What would you like to see offered for renewal courses?

Heartland is seeking your help. What courses would you like to see offered during the Winter or Spring, please leave your suggestions or feedback in the Post a Comment section below.

A Practical Approach to Educating Students in Poverty

This course will provide educators with concrete tools for working more effectively with students living in poverty. It will provide a foundation for understanding poverty and what to do about it in school buildings and classrooms. Participants can expect a combination of engaging discussions and refection time as well as videotaped clips of Dr. Donna Beegle, a national public speaker and author on the topic of poverty. The registration fee includes an Action Approach Guidebook (this book is a companion to the DVD: "Be the Difference! An Action Approach to Educating Students in Poverty").

Please click here for more information or to register for this course.

Right Brain Drawing

License Renewal and EDEX graduate credit are being offered for this course. Instruction will include Right Brain concepts from Daniel Pink and Betty Edwards and how it affects thinking and problem solving. This course will help participants understand visual learners and how to overcome the issues of drawing inability. Learn Right Brain exercises and get lesson ideas that will enhance problem solving and creativity. A great course for individuals with little or no drawing skills as well as more experienced artists. The class will take you from drawing stick figures to realism with shading. The instructor has taught this class on the college level for many years and found it transformed the ability of many students to create realistic drawing.


Please click here for more information or to register for the June 24 & 25, 2012 course.

Preserve the Taste of Summer (A Food Perservation Course)

Iowa State University Extension is offering a new food preservation program, Preserve the Taste of Summer. It is a comprehensive program comprised of both online lessons (12 hours) and hands-on workshops (4 hours), that discusses food safety practices and provides detailed instruction pertaining to the major food preservation techniques. The course fee is $125: $100 payable to ISU Extension and $25 payable to Heartland AEA (registration fee). This includes 8 online lessons and one 4-hour hands-on workshop. Participants can attend additional hands-on workshops for $40 each, payable to ISU Extension. Participants will register online at www.ucs.iastate.edu/mnet/preservation/home. This link is where participants will make their program selection and payment.

 Registration information in regards to the license renewal credit will be forwarded to participants.