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• Awards 25 PIL hours on PERMS to School and System Leaders (SSL).  

• Composed of four, 3 hour, online sessions meeting once a week over four consecutive weeks from 4:30 to 7:30.
  

•  Approved by PDE in August, 2022
  

Registration

To register you may pay $325 per participant at the Upcoming Classes page (in the Top Menu bar) via PayPal; OR 

You may mail a School District , Career Technology Center or Charter School check, along with a cover letter with your contact info, to:

​Tom Bailey,  PO Box 83, Verona, PA 15147

PIL Course Description 

This Course equips participants with knowledge of PDE's components of Professional Ethics:

• Model Code of Ethics for Educators;
•  PA Code of Professional Practice & Conduct for  Educators;
• differences between a code of ethics and code of conduct;
• Educator Discipline Act; and
• PA Professional Standards & Practices Commission's history, membership and role in adjudicating Educator Misconduct Complaints filed by Office of Chief Counsel.

Learning Objectives

Specifically SSLs will learn to:

• Participate in and facilitate peer discussion of PDE's components of Professional Ethics and  case studies based upon common ethical dilemmas.
• form a small (3-5 persons) Ethics Professional Learning Community (PLC) with educators of their choice from his/her Local Education Agency (LEA).    
• take Pre and Post Assessments to show improvement that are submitted to PDE as part of  Culminating Project.  
• administer Pre and Post Assessments from PLC members
• work with at least two educators in your PLC  to develop and present one  ethics lesson to one of their classes based upon your LEA's student code of conduct.  Pre and Post Assessments are taken to gather student achievement data. 

SSL Reviews and Reflective Writings​

To read reviews from SSLs who have taken our course, click on PIL Reviews in the top menu bar.  

 If you would like to read some of their Reflective Writings, I've included them in the PIL Reviews.  PDE requires SSLs to write each class session.  Their topics are tied to the SSL Corollary Standards and what we covered in that session.  Please read the topic and then the SSL responses.  We feel the responses have been excellent!

To find starting dates and times of my next PIL class, the cost, the specific content of each session and registration info, click on Upcoming Classes, also in the top menu bar.