AEA PREP
Postsecondary Readiness and Equity Partnership
Iowa students who are college and career ready have acquired the necessary knowledge, skills, and strategies to be successful in post-secondary opportunities as demonstrated through multiple sources of evidence, including those generated by students.
AEA PREP YouTube Playlist
AEA PREP offers overview videos on a variety of topics relating to the services they provide. Videos range from four-and-a-half to just under eight minutes in length and cover topics including the Iowa definition of College and Career Readiness (referenced below), the PREP Trendlines (longitudinal data beyond K-12), the Iowa Postsecondary Readiness Reports, how to navigate the content in the PREP Dashboards, how to understand and interpret the data in the PREP Dashboards, and an overview of the Iowa School Performance Profiles Postsecondary Readiness Index (PRI).
CLICK HERE to view the full playlist. CLICK HERE to view the AEA PREP website.
AEA_Iowa_PREP_Brochure.pdfDefinition of College and Career Readiness Flyer (1).pdfThe Iowa Area Education Agency (AEA) Compact outlines a partnership with LEAs and the Department of Education in which we pledge “every child who graduates from an Iowa pre-K-12 public or non-public accredited school will be prepared for success in postsecondary studies, a career, and citizenship.” Iowa’s definition of college- and career-ready describes what this preparedness looks like for students (see figure and click on the hyperlinked PDF to the left).
The knowledge, skills, and dispositions in the four "buckets" of the definition are transferable among PK-16 learning experiences, and are also a set of competencies that serve lifelong learners who desire to design their own path to a successful career, meaningful civic participation, and a rich personal life.