Posted on Thursday, February 5, 2004
Two professional development seminars, Early Childhood Initiatives and School Law Update are offered to educators at ¾¨Ó㴫ý. Early Childhood Initiatives is offered Wednesday, Feb. 18, from 8 a.m.-3 p.m. at the McKelvey Campus Center Lakeview Room, and School Law Update is offered Thursday, March 11, from 8 a.m.-noon at the McKelvey Campus Center Lakeview Room.
Early Childhood Initiative will explore the critical issues involved in developing, implementing, and sustaining an early childhood program in a school district and community. The presenters are: Dr. Robert Nelkin and Dr. Wendy Ethridge-Smith from the University of Pittsburgh Office of Child Development; Dr. Philip Boggio, retired superintendent of Chartier Valley, Greensburgh Dioceses and DePaul Institute; and Mary Jo Taylor and Patricia Cronin from Mentor School District.
School Law Workshop will focus numerous issues including charter schools, student drug testing, sexual abuse/harassment, disabilities and special education, student searches, pledge of allegiance, and others. The panel includes Dr. Sean Hughes, professor of administrative and policy studies at the University of Pittsburgh; Dr. Lawrence Korchnak, superintended of Hampton Township School District and author of Case Law and Common Sense: A Guide to Pennsylvania School Law; and Dr. Chester Kent Esq., a scholar-practitioner in law and education for the Tri-State Area School Study Council at the University of Pittsburgh and writer for Schoolhouse Legal Primmer.
The workshops are co-sponsored by the ¾¨Ó㴫ý Graduate Program in Educational Leadership and the Tri-State School Study Council.
For more information, contact Dr. Samuel Farmerie, professor of education emeritus and coordinator of the workshops, at (724) 946-7053.
