Home Schooling or Competent Private Instruction is private instruction that is provided to a child in Iowa. The Mississippi Bend AEA Home Schooling program offers information and ...
As a busy educator, we know you need an easier way to find, register, and pay for AEA professional learning courses. So Iowa’s AEAs are launching a new, more user-friendly AEA Pro...
With the passage of HF 2612 during the 2024 legislative session, updates to the delivery of Braille transcription and AIM/AEM scanning services and products will be impacted going...
New legislation requires a fee increase for services Welcome to the 2024-25 school year! We are pleased to announce that despite legislative changes caused by HF 2612, all asp...
Beginning Aug. 1, 2024, Iowa’s AEAs will implement a new fee structure for professional learning courses. This new structure is being put in place due to funding changes experienc...
The AEAs are no longer able to provide Pear Deck for districts, but we have negotiated a special discounted rate that is only provided to Iowa schools. Licenses for Pear Deck are...
Science education has traditionally focused on teaching students the core concepts and theories of various scientific disciplines. However, with the adoption of Iowa’s Science Sta...
The Mississippi Bend Area Education Agency’s (MBAEA) Challenging Behavior Team (CBT) was created in 2011 as part of a state-wide collaboration with Iowa’s Area Education Agencies ...
Iowa’s AEAs are collaborating to move to a new registration system for our professional learning courses. We’ve heard your feedback — you need an easier way to find, register and ...
Have you ever shared files from your Google Drive with students’ parents or colleagues? Was it easier to set the share permissions to “Anyone with the link” instead of sharing wit...
MBAEA offers dedicated Secondary Transition Specialists to support special education students, ages 14 and up, in preparation for living, learning, and working opportunit...
Recently, I had the pleasure of being asked to participate in a celebration event at Madison Elementary in Davenport. The event honored students who achieved over 95% attendance d...
With the holiday season approaching and gift-buying ramping up, you might run across fraudulent sites and situations during your search online for the perfect presents. This opens...
Join us in a virtual session to learn about a life-changing accident early in this student's life and his remarkable response: turning adversity into a springboard for creativity ...
If you are a teacher interested in earning your 5-12 CS Endorsement, UNI and Iowa's AEAs have partnered for a program that will provide secondary (5-12) computer science endorseme...
Iowa has been recognized among the best in the nation (8th, to be exact) for its support of public high schools offering computer science courses. A new national report shows tha...
Lincoln is a true star! His smile and personality light up every room! Lincoln has been working very hard this year as a 1st grader and is handling the transition from kindergarte...
The MBAEA Speech-Language Pathology (SLP) department, consisting of 56 SLPs and one communication assistant, has taken on extensive high-level learning this year. As a whole group...
The November 2023 issue of the MBAEA Computer Science and STEM Newsletter is packed with valuable information, resources, and events designed to inspire and inform educators, st...
In the dynamic world of science education, collaboration is the key. As we navigate the ever-evolving landscape of teaching and scientific advancements, the importance of science ...