This is an overview of the PA Standards Aligned System.

1. An Overview of SAS

2. Why SAS?
“Their theory…holds that is all education stakeholders
focus without vacillation on six components (clear
standards, curriculum frameworks, materials and
resources, instruction, fair assessments, and
interventions) in all trainings, professional
development, resources, and technical assistance, then
student achievement will improve rapidly. These six
components comprise Pennsylvania’s Standards
Aligned System (SAS).”
“Singing Out of the Same Songbook: The Standards Aligned System in Pennsylvania”
– Adam Tanney, 2010 – p.4
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3. Pennsylvania’s SAS Web Portal
http://www.pdesas.com

4. SAS Portal Overview
There are two environments to SAS:
 Public
 Non-registered
 Information and resources about the six
elements are available to the public
 Registered Users
 All public information available as well as the
Teacher Tools
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5. The Six Elements of the Pennsylvania
Standards Aligned System
Users can access information about the Standards
Aligned System by hovering on a circle or by
clicking on one of the tabs under the SAS logo
(when on the SAS portal).
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6. Clear
Standards
Fair
Interventions Assessments
Materials & Curriculum
Resources Framework
Instruction
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7. • Pennsylvania Academic
Clear
Standards Standards describe what
all students should know
Fair and be able to do as a
Interventions Assessments
result of instruction.
• Standards are displayed
in multiple ways
Materials & Curriculum
depending on a user’s
Resources Framework
needs.
Instruction
• Standards can also be
downloaded from this
view.
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8. Fair Assessments
Clear
are a collection of
Standards
evaluation tools used
Interventions
Fair
Assessments to measure student
performance.
Types of Assessment :
Materials &
Resources
Curriculum
Framework
• Summative
• Formative
Instruction • Benchmark
• Diagnostic
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9. Drawn from the Academic
Standards, the Curriculum
Clear Framework is a set of teaching
Standards
topics by subject and grade
level. Incorporated are :
Fair
Interventions Assessments
• Big Ideas
•Concepts
•Competencies
Materials &
Curriculum
• Essential Questions
Resources
Framework
The Curriculum Framework is
Instruction aligned to Standards
and, where
appropriate, Eligible Content.
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10. Instruction is a
Clear
Standards collection of videos
Fair
and other digital
Interventions Assessments
resources that
highlight effective
teaching strategies.
Materials & Curriculum
Resources Framework
Instruction
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11. Materials and Resources are
a collection of curricular
Clear
Standards
assets to assist educators in
delivering standards aligned
Fair instruction.
Interventions Assessments
• Voluntary Model
Curriculum
(VMC), incorporating
learning progressions.
Materials & Curriculum
Resources Framework
• Units and lesson plans.
Instruction
• Content resources aligned
to the Pennsylvania
Academic Standards.
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12. •Learning progressions illustrate
how students grow academically
Clear
Standards and articulate what they are
learning at each grade level.
Interventions
Fair
Assessments •They can be defined as roads or
pathways that students travel as
they progress toward mastery of
the skills needed for career and
college readiness.
Materials &
Resources
Curriculum
Framework
• Each road follows a route
composed of a collection of
Instruction building blocks that are defined
by the content standards for a
subject.
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13. The purpose of
interventions is to
Clear
Standards
Interventions Fair
Assessments
ensure students are
provided with the
standards-based
Materials &
supports they need to
Resources Curriculum
Framework meet/exceed grade
Instruction level standards.
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14. Coming Soon
The Circles are Changing!
As SAS has been evolving and
growing over time, feedback has
indicated that while both the
Clear
Standards instruction and intervention elements
Interventions are valuable assets, separating them
and Fair into two distinct SAS elements is
Assessments
Instruction counterintuitive in terms of delivery
of instruction; thus, the merging of
these two creates the opportunity to
create a key element missing from the
Materials & current design: School Safety and
Curriculum
Resources
Framework Culture. This element will be
School developed and will include critical
Instruction
Safety and elements such as school climate
Culture standards, issues of bullying, and
materials and resources to support
safe schools.
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15. Other Features
 RSS Feed-RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication
 Retrieves the latest content from websites you are interested in
 Notifies you of changes or updated content
 Users who subscribe to the RSS Feed will receive an email
notifying them of updates
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16. • Informational Items
– Provides statistics about SAS usage.
• Teacher Tools
– Allows registered users access to compile a personal portfolio of
resources, create standards based assessments, and to share
those resources with other through a website. Also, the PD
Center provides a platform to allow teachers across Pennsylvania
to take online Professional Development to meet Act 48
requirements for certification.
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17. For Help…
• Click on Help in the upper right-hand corner of any page
in the portal
The SAS Portal Help Desk website contains:
• Help Desk Information and Hours
• System Requirements
• FAQs
• Training Materials
• About SAS
• Glossary of terms
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