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2025-2026 Graduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Graduate Catalog

Supervisor of Pupil Personnel Services, Certification


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K-12 district-wide Supervisory certificate for Pupil Personnel Services in the following:

  • Coordinate or supervise all of the pupil personnel service areas,
  • Design and develop supporting materials and innovative and experimental processes and programs,
  • Direct or conduct basic or applied research within the pupil personnel service areas,
  • Articulate the pupil personnel services within the instructional services.

Pennsylvania Administrative/Supervisory Certification


Pennsylvania Department of Education approved programs of graduate study.  Must be planned with an academic adviser to ensure completion of all program requirements.

Candidates must meet with an academic adviser during the final year of coursework to plan for the internship sequence and begin work on their professional portfolio.

 

Professional Education Course Requirements


All content courses are 8-weeks and are delivered online, asynchronously. Students may begin courses in fall, spring, or summer. All internship courses run for 15-week semesters in Fall, Spring, and Summer.

 

Certification Requirements


Pupil Personnel Services supervisory certificate requires five years of certified service on a state issued public school certificate in the school program area for which the certificate is sought. A Pupil Personnel Services Supervisory certificate requires the service to be in an educational specialist area. The service must be (i) valid for the assignment in the state in which such service was performed, and (ii) comparable to Pennsylvania’s Type 01 or 04 emergency permit or Intern, Level I or Level II certificate.

CSPG 9 - Service Requirements for Initial Supervisory and Administrative Certificates and Letters of Eligibility​

 

 

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