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Audience: District Leaders, School Leaders
Self-reflection by educators is integral for personal growth, and goal setting (as part of the LEA-selected Measure) is a critical component of an educator's Act 13 evaluation. In this webinar, hosted in collaboration with Amy Lena, Director of the Bureau of School Support, we'll reveal the newly revised Teacher Self-Reflection Guides as resources to guide teachers through the process of using available data to reflect on their past practices and student outcomes to create goals for the year ahead. For either the data-available or non-data-available professional educator, you will leave this session with a process to support the gathering and reflection of data with your teachers.
- Thurs, Sept 7 @ 11:00am-12:00pm
- Tues, Sept 26 @ 12:00-1:00pm
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Meeting ID: 224 532 637 16
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Audience: District Leaders, School Leaders, K-12 Content Leaders, Teacher Leaders, Teachers, School Counselors
Educators make hundreds of decisions daily, ranging from instructional planning to program evaluation. The Pennsylvania Value-Added Assessment System (PVAAS) is an analysis and reporting tool designed to give you the data you need to make decisions for your students, school, and LEA/district. When used in concert with other local information, educators can use data in PVAAS to be proactive, making sound instructional & programmatic choices at the student, school, and LEA-levels, to ensure that every student has the best chance to succeed. Join us in this awareness session to learn more about the PVAAS analysis tool and the data available to help inform your decision-making today. Opportunities for questions and discussion will occur throughout the session.
- Tues, Sept 12 @ 1:00-2:00pm
- Wed, Oct 4 @ 9:00-10:00am
Register for What is PVAAS? Building Your Foundational Understanding webinar
Audience: District Leaders, School Leaders (grades 6-12), K-12 Content Leaders, School Counselors
Ensuring all students have access to all five graduation pathways as they enter and continue through their middle and high school years is important to your work as an educator. These individual student decisions about course sequences and selections, supports, and resources are best made when informed by multiple sources of information. PVAAS student level projection data can serve as one of those key sources. In this session, participants will explore ways of using the PVAAS data to proactively plan for appropriate pathways for students. Discussions will include ways data can be used to best identify students in grades 6 and higher who would benefit from potential courses and supports to ensure access to all pathways for all students. Opportunities for questions and discussion will occur throughout the session.
- Wed, Sept 13 @ 9:00-10:00am
- Thurs, Oct 5 @ 1:00-2:00pm
Register for Clearing the Path: Using PVAAS to Proactively Inform PA's Graduation Pathways webinar
Audience: District Leaders, School Leaders, K-12 Content Leaders
Someone said it. Could it be true? Whether it's statements like "Students never show good growth in math" or "No one in our region is doing well in ELA," it's likely that you've heard these statements presented as fact at some point during an improvement conversation. In this session we will explore ways to utilize available data to check those statements for accuracy so that your data team meetings and improvement efforts run on just the facts. We'll address ways to respond "in the moment" when you hear such statements and explore data sources that will help you and your team to confirm or challenge those assumptions, making way for focused data conversations! Opportunities for questions and discussion will occur throughout the session.
- Tues, Sept 19 @ 9:00-10:00am
- Thurs, Oct 12 @ 1:00-2:00pm
Register for Checking (and Correcting) Assumptions with Data webinar
Audience: District Leaders, School Leaders
Are you and your staff ready and prepared to make the best use of the PVAAS data when released this fall? This includes using the PVAAS student-level projection data, and the PVAAS growth data (at district, school, and teacher levels) to make informed decisions about goals, resource allocation, tiered supports, and much more. Join this session to learn about several key steps to ensure you have access to the data, know new features, and have an action plan in place for you and your staff to hit the ground running when new data is released this fall. Opportunities for questions and discussion will occur throughout the session.
- Wed, Sept 27 @ 1:00-1:45pm
- Tues, Oct 10 @ 9:00-9:45am
Register for Ready for Results? Prepare Staff for Putting Your PVAAS Data to Work webinar
Audience: District Leaders, School Leaders, K12 Content Leaders
There are several PDE data tools and resource sites designed to support educators and leaders in their work. Do you find yourself asking why you need each of these tools, or what one of these tools can be used for? Join this session to learn more about 6 key tools available to all public schools and LEAs. Learn how they can be used together to support a continuous improvement process in schools. Hear about what questions these tools are designed to address, as well as when and why to use each tool. Time will be spent discussing PA Future Ready Index, PA Value-Added Assessment System (PVAAS), Data Interaction (eMetric), the PDE SAS Portal, the Evidence Resource Center, and the Classroom Diagnostic Tool (CDT). Participants will walk away with a deeper understanding of how they can use each of these tools in their own work and in their own school. Opportunities for questions and discussion will occur throughout the session.
- Thurs, Sept 28 @ 9:00-10:00am
- Wed, Oct 18 @ 1:00-2:00pm
Register for Not All Tools Are Created Equal: Using Different Tools for Different Purposes webinar
Audience: District Leaders, School Leaders, K-12 Content Leaders, Teacher Leaders
Join us and explore the newly designed PVAAS Student Reports! You can access a range of student level information one tile at a time. PVAAS has a "digital backpack" of a range of data for your individual students to use for a range of purposes! Maybe you want to know: How has my student performed over school years and across subjects? How is my student likely to perform on upcoming assessments? This newly designed student reporting can support your work with PA's Graduation Pathways, student support needs, and family-student-teacher conferencing. Interact with the new student tiles to understand how data can help support students' individual needs! Bring your PVAAS username and password. If you do not have student level access, we will have options for you to explore this new reporting.
- Tues, Oct 24 @ 2:00-3:00pm
- Mon, Oct 30 @ 11:30am-12:30pm
- Thurs, Nov 2 @ 10:30-11:30am
- Mon, Nov 20 @ 3:00-4:00pm
Register for A Longitudinal Digital Backpack About Your Students! PVAAS NEW Student Reporting webinar
Audience: District Leaders, School Leaders, K-12 Content Leaders, Teacher Leaders
You administered benchmark assessments in Math and/or ELA. You viewed the data in your local assessment system. This locally administered assessment data in PVAAS also includes K-3. Now, what's next? This session will focus on growth reporting and student level data in PVAAS from your K-3 local assessments and discuss how you can engage your K-3 teams in discussions about PVAAS K-3 data, in conjunction with your local assessment system, to evaluate and plan for student learning. Opportunities for questions and discussion will occur throughout the session.
- Tues, Nov 14 @ 1:00-2:00pm
- Wed, Nov 29 @ 9:00-10:00am
Register for Let's Get Your Teachers Talking about PVAAS Growth in K-3 webinar
Audience: District Leaders, School Leaders, K-12 Content Leaders, Teacher Leaders
With growth measures available in PVAAS based on the Classroom Diagnostic Tools (CDT), you may find yourself asking questions about the new reporting and want to better understand how to use them in your school/district/LEA. Join this session to learn more about the purpose of each of the growth measures – those based on state assessments (PSSA and Keystones) and those based on the CDT. Discussions will focus on why there may not be an expectation of alignment in these measures, and what questions this may raise for your school/district/LEA team regarding alignment and use of the measures. Opportunities for questions will occur throughout the session.
- Wed, Nov 15 @ 9:00-10:00am
- Tues, Nov 28 @ 1:00-2:00pm
Register for Adding Value to CDT Growth Measures in PVAAS: What Do the Multiple Growth Measures Mean? webinar