• Ideas for implementing events
  Includes events throughout the year, ideas to implement local events, transcripts of lectures; research, public concerns, war against terrorism, great multicultural programs, teaching tolerance and the general community.
  (by Esther MGP Viera)
  
• Multicultural Pavilion
  "Multicultural Pavilion" operated by Paul C. Gorski
  "Through the multicultural Pavilion I strive to provide recourse for educators, students and activists to explore and discuss multicultural education, facilitate opportunities for educator to work toward self awareness and development." This site contains research rooms, song lists, a listserv you can join and free download facts and resources and lesson helps. (by Oscar J. Ortiz)
  
• Creating safe and caring environments for children
  Dedicated to creating safe, caring and respectful environments for children. Peter Yarrow from Peter, Paul and Mary trio is the name catcher for this program. The resource list to operate this character building unit is pretty impressive. An easy site to work with, contains free downloads for the program. You can find a great write up on this program in the 2005 issue of the NEA TODAY.
  (by Oscar J. Ortiz)
  
• Do's and don'ts in teaching about Native American history
  This link will connect you to a do's and don'ts page. If you teach anything about Native Americans and/or their history, this Web site is for you. It will give advice for teaching preschool students to high schoolers. This is a Web site for not just Native American History Month (November), but for all year long. (by Shauna Firmature-Cihacek)

The ISEA Multicultural Committee works to increase minority membership and participation at all levels of the Association and to improve educational and cultural opportunities for multiethnic educators and students.

• ISEA Multicultural Committee
• NEA guide to multicultural education
• Achievement Gaps 
• Becoming a Culturally Competent Educator
• Cultural Corner (Events and Links)
• Iowa Safe Schools Task Force
• NEA Guide for Human and Civil Rights Activists
• ISEA Paul Mann Memorial Human Relations Award: Nominate someone today!
• NEA Human and Civil Rights Awards

Upcoming Meetings--October 31, 2009

Meeting minutes for June 4, 2009
Meeting minutes for February 7, 2009
Meeting minutes for November 1, 2008

Des Moines Education Association
Toni Austin -- Toni has been teaching in Des Moines for 19 years. Presently she is serving her second term as the Minority Representative on the Des Moines Education Association Executive Board.

Executive Board Member
Flora Lee

Staff Liaison
Christy Hickman

Area Education Agency members are a vital link in maintaining Iowa's top-quality public education system. Whether you're a teacher, a consultant, a psychologist, a social worker, a speech and language clinician -- or whether you perform one of the countless other sevices provided by Iowa's Area Education Agencies -- you give Iowa's students and teachers that extra help and support that makes a real difference.

The ISEA has a long history of advocating for the AEAs and their employees. In fact, the Association was instrumental in securing passage of legislation that created the agencies back in the early 1970s

• Area Education Agency Committee
• Iowa AEA Web site