MISIC Quarterly Meeting #1 - 2025-2026
2025-09-09 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Chicago)
Please join us on Zoom for the first MISIC Quarterly Meeting for 2025-26.

Join MISIC for our first quarterly meeting for 2025-2026 to hear about all of the new tools and resources that we have available for you. We will be joined by Wendy Parker and some of her team members from Rapacious Learning to focus on Special Education and how we can help support your district.
The meeting will be broadcast via Zoom on Tuesday, September 9 from 9:00-11:00am. Register now and make plans to join us. The meeting will also be recorded and posted.
Click here to register for the meeting.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing the link to join the meeting.

Math Workshop 2025
2025-09-23 09:00 - 15:00 | City Church, 2400 Oakwood Road, Ames, IA, 50010, United States
MISIC is excited to announce that we are hosting a workshop for math educators on Tuesday, September 23, 2025. We will be joined by April Pforts & Christi Donald from the Iowa Department of Education. Mark your calendars and register now!

ISASP Workshop - Fall 2025
2025-09-25 09:00 - 15:00 | City Church, 2400 Oakwood Road, Ames, IA, 50010, United States
MISIC is excited to announce that we are hosting an ISASP workshop on Thursday, September 25, 2025. We will once again be joined by Catherine Welch, Stephen Dunbar and others from Iowa Testing Programs to help you dig into your Spring 2025 data. Register now.

Special Education Workshop
2025-11-04 09:00 - 15:00 | City Church, 2400 Oakwood Road, Ames, IA, 50010, United States
MISIC is excited to announce that we are hosting Navigating the Changing Face of Special Education in Iowa on Tuesday, November 4, 2025. This interactive workshop will be presented by Wendy Parker from Rapacious Learning. Register now.
Join us for a dynamic professional learning day designed to support school districts in responding to the significant shifts in Iowa’s special education service delivery system.
This interactive session will equip district and school leaders with the knowledge, tools, and collaborative strategies needed to reimagine and redesign special education services.
Participants will:

explore state-level changes
examine implications for local practices
engage in hands-on planning to align systems, staffing, and supports with the evolving changes you are facing.

I've LETR'D: Now What? - Putting Text at the Heart of Planning for Instruction
2025-11-05 09:00 - 15:00 | City Church, 2400 Oakwood Road, Ames, IA, 50010, United States
MISIC is excited to partner with Really Great Reading to offer this dynamic workshop for K-5 educators featuring:

Word Wizardry: Dual Coding & Semantic Reasoning in Vocabulary Instruction – Julie Sealine, Really Great Reading
Creating the Conditions for Comprehension: Practical Tools for Vocabulary, Language, and Text-Driven Instruction – Cathy Stakey, MISIC Team

Bring your curriculum materials or a piece of text you use during whole group reading instruction to use in the workshop.

Click here to register now.

MISIC Quarterly Meeting #2 - 2025-2026
2025-12-16 09:00 - 11:00
Please join us on Zoom for the second MISIC Quarterly Meeting for 2025-26.

Join MISIC for our second quarterly meeting for 2025-2026 to hear about all of the new tools and resources that we have available for you. We will be joined by Emma Harding from Tanager Place and Jon Hueser will share about what he is doing to support Special Education in his districts.
The meeting will be broadcast via Zoom on Tuesday, December 16 from 9:00-11:00am. Register now and make plans to join us. The meeting will also be recorded and posted.
Click here to register for the meeting.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing the link to join the meeting.
