Instructional Delivery Model for SY20-21: Toolkit

On July 28th, 2020 PDE released the guidance document Selecting & Implementing an Instructional Delivery Model for SY20-21: Toolkit for Pennsylvania LEAs.

This toolkit was created by Mass Insight Education & Research in partnership with the Pennsylvania Department of Education.

The Scenario Planning Guide provides a variety of resources to help local education agency (LEA) planning teams organize their work, choose an instructional delivery model, and effectively implement the selected model(s). This toolkit aims to guide LEAs through the process of selecting and implementing an instructional delivery model for the fall that maximizes in-person learning while protecting the health and safety of students and staff. The resources provided in the guide are highly adaptive and can be tailored to meet each local community's context and needs.

The purpose of this toolkit is to help local education agencies (LEAs) plan to facilitate high quality student learning while protecting the health and safety of all stakeholders during the 2020-2021 school year. Specifically, this toolkit aims to guide LEAs through the process of selecting and implementing an instructional delivery model that maximizes in-person learning and ensures standards-aligned and rigorous remote learning – when remote learning is necessary. This toolkit does not, and is not intended to, prescribe a specific course of action. Each LEA has unique needs that will require careful work by leaders, staff, families, and students. The best plan for one community may not be the best plan for another. Instead, this toolkit is intended to provide a set of guiding questions and recommended steps that LEAs can take in order to prepare for the coming year.

The toolkit provides a variety of resources to help LEA planning teams organize their work, choose an instructional delivery model, and plan to implement that model.

Each section of the toolkit includes a brief description of one way to approach the work and tools that LEAs can download and adapt/adopt. The steps below can be addressed in the order presented, in another order, iteratively, and/or with additional steps added. LEAs are strongly encouraged to review the entire toolkit prior to beginning work.

Links in the sheet above will take you directly to PDE's Website for the most updated information.

This toolkit is based in consideration of guidance from federal and state education and public health authorities and as of its release the authors are not aware of any information or suggestions contained herein that run counter to current guidance. As guidance is being continually updated using new information, LEAs are encouraged to regularly check to ensure specific requirements have not changed.