Act 48 • About Time We Have Fun Again: Teaching Strategies to Improve Achievement and Engagement
45 Act 48 Hours — or upgrade to 90 Act 48 Hours + 3 Graduate Credits. Online & Self-Paced.
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Complete this course and we upload your 45 Act 48 hours directly to PERMS. Want to fast-track with 90 Act 48 hours and/or bank 3 graduate credits toward a lane change? You can add the optional graduate-credit upgrade anytime.
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Standard option. Finish the course, and we report your hours to PERMS — no extra steps.
Enrollment stays $165.
Add 3 credits anytime: pay the optional $190 transcript fee — even after you complete the course.
Instead of 45 hours, PDE reports 90 hours when you choose the credit option.
Credits appear on a letter-grade transcript (UMass Global).
Apply graduate credits toward district salary lane movement.
You’ll get the purchase link inside your course, and your official UMass Global transcript is provided.
4-Course Bundle (180 Hours)
$399 (save $261 vs. buying 4 courses individually).
Complete all 4 now or take them one at a time. No deadlines.
(Optional 3 graduate credits per course.)
Course Description:
Join teacher-wellness guru Chanelle Walker, M.Ed., as she guides you through reimagining learning environments as places where educators and students are having fun while achieving. This course is designed to help you recognize the critical role of joy in enhancing student engagement—and, in turn, achievement—in the classroom.
By integrating fun into everyday teaching practices, participants will learn to foster curiosity, motivation, and stronger learning outcomes across grade levels. Through research-based strategies, practical tools, and a custom classroom “Fun Playbook,” educators will discover how joy improves retention, builds positive attitudes toward learning, and strengthens classroom culture. With expert insights and interactive activities, this course will transform how you teach—and how your students learn.
What You’ll Learn:
- Evidence-Based Strategies: Explore the science linking joy, engagement, and academic achievement, and use it to design learning experiences that resonate with your students.
- Making Reading Fun: Reignite a love for literacy through gamification, interactive storytelling, and creative challenges that make reading engaging for all learners.
- Fun for the Neurodivergent Learner: Adapt fun-oriented strategies to create inclusive, joyful classrooms that support neurodivergent students and help every learner thrive.
- Fun for the Educator: Discover wellness-focused, joy-infused approaches to prevent burnout, manage stress, and reignite your own passion for teaching.
- Implementing Fun for All: Put your new knowledge into action by creating, testing, and refining your own “Fun Playbook” tailored to your classroom.
Why Educators Choose This Course:
- Joy-Driven Results: Learn how infusing fun directly boosts student motivation, participation, and achievement.
- Inclusive & Practical: Gain a menu of adaptable, evidence-backed strategies that work for diverse learners and grade levels.
- Wellness & Sustainability: Support both student engagement and teacher well-being with strategies that make classrooms thrive long term.
Build a Thriving Classroom Today:
This course empowers educators to make joy an intentional part of their teaching practice. By addressing burnout, fostering inclusivity, and prioritizing student engagement, you’ll transform your classroom into a space where learning feels exciting, motivating, and achievable for every student.
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Start your journey toward a joyful, sustainable classroom — and create a learning environment where both you and your students can thrive.
Self-Paced, Quiz-Based, and Completely Online
Forget portfolios or lengthy written assignments — this is stress-free professional learning designed with YOU in mind. With no start dates and no due dates, you can begin and finish the course whenever it’s convenient. You don’t need to be working with students to complete it, and there are no scheduled meetings. The course is 100% self-paced and self-guided — so you can work whenever and wherever it fits your life.
- ✔️ 100% Online & Self-Paced — Start and finish anytime.
- ✔️ Quiz-Based, No Busywork — Retake quizzes as needed; no meetings.
- ✔️ PreK–12 Relevant — Applies to all grades, subjects, and roles.
Use the enrollment button at the top of this page to get immediate access to your online classroom.
- ✔️ Full access to all course materials
- ✔️ 45 Act 48 hours uploaded to PERMS when you finish
Start anytime. Finish at your own pace.
This optional credit upgrade changes your Act 48 reporting from 45 to 90 total Act 48 hours.
- ✔️ Enrollment stays $165
- ✔️ Pay the optional $190 fee for 3-credits anytime — even after you finish
- ✔️ Credits appear on a letter-grade transcript (UMass Global)
- ✔️ Many PA districts apply graduate credits toward salary lane movement
- ✔️ You’ll get the optional credit purchase link and step-by-step instructions inside your online classroom
Graduate-level semester credit issued by UMass Global — a regionally accredited university partner.
* Each graduate credit equals 30 Act 48 hours.
Your Course Instructor
Chanelle R. Walker, M.Ed. is an educator and well-being leader who helps teachers prevent burnout and build sustainable, realistic routines for thriving in and out of the classroom. With more than a decade of classroom experience and additional years supporting educators across diverse educational settings, she blends research-informed strategies with real-world practicality.
Her TEDx talk, “The Elephant in the Classroom,” highlights her clear, compassionate approach to educator well-being. Chanelle has presented for organizations nationwide, including the J. Paul Getty Museum, Ventura College, and Teach Illinois, and she develops accredited, wellness-centered courses for the University of the Pacific.
Questions? Reach Chanelle and the FTBT instructor team at info@forteachersbyteachers.org.