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Welcome to the William Penn School District's Professional Development Portal!
building-led Professional development
building-led Professional development
Audience: All William Penn Staff
Description: Professional Development sessions will follow the respective start times of the elementary, middle and high schools. Sessions will be school-led to support the needs of each individual building and job function. School leadership will provide their staff with a detailed agenda for the day.
ENGLISH/LANGUAGE ARTS PILOT SESSIONS
ELA Pilot Training Workshops
ELA Pilot Training Workshops
Audience: Participating ELA Pilot Teachers
Description: This professional development will provide piloting teachers with the necessary support and resources to successfully navigate and implement the new curriculum.
Savvas MyView
Audience: ELA Pilot Teachers from Ardmore Avenue Elementary School
Presenter: Alex Huggins, Savvas Learning
Time: 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Location: Ardmore Avenue Elementary School
HMH, Into Reading
Audience: ELA Pilot Teachers from East Lansdowne Elementary
Presenter: HMH
Time: 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Location: East Lansdowne Elementary
McGraw-Hill, StudySync
Audience: ELA Pilot Teachers from Park Lane and W.B. Evans Elementary Schools (6th-Grade)
Presenter: McGraw-Hill
Time: 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Location: Virtual, Zoom (link will be updated)
STUDENT SERVICES AND SPECIAL EDUCATION
Safety Care - Verbal De-escalation
Safety Care - Verbal De-escalation
Audience: Elementary Special Education Teachers (K-6)
Description: Participants will engage in and complete the verbal de-escalation module for Safety Care certification.
Presenter: WPSD Safety Care Trainers
Time: 8:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Location: TBD
Follow-up IEP Training/Workshop (DCIU)
Follow-up IEP Training/Workshop (DCIU)
Audience: Elementary Special Education Teachers (K-6)
Description: This session is designed to strengthen teachers’ confidence and skills in developing high-quality IEPs that meet both student needs and legal standards. Participants will focus on crafting clear, measurable, and legally defensible IEP goals, as well as writing precise and meaningful Present Levels of Academic Achievement and Functional Performance. The training will emphasize practical strategies teachers can immediately apply to ensure IEPs are both effective for instruction and compliant with requirements.
Presenter: DCIU
Time: 12:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Location: Penn Wood Middle School, Cafeteria
Follow-up IEP Training/Workshop (DCIU)
Follow-up IEP Training/Workshop (DCIU)
Audience: Secondary Special Education Teachers (7-12)
Description: This session is designed to strengthen teachers’ confidence and skills in developing high-quality IEPs that meet both student needs and legal standards. Participants will focus on crafting clear, measurable, and legally defensible IEP goals, as well as writing precise and meaningful Present Levels of Academic Achievement and Functional Performance. The training will emphasize practical strategies teachers can immediately apply to ensure IEPs are both effective for instruction and compliant with requirements.
Presenter: DCIU
Time: 7:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Location: Penn Wood Middle School, Cafeteria
Preparing for Cyclical Monitoring: A Focus on Secondary Transition Planning and IEP Development
Preparing for Cyclical Monitoring: A Focus on Secondary Transition Planning and IEP Development
Audience: 7-12 Special Education Teachers
Description: Special Education Teachers in grades 7-12 will dedicate 3 hours towards this asynchronous Schoology course that is a state requirement for the District's Indicator 13 review process. Staff required to complete this course have received an email directly from supervisors already with detailed sign-up instructions.
Presenter: PaTTAN via Schoology
Time: 11:30 AM - 2:30 PM
Location: Virtual via Schoology
SAP Alignment and Support Training
SAP Alignment and Support Training
Audience: School Counselors and Social Workers
Description: SAP reflection session focused on identifying successes, challenges, and areas for additional support. This session will help align practices across schools and strengthen our student support processes.
Presenter: Holcomb
Time: 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: Green Ave - GR1
It's Not About the Device: Creating Engaging Activities for Students Who Use AAC
It's Not About the Device: Creating Engaging Activities for Students Who Use AAC
Audience: Occupational Therapists, Speech Language Pathologists, Physical Therapists
Description: Securing funding for an AAC device is just the first step of many in teaching authentic communication skills to students with AAC needs. Collaborative teamwork to develop and/or share engaging activities that "hook" students is critical in fostering communication skills for the user. Participants will develop skills in identifying and creating age respectful activities for students from early intervention through age 21. Attendees will share ideas and strategies they learned to increase student engagement and participation.
Presenter: DCIU TaC Staff
Time: 12:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Location: Off-Site - TBD
Registration: Click Here to Register
School Psychologist Job-Alike Group
School Psychologist Job-Alike Group
Audience: School Psychologists
Description: The forum for school psychologists allows for networking opportunities, review of best practices, updates from the Department of Education and local and national associations and troubleshoot questions and/or problems that arise in practice.
Presenter: DCIU
Time: 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM
Location: DCIU Aston Campus
Registration: Click Here to Register
Techniques and Strategies for Working Collaboratively with Your Teacher
Techniques and Strategies for Working Collaboratively with Your Teacher
Audience: Paraprofessionals (Instructional Assistant)
Description: In this workshop, paraprofessionals will learn practical techniques and strategies to build strong, collaborative partnerships with their classroom teachers. Participants will gain tools to improve communication, clarify roles and responsibilities, and support effectively as a team to enhance student success
Presenter: DCIU
Time: 8:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Location: Off-Site - TBD
Registration: Click Here to Register
Proactive, Preventive, and Restorative Responses to Behavior
Proactive, Preventive, and Restorative Responses to Behavior
Audience: Paraprofessionals (Instructional Assistant)
Description: This training will provide paraprofessionals with proactive, preventive, and restorative strategies to support positive student behavior. Participants will learn how to respond effectively to challenging behaviors, build strong relationships with students, and contribute to a supportive and inclusive classroom environment.
Presenter: DCIU
Time: 12:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Location: Off-Site - TBD
Registration: Click Here to Register
OTHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SESSIONS
Implementing Effective Math Centers
Implementing Effective Math Centers
Audience: Elementary Math Teachers
Description: This session will guide you through the effective design and implementation of standards-aligned math centers to transform your daily mathematics instruction. We will focus on how this structure allows you to reinforce, deepen, or extend the day's objective, provide targeted spiraled review, and build fluency at differentiated learning stations. You will learn practical strategies for managing centers and, most importantly, how to actively monitor and provide feedback. You will leave ready to establish routines that create a student-centered environment for powerful, differentiated learning.
Presenter: Edward Dunn, Supervisor of Mathematics
Time: 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Location: Green Avenue Administration Building, Room GR1
Registration: Click Here to Register (25 Participant Capacity)
Resources: Link to Resource Folder
Spotlight on the Four Domains of Language in English Language Development
Spotlight on the Four Domains of Language in English Language Development
Audience: ELD Teachers
Description: Teachers of English Learners often look through ACCESS score reports and screener scores in order to determine focus for their ELD lessons each year. This year, we will work together to examine the four domains of language that are integral to ELD and find ways to improve the ways that we have students listen, speak, read and write in our ELD lessons. This workshop will help you plan targeted and intentional English Language Development, with lessons that encompass all content areas, support success in school, and focus on a functional approach to language development as we strive to increase language proficiency. Because all teachers teach language to Multilingual Learners, content/classroom teachers are welcome, as well!
Registration fee: $98 Delaware County Districts Staff (Reach out to Octavia Tokley for approval)
Registration required. Register by 10/30/2025. Meals not provided.
Presenter: Shelly Frei, M. Ed., English Learner Lead Teacher, Delaware County Intermediate Unit
Time: 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM
Location: DCIU Location TBD
Pennsylvania Music Educators Association Fall In-Service Event
Pennsylvania Music Educators Association Fall In-Service Event
Audience: Music Teachers
Description: For the first time, District 11 (Bucks and Montgomery Counties) and District 12 (Chester, Delaware, and Philadelphia Counties) will join forces to create an exceptional professional development opportunity for music educators throughout our region. This collaborative approach allows us to pool our resources and expertise and provide your music staff with specialized music learning opportunities and valuable cross-district networking. This professional development day will feature: specialized workshops for various music disciplines, collaborative sessions promoting resource sharing, networking opportunities with peers throughout the region, and application of cutting-edge pedagogical approaches. After registration is complete, PMEA D12 will send you a link to choose your sessions for the day. If you have any questions, email Danielle Cullen at pd@pmead12.org.
Presenter: Pennsylvania Music Educators Association (PMEA)
Time: 8:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Location: Upper Merion High School, 465 Corssfield Road, King of Prussia, PA 19406
Additional Information: Link to the Schedule of Events and Session Descriptions
Navigate 360 Process
Navigate 360 Process
Audience: School Securtiy Officers
Description: Inputting Safety drills in Navigate 360. Will also go over Threat Assessment Training for anyone who missed it.
Presenter: Tracy Pratt and Derrick Johnson
Time: 7:30 AM - 3:30 PM
Location: Penn Wood Middle School
APTA New Chart of Accounts and Purchasing Review
APTA New Chart of Accounts and Purchasing Review
Audience: District-Wide Building Secretaries
Description: This session provides a guide to the updated PA Chart of Accounts (COA), effective for the FY 2025-2026 school year, and a review of essential procurement procedures and the invoicing process. You will learn about the new COA structure, which expands account segments to allow for more detailed tracking of expenditures, including spending by subject (e.g., Music, Art, Science), and how to use the new dimensions like Subject, InstOrg, and Operunit.
Please bring your laptops to this session, as we will be reviewing and demonstrating how to enter a purchase requisition in APTA and covering the electronic invoicing process using OneDrive. Bring any materials you may need to discuss APTA and the Invoicing Process.
Presenter: Joanna Sumner and Rose Holley
Time: 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Location: Green Avenue Administration Building, Boardroom
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