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    A Teacher’s Experience with Peer-to-Peer Supports: Building Bridges 2022

    Preschoolers are capable of doing BIG things when given the opportunity. One preschool teacher, Erin Sheets shares how peer mediated strategies have been a… Read More

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    Iowa’s Area Education Agencies Awarded Grant Funding for Computer Science

    Iowa’s Area Education Agencies have been awarded nearly one million dollars in grant funding to provide statewide K-12 computer science professional development for… Read More

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    Building Bridges: AAC in General Education Incorporating Peer Modeling

    Great learning opportunities occur everyday in our classrooms, but something else is happening within those four walls. Children are developing friendships and a… Read More

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    Broader Thinking About Barriers and ‘Building Bridges’ for Student Success

    Barriers. Every human being has them. We encounter different barriers at different times in life (sometimes in different situations within one day) that vary and… Read More

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    Building Bridges – From Yesterday to Today

    The "Building Bridges” Accessible and Assistive Technology Conference was founded by an AAC & Assistive Technology Consultant at Grant Wood AEA, Julie Freed (now retired). Read More

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    Last Chance to Register: Young Writers’ Conference 2022

    Join us for the 2022 Young Writers' Conference! Space is still available to accommodate seven more groups. Registration materials and more information about the event can be… Read More

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    Reciprocal Teaching, it’s Not Just for Literacy Teachers!

    Chances are if you have heard of reciprocal teaching you have thought of it in the context of an English Language Arts class. Read More

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    How to Use a Document Camera or iPad in Zoom & Meet

    In a world that is still not done with virtual learning or quarantined classrooms, the ability to teach online is still and important skill for… Read More

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    Concept Mapping: The Map that Leads to Effective Instruction

    When thinking of concept mapping, graphic organizers often come to mind. But concept mapping is more than that. The graphic organizer is the tool for… Read More

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    Riddle Me This? Incorporating Questioning into Instructional Technology

    Questioning as an instructional factor weighs in at a .48 effect size, demonstrating the capacity to have a significant impact on student growth. Teachers ask… Read More