Pennsylvania State Education Association

Week of 10-25-2021

Inside this issue

• Introducing PEARL, PSEA’s best professional learning system yet
• Voice preview: Football coach overcomes odds and inspires players
• The election is this Tuesday!
• PEARL & the Center for Professional Learning
• Member Benefits spotlight: GE Appliances Store

We’re excited to announce the debut of PEARL (Professional Education and Resources for Learning), PSEA’s new hub for our online learning programs.

On PEARL, members can find videos, documents, and presentations packaged into clear, easy-to-follow learning progressions and courses in an array of new formats. We have more than 50 courses available on PEARL right now, and we’ll be adding more all the time.

Whatever your membership category, you’re sure to find something to like on PEARL. Check it out, and let us know what you think.

You can keep reading this story at the link below or in your copy of the November 2021 Voice magazine.

When LaDontay Bell came on as the head football coach for the Chester High Clippers in 2016, he knew he had his work cut out for him in a troubled school district. But he never could have imagined that over the next few years he would see not one, not two, but three of his young players killed by street violence.

Bell, who also teaches 9th grade physical education, told his story over a phone call at 8 p.m. on a Thursday, after he had just dropped off the last of his players at home. It’s a commitment he took on after the death of 16-year-old Zion Abdullah, who was shot and killed while walking to school in June 2017.

“Myself and Dr. Boeing, who was the superintendent at the time, were at Zion’s funeral, and he said to me, ‘What is it that you need?’ And I responded, ‘I need a van. I need transportation. I don’t want any of my players walking again,’” Bell said.

The Pennsylvania General Election is this Tuesday, Nov. 2. If you haven’t voted by mail yet, polls will be open on Election Day from 7 a.m.-8 p.m.

You can see all PACE-recommended candidates on your ballot at schoolhouseballot.com. It’s critical we elect friends of public education in this and every election. Happy voting!

Find out all the fun and easy ways you can earn Act 48/Chapter 14 credits, including through our newly launched PEARL platform!

PEARL

Here are just a few of the dozens of asynchronous courses you can enjoy right now on PEARL:

• Schoology in Practice: Essentials for Beginners
• Time Management and Organization for Online Learning
  
• Social and Emotional Learning is for Us, Too!
  
• Building and Maintaining a Humanized Classroom
  
• Assessment and Treatment of Anxiety Across the Developmental Spectrum
• Seesaw Basics & Advanced

Webinars

• Multi-Sensory Learning Using Arts Integration
  • Nov. 3, 5-6:30 p.m.
• Continuous Improvement: Using the PDE Danielson Frameworks to Up Your Teaching Game!
  • Nov. 9, 4-5 p.m.
• Can You Hear Us Now? Using Podcasts to Educate and Entertain
  • Nov. 10, 5-6:30 p.m.
• Fostering a “Growth Mindset” in the Classroom Today: Shifting the Focus to Growth and Development with Assessment & Grades Rather than Measurement
  • Nov. 11, 5-6:30 p.m.

Member Well-being

• Mindful Mondays
  • Nov. 1, 5-5:45 p.m.
• Mindful Mondays
  • Nov. 15, 5-5:45 p.m.
• Mindful Mondays
  
  • Dec. 6, 5-5:45 p.m.

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• Special savings on Profile, Cafe, GE, Monogram, Haier, and Hotpoint major appliances
• Additional promotional and rebate offers
• Shop their new suite of small appliances
• Convenient in-home delivery, installation, and haul-away services available

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