The PSBA Conference

On Thursday, October 18th, seven Penn-Trafford employees presented at the Pennsylvania School Board Association Leadership Conference. The PSBA Conference is a three day conference co-sponsored by the Pennsylvania Association of School Administrators.  Hundreds of people attend the conference from school districts from all over the State.  The conference designates booths to showcase innovative programs that are occurring in Pennsylvania public schools.  Our school district was honored to be chosen to present.

Erin Rizzer, Beth Miller and Karin Coiner from Sunrise Elementary and Devon Vaia, Larry Hohman, Kim Lantz and Jeff Swartz from Harrison Park presented on the school districts attempts at customized learning for our students.  As many of you know, these two schools are undertaking a pilot program to work through ideas of how to customize the educational experience for their students.  The team applied to PSBA last Spring to have a booth at the conference.  The team worked hard over the past few months to organize an informative booth that would spread the news of customized learning and offer advice to any school district that had questions.   The team handed out pamphlets they created explaining the process and had a video of an elementary child working through a customized learning experience.  As I worked my way through  the conference floor, many of my colleagues approached me and commented to me about our program.  Our team did a great job of engaging passers-by to promote customized learning. The team talked to over 100 people during our day manning the "Customized Learning Booth". Great Job!