Your students’ education depends upon making tough decisions in hard times. Are you prepared to make these decisions and also to defend them to a wide range of stakeholders in both the school community and the larger community?
Educational mandates remain high yet finances are uncertain. Educators want to respect students and their rights but must keep schools safe. Individual rights are important but what about the rights of the group?
How can we make morally sound decisions?
The three courses that comprise the School Leadership Series bring your system leaders together to learn, as a group, about how best to meet these challenges.
| (Spring 2016: February 18, March 3, March 17, March 31, April 14, 2016) | | | The New Fiscal Reality |
| (Summer 2016: May 25, June 1, June 8, June 15, 2016) | | | Law and Education [ Cancelled ]
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Required Text ISBN-10: 0133564460 |
| (Fall 2016: Dates to be announced) | | | Ethics in Educational Leadership |
In these courses, you can:
- earn 90 Act 45 hours
- engage in discussions with, and learn from, the experiences of other system leaders
- acquire practical knowledge through job-embedded school district finance-related assignments
aimed at improving student performance - pinpoint inefficiencies, redundancies, waste, and barriers in your district
- review archived sessions from the convenience of your computer
More information can be viewed at Penn State’s website:
- Coming Soon
To register for these courses:
- New Fiscal Reality [ Session ended ]
- Law and Education [ Cancelled ]
1. Course Information
| New Fiscal Reality |
| Instructor: Dr. William Hartman |
| In this five-session course, you will gain insights from discussions with other school district leaders about school finance, as well as the assigned readings and activities. You will learn through job- embedded, finance-related assignments aimed at improving student performance, which allows for immediate application. You will be able to view sessions broadcast live from University Park to various intermediate units statewide and earn 90 Act 45 hours. |
| Course dates: February 18, March 3, March 17, March 31, April 14, 2016 |
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| Law and Education [ Cancelled ] |
| Instructor: Dr. Maria Lewis, Ph.D., J.D. |
| This four-session course attempts to create an environment that encourages teacher and student success by: improving leaders’ understanding of educational law; enabling leaders to avoid costly litigation; enabling schools to more effectively protect the legal rights of all students; and enabling school leaders create an atmosphere in which faculty and staff can make legally sound decisions that are also educationally sound. Topics include religion, discrimination, student rights, technology, special education and employee rights. |
| Course dates: May 25, June 1, June 8, June 15, 2016 |
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| Ethics in Educational Leadership |
| Instructor: To be announced |
| This course will focus on ethical issues facing educators in the upcoming years using a model consisting of four frameworks (justice, care, critique/power, the profession) that can be applied to resolving various types of ethical dilemmas. Each of the five sessions will explore reality-based situations that call for educators to make a difficult choice. Through practice, reflection, inquiry, and discussions with educator’s state-wide, participants will learn how to address tough ethical problems, including those related to: personal lives, professional responsibilities and teacher evaluations, the new teacher performance evaluations, retention of teachers, testing, accountability and educator’s personal lives. |
| Course dates: Fall 2014 – Dates to be announced |
2. Act 45/48/no credit
This course will benefit anyone involved in education from superintendent to building leader to association member to school board director to business office staff. 90 Act 45 hours or 37.5 Act 48 hours are available to those completing the job imbedded assignments.
3. Dates
The course will delivered regionally via interactive video conference on five afternoons.
Each of the sessions will run from 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. :: 5 session courses (New Fiscal Reality).
Each of the sessions will run from 4:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. :: 4 session courses (Law and Education).
- New Fiscal Reality – Spring 2016: February 18, March 3, March 17, March 31, April 14, 2016
- Law and Education – Summer 2016: May 25, June 1, June 8, June 15, 2016 [ Cancelled ]
- Ethics in Educational Leadership – Fall 2016: To be announced
4. Pricing
Cost for participants from school districts that are PAIUnet members:
| $550 | … | per individual course registration |
Cost for participants from school districts that are not members of PAIUnet:
| $950.00 | … | per individual course registration |
| $715.00 | … | per participant as part of a group of 3 to 5 from the same district or IU |
| $615.00 | … | per participant as part of a group of 6 or more from the same district or IU |
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5. Host Site participation
Since the professors can only actively engage with approx. 15 sites, we are hoping to maximize the number of participants by strategically locating the host sites. Since a number of the activities assume that there are multiple participants at each site, our goal is to bring together at least 10 participants at each location. Please help us get the word out!
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