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Who is Learner's Edge Inc.?

Our company was founded on the belief that teachers need applicable professional development opportunities that are value priced and apply directly to their teaching and student learning. In short, just like you, we wanted to make a difference in education.

All of our courses have been created by teachers in the field and have had high satisfaction ratings by educators. Our staff development initiatives have been met with enthusiastic response. We are excited about what we do, and how together we can work to improve teaching and student learning.

You have an opportunity to join the thousands of educators across the nation who have already gained an edge in their professional development. We look forward to being a partner in your professional journey!

Will these courses count towards a lane change and/or license renewal?

What qualifications do Learner's Edge instructors have?

1. Consulting Services: Learner's Edge specializes in creative teaching strategies and will work hand in hand with your initiatives to create meaningful graduate credit options.
2. District Initiatives: Align district goals and initiatives with graduate credit!  We can partner with your district to offer graduate credit for extension activities tied to staff development goals/programs.
3. School/Site Based Options: We can personalize our extension activities to align with your school/site staff development goals and provide graduate credit for your staff.
4. Book Studies: Interested in the latest educational trend or need research for your classroom initiatives? Create a book study centered around a popular text of your choice. Share your learning and excitement with other teachers at your school around concepts/strategies of similar interest. Contact us to get started!
5. Workshops/Conferences: Is your organization planning a workshop/conference?  Would you like to add more value to the experience by extending attendee learning?  Learner's Edge specializes in creating workshop/conference extension activities and coordinating graduate credit through our partner colleges/universities.
6. I-Course: Do you have a topic you are excited to learn more about?  Can't find a current course to meet your needs? The I-course allows you to create your own course. Contact us to begin!

All of our courses are formatted in a similar manner. Feel free to call or email for more specific requirements or questions:

1. Read the course text.
   Each course has its own course text(s) that contains a myriad of practical strategies and methods for the classroom teacher. Learner's Edge. uses only the most popular and applicable texts in the field.
2. Respond to the questions on the accompanying study guide.
   Each course has one study guide with 12-15 questions. The questions are designed to help you synthesize what you have been learning in the course text and apply that to your classroom. These questions are not designed to be "essay questions" or "papers."
3. Complete the application requirements.
   Each course requires that you create something applicable to your teaching situation. This typically involves creating a series of short lessons using the strategies, or designing activities to try with your students.

As you can see, course requirements are all designed to be relevant and useful to teachers in their classrooms. Next to each course description on our web page, we have included several comments from teachers who have taken that particular course. Please take a moment to read what teachers like you have to say about Learner's Edge courses!

If you are planning to use one or more of our courses to satisfy Pennsylvania Act 48 requirements please note the following:

• All credits and hours must be related to an educator’s certificate type or area of assignment, unless enrolled in an administrative program or approved by the school board.
• Collegiate credits earned outside of Pennsylvania must be submitted on an official college-sealed transcript to:

  PDE Act 48 Transcripts

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If you have specific questions regarding Act 48 please contact the Pennsylvania Department of Education at www.pde.state.pa.us or 717-772-4944

Yes. DPI approval is no longer required for courses taken through accredited out-of-state institutions.  On-site, online, independent study, or correspondence courses are acceptable as long as they are related to your licensure area or professional competence.  If you would like more information on this, please visit www.dpi.state.wi.us/tepdl/tm-license.html

If you are considering taking a course through Learner's Edge and one of our accredited academic partners, we always recommend that you follow any school/district pre-approval policies that may be in place.

Learner's Edge has built their reputation on our text-based, distance learning courses.  These courses have no online assignment submission requirements.

In an effort to give our customers more choice in when, where and how they learn, we have partnered with the well known, and highly regarded Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) to make available for credit, over 50 ASCD online courses.

Be assured, no matter which learning model you choose, you will find our offerings to be leading edge, thought provoking, and versatile.

If you only need clock hours for professional development, and do not need full graduate credit and a university transcript, auditing a course may be a good option for you.

Our onsite and text-based distance learning courses can be audited.  The course fee is lower for an audited course, since you won't receive a university transcript.  Rather, you'd receive a letter of completion on Learner's Edge letterhead documenting successful completion of the course and indicating the credit value associated with the course.

Since you are accountable for the clock hours earned through an audit, the requirements/assignments when auditing a course are the same as the requirements/assignments when taking the course for graduate credit.