Posted on Thursday, February 5, 2004
Two professional development seminars, Early Childhood Initiatives and School Law Update are offered to educators at Westminster College. 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 Westminster College 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.
