaps
 * Current Budget**
 * **Closing** || **What needs to be communicated? **
 * Future agenda items? ** || Evan || 5 ||
 * Agenda items: ||
 * Evan will have out the items for review prior to that meeting.