• PIMS Update - Reporting F2F and Virtual students in PIMS

  • • • Must report when students move in and out of remote learning as part of ARP ESSER Reporting

      • Must be consistent in reporting

      • PDE is concerned with districts marking kids absent during quarantine; PDE suggests you should be offering instruction to students in quarantine 

      • Attendance Toolkit and FAQ from PDE

      • Remote Learning defined as learning environment if other than face-to-face

        • Virtual/Online

          • • • Student at home and teacher online

              • Student in school and teacher online

              • Synchronous

              • Asynchronous

        • Work packets or work that is not online

        • Work assigned online without teacher-student interaction

        • Does not apply to enrollment in a virtual course that supplement LEA course offerings

          • • Advanced placement

            • Dual credit

            • Remediation

      • Mode of Instruction: Hybrid (Program Code 060)

        • Report if student is enrolled in a combination of F2F learning and remote learning as approved by LEAs governing body 

        • Report if more than 5 days of instruction occurs remotely (would not report if the building closed for three days for safety/cleaning)

        • Does not include Flexible Instructional Days (5 day/SY)

        • Generally, quarantines will be reported and count and PDE encourages instruction to take place during the quarantine

      • Full-time virtual/remote (Program Code 061)

        • Report if a student is enrolled in remote learning as approved by the LEAs governing body for 100% of their instruction time for a period longer than five days. 

        • Remember that in most situations, remote learning will count as a day of attendance. How you count remote learning it is a local decision. You must have an approved board policy stating how you will count them and an instructional time template that reflects the board policy. (Examples: certain number of consecutive hours or complete so much work each day or 1 hour in the AM and 1 hour in PM log in, etc.) 

          • • If you are requiring students to complete work when in quarantine, it is not against policy to mark them present if the work was complete. (If they have a board policy for remote learning and have submitted an instructional time template)

• Future Ready PA Index (FRPAI): Updated October 15 with the demographics, attendance, graduation rate, and career standards. 

  1. 1. • Using the most current data set available that was not interrupted by COVID

        • Assessment/Growth data will be added in an update in January and a second update in February. 

        • Year is added in corner so you know what assessment data is showing; right now 2019 test data showing

        • 2018 data is also used as most current data for fiscal data and post grad data

          1. • Fiscal data will be updated in February

             • Post Grad data will be updated in February 

• Act 158 Graduation Pathways

  1. 1. • CONCURRENT COURSES: means dual enrollment; a course that yields post-secondary credit.

        • Does CPR count in evidenced based pathways for Act 158?  It doesn't count in career benchmarks, but it may count for this; waiting for PDE clarification

        •  Act 158 Graduation Pathways SAS Toolkit

• Act 13 Resources

  • • • Danielson Group Free Downloads (at bottom of the page)

• Act 48/Act 45 Update from PDE

• PVAAS Updates

  • • • PVAAS DATA/REPORTING ANTICIPATED RELEASE

        • • Local Assessments: Data Summary Report (PDFs)  Oct 2021

          • Diagnostic Report Redesign on demo site Nov 2021

          • Local Assessments: Unfinished Teaching and Learning Report (PDF)  Fall 2021

          • Local Assessments: Value-Added (PVAAS Website) Winter 2021 (more info from local assessments like subgroups)

          • State Assessments: Value-Added, Diagnostic & Growth of Student Groups; Local Assessments: Diagnostic & Growth of Student Groups; Enrollment Update; Staff Accounts Update; Student Projections; Public Site Release & Update; Diagnostic Report Redesign  Winter 2022

      • PVAAS Local Assessment Reporting - sent to Superintendent/CEO 

        • • Summary Report PDF distributed Oct 2021 (Webinar Nov. 9 11:30-1:00)

          • Unfinished Teaching and Learning PDF Report Fall 2021 (Webinar Nov. 16  11:30-1:00)

          • Value-Added web based reporting Winter 2021 (Demo Site gives you a preview now)  

      • Public and Restricted Log in now aligns and looks the same; still 2019 data but formatted the same way and will now see by grade level on public site and it includes science on public site; Aligns to Future Ready Index 

      • New colors for PVAAS reporting on diagnostic pie charts

        • • Light Blue - Gained

          • Green - Maintained

          • Yellow - Fell behind

      • PVAAS Upcoming webinars including revisiting Roster Verification since we have not conducted this in 2 years! 

      • Even with missing data from 2020, the new projections will be valid as long as their is prior years testing data

• Educator Effectiveness and PVAAS - building scores will available in the fall of 2022 for the 2021-2022 school year, but no growth data will be used until 2024 because you need three years consistent data to utilize this in teacher evaluations

• Comprehensive Planning 

  • • • Plan Release and Due dates for everything in the portal!!

      • Revisions to ATSI plans are completed - Revisions noted with RED and need resigned and resubmitted

      • Chapter 4 reports are updated in portal to reflect Act 13

      • NEW Comp Plan Extension Due Dates by Phase:

        • • Phase 1 - Due March 30, 2023 (New due date)

          • Phase 2 - Due August 30, 2022 (New extension granted by PDE)

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

      • Under Resources Tab - COVID Resources and letters posted to FRCPP

      • Comprehensive Planning Website

      • September Tip Jar

      • Special Education Plan Extension Due Dates

        • • • Phase 1 and Phase 3 are now due July 30, 2022

            • Phase 2 will still be May 1, 2023

• Act 35 Civics Exam Reporting - reporting date delayed (message was sent to superintendents)

  • • • Schools will enter data into Future Ready Comp Portal from November 15 until January 7 

• PaTTAN Updates

  • • • Universal Accessibility Store - accessibility available to anyone; contact Cathy Pfanders cpfanders@pattankop.net 

      • PASA Updates on the PaTTAN Website

      • Paraeducator Certificates and Training Videos  on the PaTTAN website

      • Family Engagement Newsletter through PaTTAN

      • Family Engagement Resource Website through PaTTAN

• Equity and Inclusion Initiative Reports - Rural, Suburban, Urban 

• SEL at the Middle and High School Levels 

• Supporting Child and Student Social, Emotional, Behavioral and Mental Health Needs

• TRETC 2022 - January 16-17

• Esports

  • • • HSEL Website

• Consortium for Public Education - Career Resources

  • • • Career Journeys 

      • Snack and Learn

Grant Opportunity

2022 Environmental Education Grants- Application due December 10, 2021 

• The DEP Environmental Education Grants Program welcomes proposals for innovative formal and nonformal education projects that address water, climate change, and/or Environmental Justice. The application deadline is December 10, 2021 at 11:59 p.m.

• Webinar on how to apply and detailed instructions at Environmental Education Grants.

• Projects with a local focus may receive up to $3,000, and regional and/or statewide initiatives may receive up to $20,000. Projects that widely engage students and teachers within Environmental Justice areas at the local, state, and national levels may be awarded up to $85,000.

Student STEM Opportunities 

Airport Design Challenge

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is thrilled to be hosting another round of the very popular Airport Design Challenge, where students are encouraged to form teams and recreate a real airport in the Minecraft virtual platform.  Students from K-12 can participate using the free version of Minecraft and all of them will get the chance to not only use Minecraft in a unique way, but also learn lessons about aviation and airports along the way.  Student enrollment opens November 1, 2021.

Unfold the Universe Art Challenge

Stars, galaxies, nebulae – oh my! What will NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reveal when it peers back through 13.5 billion years of time? Create, using any form of art, what you think the Webb Telescope will discover for a chance to be featured on NASA's historic launch broadcast.  Join the #UnfoldTheUniverse Art Challenge today.  Deadline for Submissions is December 18, 2021.

Design Moon-Digging Robots with Lunabotics

NASA and Future Engineers are challenging young innovators to help design a new robot concept for an excavation mission on the Moon. The Lunabotics Junior Contest is open to K-12 students in U.S. public and private schools, as well as home-schoolers. Entries are due January 25, 2022.