Learning Supports

Some students display a wide range of learning, behavioral, physical, and social-emotional problems that interfere with their ability to participate fully and effectively in school environments and benefit from the instruction teachers provide.

Learning Supports are the wide range of strategies, programs, services, and practices that can enhance student learning. Learning supports:

promote core learning and healthy development for all students,
are proactive to prevent problems for students at-risk and serve as early interventions and supplemental support for students that have barriers to learning,
address the complex, intensive needs of some students.

In Prairie Lakes AEA, the vision for learning supports is to establish and sustain a comprehensive system of supports in which schools, families and communities collaborate to remove barriers and promote success for all learners.

Four results, identified by the Iowa Department of Education, are utilized to more clearly communicate this vision:
• to be successful in school
• to be healthy and socially competent
• to be prepared for productive adulthood; and
• to be in safe, supportive schools, families and communities.

To assist schools in obtaining these results, PLAEA staff provide training for local schools. The Prairie Lakes AEA Learning Supports Team provides the resources in the tab below.