A Storytelling Course for School Leaders | Act 45 Program

This highly interactive program empowers school leaders to develop storytelling skills essential for showcasing their school's impact. Participants will learn to shape, craft, and present compelling stories, using research-based techniques. The course highlights storytelling as a vital tool for building community relationships, highlighting student achievements, and addressing data insights. Each leader will create and have an opportunity to publicly present a Story of Impact to celebrate their school's journey and achievements.

Restorative Justice Conferencing | Act 45 Program

Incidents of conflict, wrongdoing, and harm occur everywhere, every day in schools, workplaces, college campuses, neighborhoods, and families. The restorative justice conference provides a way to engage with those who cause and experience harm, along with the related community.

Restorative Justice Conferencing covers the fundamentals of facilitating a formal conference in response to an incident of wrongdoing or harm. You will then be able to utilize those skills to create deeper interpersonal understanding and repair relationships among those involved or affected by such an incident.

The Everyday Behaviors of Admired Leadership | Act 45 Program

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.

Building a Community of Leaders | Act 45 Program

Principal Study Council 2024-2025 This four-part professional learning series supports instructional leaders and their school-based leadership teams 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 and community by encouraging everyone to see themselves as a leader. School-based teams will learn practical strategies and frameworks to create school spaces where they lead from a core set of values to address the biggest challenges facing our schools.

Asynchronous Act 45:

•  Enroll by December 2, 2024
•  Enroll by April 21, 2025

Principles of Universal Design for Learning for School Leaders 

This program is fully online, self-paced with limited facilitation - 40 Act 45 PIL Hours
Learn to implement systems that reduce learning barriers, creating an environment where all students can thrive! This course equips principals and school leaders with the knowledge to implement the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework. You'll learn to create systems that reduce barriers to student learning and success by exploring UDL principles of engagement, representation, action, and expression.

MTSS Framework for Principals and School Leaders

This program is fully online, self-paced with limited facilitation - 40 Act 45 PIL Hours
Are you ready to take your leadership to the next level and drive meaningful change in your school community? Introducing the MTSS Framework for Principals and School Leaders program, designed specifically to equip you with the knowledge and tools needed to implement the Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) framework effectively.

A Deeper Look into Grading and Reporting for Mastery Learning

This course 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.

Curriculum Best Practices: Quality Curriculum Alignment and Assessment

This course 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 course 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.

Cultivating Critical Wellness and Combatting Toxic Stress to Transform Schools

This coures 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.