A: The course is free to participating districts for all teachers who are eligible to receive Act 48 hours and have a PPID. This includes a local district's non-public Pennsylvania Certified teachers and allows them to participate in a study group through the participating district at not charge to meet the Title II. D obligations. Districts should remove the non-public learner from their division after the course(s) is completed. There is a fee for manual account creation if a non-public or public non-certified teacher wishes to participate in the series.

A: Large high schools with more than one principal may initially select representatives from the administrative team to meet the requirement. It is strongly encouraged however, for all members of the administrative team to participate over the four year period.

A: For compliance purposes, if you facilitate a course, it will satisfy the CFF requirement for that course. Facilitators do not need to be both a facilitator and enrolled as a learner.

A: No, but the district may under the current Act 48 guidelines submit the Act 48 hours on behalf of the facilitator. This can only be submitted once per course. If a facilitator facilitates the same course twice, the second facilitation would not be eligible for Act 48 hours.

A: Each teacher listed in the grant has to complete a course for each year of the grant. The first two courses in the series are mandatory and other courses are the district’s selection from the remaining courses in the series. Districts are encouraged, however, to have their teachers complete the entire series.

A: It is a district decision whether to use in-house facilitators or to contract for qualified consultants to facilitate the study groups. LSI will provide qualified contact facilitators to districts seeking this option. Local intermediate units may also be a resource. Districts may be able to use their Title I, Title II or school improvement funds to support either release time for in-house facilitators or contract facilitators.