Curriculum Updates

Our educator workforce not only represents a critical sector of the commonwealth's economy, but educators also play a doubly important role in preparing young learners to participate in and lead our communities, our governments, our businesses, and our families in the future. It is therefore appropriate that the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) establish August 2025 as a key date by which we plan to achieve many of the ambitious goals laid out in the Pennsylvania Educator Workforce Strategy.”

"A specific date has not been announced by PDE. PVAAS Teacher Specific reporting will be released in the fall with PVAAS District and School Reporting. We anticipate the timing of this to be similar to the timing of reporting PVAAS release before COVID with a bit of extra time added as the Spring 2022 testing window was extended for districts. PVAAS account holders will receive an email when the reporting has been released on the PVAAS website."

"Around late October - early November"---approximate timeframe given at PAIUCC on September 15th.

Prepare your LEA/district for the upcoming PVAAS reporting release this fall by taking the following steps linked here in this document.

There is an updated section in the Act 148 Toolkit in the SAS portal titled "New and Noteworthy". Included in this section are:

• The most recent updates (2 score Keystone Composite, COVID extenuating circumstances waiver) regarding the requirements;
• An updated Pennsylvania Pathways to Graduation graphic;
• A Graduation Trail (Student's Journey) Graphic;
• And a FAQ document developed from July 2022.

There is also a new document under the "Act 158 Pathways to Graduation Toolkit" tab, "Comparison of Student Evidence: College & Career Readiness and Statewide Graduation". The chart compares student evidence common to both College & Career Readiness (as reflected in the Future Ready PA Index) and the Pennsylvania Pathways to Graduation, highlighting similarities/differences to assist schools in identifying student experience applicability.

Finally, a section titled "Assessment Data Sources" has been added to the toolkit and includes a Data Sources FAQ document.

There is a fall webinar coming up on September 20, 2022 and Act 158 office hours available on September 27th. Click here to see the document with connection links.

Return of Teacher-Specific Data: Fall 2022!

1-Year Teacher-Specific Growth Measure: Not included in Act 13 evaluations (need 3-year average)

• Act 13=10% for Teacher Specific Data
• Teacher Specific data includes: PVAAS Growth, % P/A, and IEP Goals Progress.
• Teachers will not have PVAAS Growth until 2024 (3 yr. trend) so % P/A=5% and IEP Goals Progress=5%. If a LEA has an N count of 11 and teachers do not have 11, the IEP Goals Progress will be 10%
• If an LEA did not roster 3rd grade, will not have P/A%

NEW RESOURCE! Teacher Flip-It

• PA Teacher Flip-It PDF late Sept. or early Oct.

• Print copies for teachers mailed to District Superintendents

• Number based on Fall 2019 teacher reporting

• Electronic Flip-Its under development

Click here for the full PVAAS updates provided at the state level this month.

Sign up here for PVAAS/K-12 webinars

Sign up here for the roster verification webinars

Comprehensive Plans (*Extension includes all State Required Reports*)

• Phase 1 - Due March 30, 2023
• Phase 2 - Due August 30, 2022 (Extension granted by PDE)

• Phase 3 - Due August 30, 2022 (Extension granted by PDE)

Special Education Plans:

• Phase 1 - Due July 30, 2022 *UPDATED*
• Phase 2 - Due May 1, 2023 (Now available in the FRCPP)
• Phase 3 - Due July 30, 2022 *UPDATED*

K-12 Guidance Plan (339) - UPDATED as of 3/11/22

• Phase 1 – March 31, 2024

• Phase 2 – March 31, 2025

• Phase 3 – March 31, 2023

Please click here to access the full statewide comprehensive planning team's August edition of the CP Tip Jar.

IUs will deliver training to the schools in three key areas of concentration (CRSE, Professional Ethics, Structured Literacy)

• Fall 2024-2025 new induction programs must be approved and will begin (two year requirement now instead of one year requirement)
• Need to have induction plan updated by this time (must resubmit if working under a previous plan) even if falls outside of your comp planning cycle

If you are in a comprehensive planning cycle now--submit the induction plan as you currently have it. PDE will release an update that will have to be completed when it's time. From Michele Buck:

"At this point, LEAs should not worry about Ch 49 until further instructions come from PDE. They will have all information forthcoming, but for this submission, everyone should follow the previous regulations."

October 3, 2022 – Individual Student Reports Arrive

October 10, 2022 – District and School Summary Reports Available

Please click here to access the state averages for Spring 2022 Keystone Scores that are available in eMetric. As soon as state averages are available for the PSSA data, I will pass those along as well.

Reporting opened in the FRCPP as of September 14th, 2022. The deadline for reporting of the 2021-2022 test results will be December 1st.

Thank you for a wonderful inservice season! We truly enjoyed providing professional learning activities to your teachers and staff in the month of August. We look forward to the continued opportunities to work with you and your school teams!

Meetings this year will be held on the following dates at ARIN from 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM:

• Wednesday, October 5, 2022
• Thursday, December 15, 2022
• Wednesday, February 22, 2023
• Wednesday, May 24, 2023

There is no cost for participating in this group and there will be five hours of Act 48 available per session following completion. Lunch will be on your own. Please click here to view an informational flyer about these sessions. Any math teachers that are interested should contact Lacie Cook at lcook@iu28.org, or call at 724-463-5300, ext. 1247.

Participants in this network will be introduced to the new PA Science standards, 3 Dimensional Learning, Environmental Learning, etc. Educators can share with others and learn about successful classroom strategies as well. Meetings will be held from 9:00 - 3:30 at the ARIN Central Office and five and half (5.5) Act 48 hours will be awarded for each session. Lunch will be on your own. There is no cost to attend these networking events.

Meeting dates for the year are:

• October 5, 2022
• December 8, 2022
• January 12, 2023
• March 29, 2023

Click here to view an informational flyer about these sessions.

Some resources and supports to look for in the coming months include:

• Navigating the process of offering non-CTE, local industry recognized credentials using free platforms and other strategies to support the evidence based Act 158 Pathway

• Workshops offered to schools and businesses in applied digital skills as part of ARIN’s new designation as a Grow with Google community partner

Please visit the Career Readiness Smore for additional updates. Stacie has been reaching out to districts and community partners to learn about existing programs and areas of need surrounding career readiness; please reach out if you haven’t connected with her yet: sisenberg@iu28.org | 724.463.5300 x1216