Revitalizing Your School Culture | Act 45 Program

Principal Study Council 2023-2024 This four-part professional learning series supports instructional leaders as they design learning environments that represent the uniqueness of both staff and students in their schools. Designed as a professional learning community experience, participants will engage in ways to elevate their culture, build trust to strengthen relationships within their school communities and manage difficult situations with dignity and respect. Leaders participating will be engaged in practical strategies and frameworks to create school spaces where all feel valued, appreciated and accepted.

All participants receive 2 books: "Recalibrate The Culture: Our Why...Our Work...Our Values" by Jimmy Casas and "Handle with Care: Managing Difficult Situations in Schools with Dignity and Respect" by Jimmy Casas and Joy Kelly

Key Details

• October 17, 2023, December 14, 2023, February 7, 2024, and April 11, 2024
• 40 Act 45 PIL Hours pending approval
• Educelebrity Speakers - Jimmy Casas and Joy Kelly, authors and educational leadership consultants
• Principal Networking 

The Everyday Behaviors of Admired Leadership

Facilitated by: John Sanville, Superintendent, Unionville Chadds Ford SD

The Admired Leadership program teaches senior leaders how to manage through challenges, care for critical relationships, guide teams and students, and motivate and inspire by exploring behavioral choices that work. The program is designed to create continuous self-reflection, learning, application of Admired Leader® behaviors, and dialogue among participants. Participants will have access to the Admired Leadership Digital platform, designed for self-directed learning to engage the behaviors in the monthly modules prior to execution and discussion.

• Open to a statewide audience! 

A Deeper Look into Grading and Reporting for Mastery Learning

This program is fully online, self-paced with limited facilitation - 40 Act 45 PIL Hours
This course will guide school leaders through resources that they can explore at their own pace during their implementation of mastery learning, grading and assessment practices at their school/district.

Cultivating Critical Wellness and Combating Toxic Stress to Transform Schools

This program is fully online, self-paced with limited facilitation - 40 Act 45 PIL Hours
This course is designed to provide the school leader with the understanding that a school culture of equity is one where educators create a classroom, school, and system where excellence is achieved for every student, no matter who that student is or where that student comes from.

Curriculum Best Practices: Quality Curriculum Alignment and Assessment

This program is fully online, self-paced with limited facilitation - 40 Act 45 PIL Hours
This course examines curriculum practices and protocols that best reflect what students know and are able to do in order to increase academic achievement while also finding ways to effectively articulate student outcomes to all stakeholders.

The Danielson Framework for Teaching, The Calibration of Observation Skills

This program is fully online, self-paced with limited facilitation - 30 Act 45 PIL Hours
This course is designed to increase leadership ability to accurately and effectively observe and evaluate teachers using the Danielson Framework for Teaching, which is required per Act 82 of 2012.