New DE-Approved AEA Professional Development

The following PD opportunities have been approved as of January 31, 2026 by the Iowa Department of Education. To see the full list of DE-Approved AEA PD offerings, see this document.

Narrow & Close Achievement Gaps for Students with Disabilities

  • Access for All Package: uPar • Read&Write
  • Peer to Peer: Building Social Connections
  • Special Education Paraeducator Professional Learning

Narrow & Close Achievement Gaps for Students Who Are English Learners

  • Creating a Language Rich Environment for English Learners

Improve & Transform Low-Performing Schools Through Continuous Improvement Leadership

  • Team Initiated Problem-Solving (TIPS)
  • The Formative Assessment Instructional Process (FAIP)

Develop a Strong Teacher Pipeline

  • Intentional Teacher for Early Childhood Educators

Provide Structured Literacy Instruction Aligned with the Science of Reading

  • Elementary Writing
  • Secondary Science of Reading: Advancing Literacy
  • Secondary Writing

Support Evidence-based Instructional Practices for Math

  • 5 Practices for Orchestrating Productive Mathematics Discussions
  • Building Fact Fluency by Graham Fletcher
  • Developing Numerical Fluency from the Ground Up
  • Number Talks

Strengthen College & Career Pathways

  • Building and Sustaining High Quality K-12 Computer Science
  • The Role of Teacher Librarians in Leading Effective School Library Programs
  • Teaching & Leading with Artificial Intelligence: Building Instructional Capacity & Workforce Readiness

Strengthen Systems for Behavioral & Mental Health Support

  • ACES
  • Behavior Basics: Understanding Function of Behavior & Application within MTSS
  • Educator Well-Being
  • Systematic Approach to Suicide Prevention
  • The Practicing Educator