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The most recent Iowa Learning Community was held at the Foundation in Ames, on Oct 23 in the Lempke room.

The Feb 22nd 2008 Iowa Learning Community was held at the Extension/4H building in Ames.

The 2009 Iowa Statewide Meeting was held on May 4th and 5th at the Honey Creek Resort on Lake Rathbun. A report on the meeting was featured in The Heartland Connection. Here's a video report and the article.

Here is View or download the team development powerpoint from the November 20th, 2008 Iowa Learning Community

The September 25 Iowa Learning Community meeting was held at the Foundation in Ames. Here's the portion of Delbert Elliott's talk on dissemination and implementation that was presented. Here's the powerpoint. [View] [Download]

View or download Jane Todey's powerpoint on applying what we've learned.

The April 22nd Iowa Statewide Meeting was held at the Memorial Union Campanile Room on the ISU campus. Here's Jane Todey's powerpoint on building stonger school/community relationships. [view] [download] Here's Scott Claire's PROSPER Outcomes powerpoint. [view] [download] Here are some pictures of the event.

Here's Jane Todey's presentation on the Comprehensive School Improvement Plan (.pdf) from the Iowa Learning Community meeting held on January 24th, 2008 at the ISU Foundation in Ames.

Here are pictures from the April 20th, 2007 Iowa Statewide Meeting in Ames.

Here are notes from the December 11th 2006 Iowa Learning Community meeting, and here are some photos.

Here are notes from Iowa's Learning Community Meeting of Friday, the 29th of September, 2006.

Here is the PowerPoint from Iowa's June 9th, 2006 Learning Community meeting. (allow time to download)

Here are photos, and the Results PowerPoint from Iowa's April 26 Statewide Meeting.

At Iowa's December 19th, 2005 Learning Community meeting, information on PROSPER results was presented.

Here's the "making data useful" powerpoint from Pennsylvania's December 5, 2005 Learning Community meeting.

The fifth Iowa Learning Community meeting was held on Monday September 19th, 2005. Here is the powerpoint from Marie Roda's talk on PROSPER communication, See What's New for photos, video, and a report.

Iowa's fourth Learning Community meeting was held on June 20, 2005 at The Des Moines Higher Education Collaborative John & Mary Pappajohn Education Center. See What's New for photos, video, and a report.

Iowa's 2005 Statewide Meeting was held on May 12 and 13 at the Arrowwood resort in Okoboji. Here are photos and video from the meeting. Here are notes from a session on team roles/responsibilities.

Iowa's third Learning Community meeting was Wednesday, February 23, 2005. Here are some pictures from the meeting, and video!
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Here are notes from Pennsylvania's third Learning Community meeting.

The second Pennsylvania PROSPER Learning Community Meeting was held on November 18, 2004.  Here are notes from the meeting.

Here is a team-building activity from the first meeting, and the outcome - a team resume!

Here are pictures from Pennsylvania's 2004 Statewide Meeting!

Iowa's second Learning Community was held on December 6th, 2004 at ISU's Memorial Union Building.   Here are some pictures, and take a look at the  notes from the meeting.  A lot of ground was covered!


Report and Photos from October 2004's Iowa Learning Community!

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