Supporting Families through Changing Educational Environments
Dr. Peggy Schooling, Penn State professor of Practice in Educational Leadership and executive director of the Pennsylvania School Study Council will present a free Zoom webinar to help prepare educators and administrators for supporting families with changing educational environments throughout the school year.
This non-credit course is part two of a three-course series offered for Pennsylvania Act 48 continuing education units by WPSU Penn State. One CEU is available for each course.
Act 48 credits available.
Speakers
Peggy Schooling
Dr. Schooling has worked as a teacher, speech pathologist, reading specialist, elementary principal, central office administrator, executive director, and consultant in the private, public, and for-profit sectors of education for over 40 years. Much of her career has involved working in and with small and large urban school districts. Over the course of her career, Dr. Schooling has had the privilege of partnering with teachers, school and district administrators, and several state education agencies across the United States and abroad in the areas educational leadership, teacher professional learning systems, system wide change, and literacy.
Rebecca Heiser
Rebecca is a distance education researcher and the lead instructional designer for the Lifelong Learning and Adult Education Program with The Pennsylvania State University at World Campus. She is pursuing a doctorate in distance education from Athabasca University, with research interests at the intersection of globalization, equity, and learning analytics in distance education. Rebecca also serves on a research cohort with the Oregon State University Campus Research Unit to study Perceptions of Learning Data in Higher Education and acts as an Open Education Resources (OER) research fellow with Bingham Young University sponsored by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Prior to her employment with Penn State, Rebecca developed online and blended learning solutions for K12 leaders and educators with the Southern Regional Education Board to serve 36 states across the nation. Since COVID-19, Rebecca has partnered directly with state and district leaders to brainstorm solutions for equitable remote learning and instruction. In addition, she is an established technical writer, learning design consultant and eLearning developer for corporate software companies.
William Diehl
Dr. Diehl also serves as associate editor for The American Journal of Distance Education and is an expert reviewer for other academic journals. He is the director of The American Center for the Study of Distance Education and the founder of the International Museum of Distance Education and Technology.
Dr. Diehl is author and co-author of numerous articles in academic journals and proceedings at academic conferences. A consultant in the corporate, higher education, and government sectors, his professional experience also includes work as K-12 teacher, technologist, web designer and developer, instructional designer, and multimedia consultant.
