TExpL Fall Graduate Courses
Expand Your Impact
Today's students need more than content knowledge.
They need to know how to think, collaborate, and solve problems they’ve never encountered before.
TExpL is an experiential instructional framework designed to help you do exactly that — bringing learning to life through real-world challenges, student-driven inquiry, and meaningful collaboration.
Graduate Courses for Today's Educators
Our graduate-level professional learning is designed to help educators create engaging, experiential learning environments through practical strategies they can apply immediately in their classrooms and schools. For more information, contact TExpL Executive Director, Enrollment & Outreach Caryn Stopper at 610-796-5073 or caryn.stopper@alvernia.edu.
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Information
- Instructor: Chris Killinger, Biology Teacher/Instructional Coach, Wyomissing Area SD
- Location: TBD, Alvernia Campus
- Format: Approximately one evening every 2–3 weeks, Thursdays from 5:00–8:00 p.m.
Artificial intelligence is transforming education, and educators need more than just familiarity with emerging tools—they need the confidence to implement them responsibly and effectively. In this course, you'll explore how AI can enhance teaching, learning, and leadership while developing practical strategies you can immediately apply in your classroom, school, or district.
Through hands-on, job-embedded projects, you'll evaluate AI tools, design standards-aligned learning experiences, promote responsible AI use, and develop an AI implementation framework tailored to your professional setting.
Course Highlights
- Explore emerging AI tools and their classroom applications
- Design standards-aligned lessons enhanced by AI
- Build strategies for responsible and ethical AI implementation
- Strengthen student critical thinking and AI literacy
- Create an AI implementation framework for your classroom, school, or district
- Instructor: Mike Kelly, Assistant Superintendent, Fleetwood Area SD
- Location: Fleetwood Area SD—District Administration Office, 801 N. Richmond Street, Fleetwood, PA 19522
- Format: One three-hour evening session each week (5:00–8:00 p.m.) throughout the semester, plus a scheduled make-up date for inclement weather.
Create learning environments where every student can thrive. This course equips educators with practical, research-informed strategies in Universal Design for Learning (UDL), differentiated instruction, collaborative co-teaching, and experiential learning to support diverse learners.
Through job-embedded projects, you'll develop inclusive instructional practices that foster student agency, engagement, and equitable learning experiences—leaving with strategies and tools you can immediately apply in your classroom, school, or district.
Course Highlights
- Design inclusive learning experiences using UDL
- Implement differentiated instructional strategies
- Strengthen collaborative co-teaching practices
- Support equitable outcomes for diverse learners
- Apply an inclusive instructional framework in your professional setting
- Instructor: Kara Zubaty, STEM/Gifted Support Educator, Reading Area SD
- Location: TBD, Alvernia Campus
- Format: Five Thursday evening sessions (5:00–8:00 p.m.) held approximately every two to three weeks during the semester. An Educator Sanctuary session is scheduled at the instructor's discretion using TExpL-approved dates. A designated make-up date will be reserved in the event of inclement weather.
Begin your TExpL Graduate Certificate with the course that lays the foundation for innovative, student-centered teaching. You'll explore the Total Experience Learning (TExpL®) methodology while learning how to cultivate classroom cultures that foster curiosity, creativity, and student agency. Through experiential learning and practical application, you'll develop strategies to design meaningful learning experiences that connect students to the real world.
Course Highlights
- Explore the Total Experience Learning® (TExpL®) methodology
- Build classroom cultures that foster curiosity and student agency
- Design experiential, inquiry-driven learning experiences
- Apply innovative thinking to real-world teaching and learning
- Establish a foundation for continued growth in the TExpL Graduate Certificate
Each course offers:
3 Graduate Credits
Hybrid Format
Act 48 Eligible
Register for one course or continue toward additional graduate study
$1,701 – Tuition Deferment Options available
Designed for Working Educators
Looking to strengthen your instructional practice, expand your professional impact, or explore emerging topics in education? TExpL Graduate Professional Learning provides flexible coursework designed for immediate application.
You'll receive:
- Graduate-level instruction from experienced educators
- Practical strategies you can implement immediately
- Research-informed instructional frameworks
- Graduate credit that supports your professional growth
- Flexible hybrid learning designed for busy professionals
New Approaches
Research consistently shows that experiential learning helps students retain knowledge, strengthen communication and collaboration, develop critical thinking, and build confidence tackling complex challenges. TExpL Graduate Professional Learning gives educators practical, ready-to-implement instructional strategies that make these outcomes possible within their existing classroom, curriculum, and schedule while aligning with state education standards.
Why Educators Choose TExpL
- Practical, classroom-ready strategies
- Job-embedded learning experiences
- Immediate classroom application
- Collaborative professional learning community
- Graduate credits that build toward Alvernia’s Master of Education <link to master’s page or pathway page>
- Research-informed instruction grounded in the Total Experience Learning® framework
Getting Started
Enrolling is simple.
• Register for your selected graduate course.
• Begin learning this fall.
• Enroll as a Guest Student — no graduate admissions application is required for educators taking individual graduate courses.
• Start Your Guest Registration for Fall 2026.
Frequently Asked Questions
Teachers, instructional coaches, specialists, administrators, and aspiring school leaders.
No. Educators taking individual graduate courses complete a Guest Registration rather than a graduate admissions application.
Complete and submit the Online Registration form. You will receive confirmation of your registration and next steps to activate your Alvernia accounts within 3-5 business days.
Yes. Courses may be taken individually.
Yes. Each course combines in-person instruction with online learning.
Yes. All courses are Act 48 eligible.
Yes. Graduate credits may be applied toward Alvernia's Master of Education.
Yes, you are required to submit Alvernia’s Tuition Deferment Form upon registering for the course.
Ready to Expand Your Impact?
• Build practical strategies.
• Create meaningful learning experiences.
• Strengthen student learning.
• Continue growing as an educator.