School District Support Services

Contact: Jill Martin, 724-774-7800 Ext. 3015

 

Monthly collaboration with district curriculum representatives to receive updates, share ideas and think together.

 

New for '21-'22 Accelerated Learning via PDE:  click HERE

 

Act 13 - Educator Effectiveness SAS Toolkit on Act 13

 

The comprehensive planning process fulfills the requirements of Chapter 4, Professional Education Plan, Special Education as well as Chapter 12 plans. Staff members are available to assist school and district administrators in utilizing the online “Future Ready Comprehensive Planning Portal” to design and submit the required plans to the Pennsylvania Department of Education.

 

CDTs:
Assistance is provided in the use of the Pennsylvania Classroom Diagnostic Tools (CDT), which is a set of online assessments, divided by content area, designed to provide diagnostic information in order to guide instruction and remediation. This service is intended to assist educators in improving the chances of academic success in their classrooms through the use of data.

 

•  PD Links and  Resources Available
• CDT Quick Start Dashboard
• CDT Deeper Data Dive Dashboard
• CDT Test Set Up Flow Chart & Slides
• Chart: Filter Range Scores to Make Groups
• Video:  Generating a Batch Download 
• Video: Creating Student groups 
• YouTube Channel:  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3tpa-9Om3q0iwW13RXgkDEQWSMA_UEqy

 

Click HERE for access to instructional, school climate, equity, online learning and other valuable resources for school district educators. 

 

The Education for Children and Youth Experiencing Homelessness (ECYEH) program, formerly the Homeless Children’s Initiative, provides technical assistance, training and support to school districts in nine southwestern Pennsylvania counties related to the McKinney-Vento Act, Subtitle B. The ECYEH staff works with families and community agencies to facilitate enrollment and to remove barriers to education for children experiencing homelessness. Additionally, ECYEH provides free early childhood programming, summer literacy activities and educational field trips for children residing in shelters when class is not in session.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assistance is provided in the use of this PA assessment tool to look at trends, growth and projection targets. 

Resources

Foundations of PVAAS Student Projections (30 min video)

Foundations of PVAAS Growth Reporting (30 min video)

Understanding PVAAS to Round the Bases & Head to Home (9 min video)

What Educators Should Know About PVAAS Student Probabilities (PDF)

Changes in PA’s Assessment System: Is there an impact on PVAAS?

Including Retesters’ Keystone Scores in District & School Growth Calculations (PDF)

Keep It Simple: Explain PVAAS in Everyday Language (PDF)

Teacher Self-Reflection Guide (PDF)

Digging Deeper documents (PDF) o   Students with History of Higher Achievement o   Students with History of Lower Achievement o   Math/Algebra o   ELA/Literature o   Science/Biology

PVAAS Report Flowcharts (PDF) o   District Leaders Flowchart o   School Leaders Flowchart o   K-12 Content Leaders Flowchart o   Teacher Leaders Flowchart o   Teachers Flowchart o   School Counselors Flowchart

Connect PVAAS Reports to Your Purpose (PDF) o   District Leaders o   School Leaders o   K-12 Content Leaders o   Teacher Leaders o   Teachers o   School Counselors

 

 

This support focuses on effective teaching practices for helping students overcome some of the biggest struggles with the text dependent analysis (TDA) portion of the PSSA. Sessions will focus on teaching students how to understand the prompt, read and write for analysis, determine the best evidence, and craft the essay. Participants will engage in modeled research-based and classroom-tested activities to strengthen their own instruction.