Sas 101 1.1.2011[1]

An Overview of SAS

Why SAS?

“Their theory…holds that is all education stakeholders focus without vacillation on six components (clear standards, curriculum frameworks, materials and resources, instruction, fair assessments, and interventions) in all trainings, professional development, resources, and technical assistance, then student achievement will improve rapidly. These six components comprise Pennsylvania’s Standards Aligned System (SAS).”

“Singing Out of the Same Songbook: The Standards Aligned System in

Pennsylvania” – Adam Tanney, 2010 – p.4Copyright ©2010 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 2

Pennsylvania’s SAS Web Portal

http://www.pdesas.com

SAS Portal OverviewThere are two environments to SAS: Public

Non-registered Information and resources about the six

elements are available to the public Registered Users

All public information available as well as the Teacher Tools

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The Six Elements of the Pennsylvania Standards Aligned System

Users can access information about the Standards Aligned System by hovering on a circle or by clicking on one of the tabs under the SAS logo (when on the SAS

portal).



Clear Standards

FairAssessments

CurriculumFramework

Instruction

Materials & Resources

Interventions

StudentAchievement


• Pennsylvania Academic Standards describe what all students should know and be able to do as a result of instruction.

• Standards are displayed in multiple ways depending on a user’s needs.

• Standards can also be downloaded from this view.

Clear Standards

FairAssessments

Instruction


Interventions

StudentAchievement

Curriculum Framework


Fair Assessments are a collection of evaluation tools used to measure student performance.

Types of Assessment :• Summative• Formative• Benchmark• Diagnostic

Clear Standards

FairAssessments

Instruction


Interventions

StudentAchievement



Drawn from the Academic Standards, the Curriculum Framework is a set of teaching topics by subject and grade level. Incorporated are :

• Big Ideas

•Concepts

•Competencies

• Essential Questions

The Curriculum Framework is aligned to Standards and, where appropriate, Eligible Content.

Clear Standards


Instruction


Interventions

StudentAchievement

FairAssessments


Instruction is a collection of videos and other digital resources that highlight effective teaching strategies.

StudentAchievement

Clear Standards

Instruction


InterventionsFair

Assessments



StudentAchievement

Clear Standards


Instruction

InterventionsFair

Assessments


Materials and Resources are a collection of curricular assets to assist educators in delivering standards aligned instruction.

• Voluntary Model Curriculum (VMC), incorporating learning progressions.

• Units and lesson plans.

• Content resources aligned to the Pennsylvania Academic Standards.


StudentAchievement

Clear Standards


Instruction

InterventionsFair

Assessments


•Learning progressions illustrate how students grow academically and articulate what they are learning at each grade level.•They can be defined as roads or pathways that students travel as they progress toward mastery of the skills needed for career and college readiness.• Each road follows a route composed of a collection of building blocks that are defined by the content standards for a subject.


StudentAchievement

Clear Standards

Instruction

FairAssessments


Materials &

Resources

Interventions

The purpose of interventions is to ensure students are provided with the standards-based supports they need to meet/exceed grade level standards.

Coming SoonThe Circles are

changing!


StudentAchievement

Clear Standards

Instruction

FairAssessments


Materials &

Resources

Interventions

and

Instruction

As SAS has been evolving and growing over time, feedback has indicated that while both the instruction and intervention elements are valuable assets, separating them into two district SAS elements is counterintuitive in terms of delivery of instruction; thus, the merging of these two creates the opportunity to create a key element missing from the current design: School Safety and Culture. This element will be developed and will include critical elements such as school climate standards, issues of bullying, and materials and resources to support safe schools.

School

Safety and

Culture

Other Features

RSS Feed-RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication Retrieves the latest content from websites you are

interested in Notifies you of changes or updated content Users who subscribe to the RSS Feed will receive an

email notifying them of updates


• Informational Items– Provides statistics about SAS usage.

• Teacher Tools– Allows registered users access to compile a personal

portfolio of resources, create standards based assessments, and to share those resources with other through a website. Also, the PD Center provides a platform to allow teachers across Pennsylvania to take online Professional Development to meet Act 48 requirements for certification.


For Help…• Click on Help in the upper right-hand corner of any page in the

portal

The SAS Portal Help Desk website contains:• Help Desk Information and Hours• System Requirements• FAQs• Training Materials• About SAS• Glossary of terms


Sas 101 1.1.2011[1]

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