Center to be site for 2 more seminars

Westminster College Drinko Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning will host two other education seminars Feb. 27-28.
"Best Practices for Math Literacy: Comprehensive Strategies that Produced a Culture of Math Achievement in the South Fayette School District," will be at 4 p.m. Feb. 27, and "Best Administrative Practices Series: Optimizing the Use of the School Counseling Program for Academic Success" is scheduled for 9 a.m. Feb. 28. Both seminars will take place in the Lakeview Room in the McKelvey Campus Center.
The math literacy workshop features several educators from the South Fayette School District, which has been recognized as having one of the highest overall math achievement levels on the annual Pennsylvania System of School Assessment test in western Pennsylvania over the past three years.
The team will share the district's vision and strategies around curriculum, instruction and assessment that ensure all students meet proficiency in mathematics.
The best administrative practices seminar features Dr. Judy Bowers, who supervises the 170 kindergarten-through-12th-grade school counselors who serve 61,000 pupils in the Tucson (Ariz.) Unified School District, and Christopher Laudo, a 12-year school counselor veteran for the Pequea Valley School District in Lancaster, Pa.
They will present program opportunities to make school counselors a more significant part of the successful mission of schools.
For registration, contact Carol Fiumara at the Tri-State Area School Study Council at (412) 648-7185 or e-mail fuimara@pitt.edu. Applications can also be mailed to 4302 Wesley W. Posvar Hall, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh 15260.