Act 48 • A Growth Mindset for You and Me: Strategies for Teachers and Students to Increase Abilities and Achievement
45 Act 48 Hours — or upgrade to 90 Act 48 Hours + 3 Graduate Credits. Online & Self-Paced.
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Finish at your own pace — and we handle the reporting.
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.
Confirm For Teachers By Teachers in the official PDE PERMS system.
- Choose “View Approved Providers.”
- In Provider Name, type: For Teachers By Teachers.
- Press Search to see our active listing.
Choose your option:
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:
Education specialist Chanelle Walker, M.Ed., is here to show you how to turn challenges into opportunities with the transformative power of a growth mindset. This highly practical FTBT Partner course equips educators with research-backed strategies to foster resilience, increase achievement, and help students and teachers alike develop the belief that abilities can grow through effort and learning.
What You’ll Learn:
- The Science of Growth Mindset: Understand how a growth mindset can close achievement gaps and empower students to overcome academic challenges.
- Practical Strategies for the Classroom: Learn evidence-based techniques to cultivate a growth mindset in your students and yourself.
- Embracing Challenges Together: Discover how to reframe the frustrations of teaching students below grade level into opportunities for growth and collaboration.
- Building Resilience and Achievement: Equip yourself with tools to inspire perseverance, improve problem-solving, and celebrate progress.
Why Educators Love This Course:
- Actionable Insights: Gain practical strategies you can use immediately to support your students and your teaching goals.
- Research-Backed Results: Learn from studies showing how a growth mindset drives higher achievement and greater equity.
- Empowering for Teachers and Students: Develop a classroom culture that thrives on effort, creativity, and continuous learning.
Transform Your Classroom Today:
By fostering a growth mindset, you’ll help students believe in their potential and give them the tools to achieve it. This course will inspire you to embrace today’s educational challenges as opportunities to grow and succeed — together.
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Join us and unlock the power of a growth mindset for yourself and your students. Let's turn setbacks into triumphs, one step at a time.
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.