ChatGPT prompt of the month for school leaders

• Prompt

Comp Planning

• CP Google Site

• CP Tip Jar

• Educator Effectiveness Annual Report will be released on December 20th and is due on February 28th.

• Check the Master List here.

• All Phase 2 Schools are due on March 31, 2023

Chapter 49 updates

• Empathy is considered CR-SE

• Are there ramifications for a district whose Board refuses to sign their comp plan with the CR-SE box checked or any description related to CR-SE included?  LEAs can submit with the assurance unchecked. As long as they have a training that is a Culturally Relevant and Sustaining Education training, they have met the requirement within the School Code. I am happy to discuss this with the superintendent. - Amy Lena

• Are there any updates or additional supportive resources/ guidelines for implementing the CRSE framework for LEAs? There will be a SAS course, and PDE is creating a resource. - Amy Lena 

22-23 Assessments

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Emetric

• All testing data should be loaded into your districts Emetric account.  

• Emetric Support

PVAAS

• The new public release has been updated.

• Updates

• PVAAS Fall Release: A Four-Step Focus for LEA/District Leaders

• PVAAS Fall Release: A Four-Step Focus for School Leaders

• SY 23-24 Professional Learning

FRPAI 

• How are the blue, green, and red colors determined to a district?  Link

• State ESSA Goals

• Overview

ACT 13

• Building Level Scores

ACT 158

• Greater than 5% waiver for two consecutive years, will trigger an audit.

• Due December 1st.

ACT 45

• July 2024 there will be online registration that will consist of all the trainings

• Minimum of 10 hours for a PIL course.

• Must be an ACT 48 provider in order to provide ACT 45.

PDESAS Updates

• Updates

Human Capital

• Carissa Pokorny Golden, Director, Bureau of School Leadership and Teacher Quality (PDF of Carissa’s slides)

• Point Park has an Teacher Certificate program. https://www.pointpark.edu/academics/schools/education/abcte

Career Education & Work; Family and Consumer Science; Economic Standards

• Believed to start writing standards in July of 2024.  It is believed to be fully implemented by the 2026-2027 SY.  Implementation will be similar to the implementation of the STEEL standards.

• Certification

  • Certification and Staffing Policy Guidelines (CSPG) that pertain to economic education/financial literacy certification, and course assignment include: CSPG 33 - Business, Computer and Information Technology; CSPG 35 - Citizenship Education; CSPG 44 - Family and Consumer Sciences; CSPG 49 - Marketing/Distributive Education; CSPG 50 - Mathematics; and CSPG 59 - Social Studies.

ELA Content Updates

• Listening Sessions updates Kate Bacher and Jennifer Wicht

• Structured Literacy Slides

STEELS Standards Implementation

• Update

• Go slow, don't do a wholesale change. The change is more about the teaching and learning. Follow the implementation plan.

• SAS Institute will have a Science seminar (Tuesday afternoon).

• PDE will use the SAS Assessment Toolkit to release questions for the STEEL standards

• Changes to Biology exam are minimal at best.

Fusion

• Slides

Prisms

• VR Math

SAS Institute (Dec 11-13)

• Register Here

PIL Courses

• IU1 PIL Courses

Upcoming Mathematics Education Conferences

PA STEELS Standards Updates

• PSSA/ Keystone Assessment Update- Updated Timeline

PA STEELS Standards Professional Learning Opportunities with Alyssa

• A Framework K-12 Science Education Book Study- Starting soon! December 4, 2023-June 4, 2024- Register here

• Alyssa's Resource Page to Support the STEELS Standards Implementation- ⭐BOOKMARK⭐

  • Action Planning Templates- based on the Implemenation Plan shared on the PA STEELS Hub

    • Teacher Action Plan Template

    • Administrator Action Plan Template

    • District / LEA Action Plan Template

Curriculum Materials Support

• Recent Resources from IU1's PennSEL Network 

  • RESEARCH: Curriculum Materials Designed for the Next Generation Science Standards Show Promise- a randomized study that took place in 2020 with middle school teachers and students implementing the Amplify Middle School Science Curriculum.  

  • Key Takeaways for Transforming Science Education - This resource discusses Five Key Takeaways for Achieving Equitable Science Instruction for ALL students 

  • NGSS Claims: How Publishers Talk about the NGSS

  • STEELS T&E and NGSS Crosswalk Report

  • STEELS EL&S and NGSS Crosswalk Report

    • Key Findings of this work:

      • Overall: How many STEELS Standards would likely be covered by an NGSS-designed program?

        • 88% of the 370 STEELS Standards K-12 would likely be addressed

        • That leaves 43 standards (12%) to address 

        • Breakdown by Disciplines:

          • Science- 196 Standards (100%) likely addressed

          • Technology and Engineering- 116 standards (80%) likely addressed- leaving 29 additional standards to ensure get covered outside of that program

          • Environmental Literacy and Sustainability- 21 standards (73%) likely addressed- leaving 8 additional standards to ensure get covered outside of that program

TDA Guide for each step of quality text analysis instruction

Calling all Poets

On behalf of the Pittsburgh Center for Arts and Media (PCA&M) and PA Council on the Arts invite you and your students to participate in 2023-24 Poetry Out Loud (POL)! Please see below. 

Dear Educator:

POL is a national poetry recitation contest for students in grades 9-12.  It’s an innovative, enjoyable, and exciting program that provides opportunities for teachers and students to explore poetry and recitation within the context of a multi-layered competition process that ranges from classrooms to Washington D.C.  (In Pennsylvania, we move from school competitions, to regionals, to state, to national.) POL is a partnership of the National Endowment for the Arts, Poetry Foundation, and state and jurisdictional arts agencies,

Participation in POL is at no cost to your school and can connect directly with your curriculum, aligning with PA Core Standards.

Please take time to read through the three POL PDF attachments and visit PCA&M’s Poetry Out Loud webpage where additional essential information and forms are available.

These are also available in this PCA&M Poetry Out Loud google drive folder.

Note that the info, forms, and documents are included on our site in the order they should be read and tended to. In the drive folder, they are numbered.

Please email Mary Brenholts, Director of Artists in Schools & Communities at PCA&M, at mbrenholts@pghartsmedia.org for additional information or with any questions.

I’m more than happy to email you the info sheets/PDFs/forms as attachments if desired!  I’m always available to answer questions, discuss possibilities, and share information whether by email or by phone 412-606-4723.

Please share POL information with friends and colleagues!

Sincerely,

Mary