IU1 LEA Administrators
October 24, 2013

Staff Time – Teachers and Administrators
• Accurate and complete data into PIMS WILL save time for your teachers who are eligible for a PVAAS score
• Accurate and complete data into PIMS WILL save time for your principals and district admin who will support the teachers who are eligible for a PVAAS score
• Approximately 30-40% of your teaching staff will be eligible for a PVAAS teacher specific score
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• Estimates the effect of a teacher’s performance on the academic growth of a group of students.
• Taking into account both their endpoint and their entering achievement level.
• By concentrating on growth, PVAAS puts the emphasis on what educators can influence.
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A PA certified educator with full or partial responsibility for content specific instruction of the assessed eligible content as measured by a
PA state assessment
Online Instruction
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Face to Face

PVAAS Teacher Reporting:
Teachers in Which Tested Grades/Subjects/Courses?
• PSSA: With/Without Accommodations (Not PASA)
• Grades 4-8: Reading and Math
• Grades 4 & 8: Science
• Grades 5 & 8: Writing
• Future: Transition into ELA Assessment
• Courses Culminating in Keystone Exams: With/Without
Accommodations
• Algebra I
• Literature
• Biology
Approximately 30-40% of your teaching staff will be eligible for a PVAAS teacher specific score
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• Responsibility to plan the instruction of the assessed eligible content , provide the instruction of the assessed eligible content, and use the assessment information to evaluate the effectiveness of the instruction of the assessed eligible content on a PA state assessment.
• Defined on the Framework for Teaching by both
Domains 1 and 3 :
• Content specific instruction is a determination made locally by the LEA.
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Are special education teachers, intervention specialists, reading/math specialists, ESL teachers, and gifted teachers eligible for a PVAAS score?
• Yes, if the teacher is responsible for Domains 1
& 3.
• There may be more than one teacher planning, instructing, and assessing the students (i.e., co-teaching, team teaching).
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Are instructional coaches eligible for a PVAAS score?
• If the role of the instructional coach is only to provide support and consultation to PA certified educator(s)/adults this does not meet the criteria for PVAAS teacher-specific reporting.
• PVAAS teacher-specific reporting is provided to those who provide content specific instruction to the students. (Framework for
Teaching, Domains 1 and 3)
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Provide PVAAS teacher specific reporting based on an accurate representation of a teacher’s responsibility and influence on the academic growth of students.
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• Make sure the right teachers are linked to the right students for the right proportion of instructional responsibility for the right tested grade/subject/course to yield PVAAS Teacher
Reporting.
Teacher
Student
Proportion of
Instructional
Responsibility
Course &
Grade/Subject
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Teachers, school administrators and district administrators verifying data that is used to yield PVAAS teacher specific reporting– data that will ultimately be used as part of a teacher’s evaluation.
The PVAAS rosters are prepopulated from the
PIMS Course/HQT submitted by LEAs to
PIMS (Student, Staff,
Course Templates)
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• April 28 – June 6
Verification Windows: Open and Close Dates
LEA Pre-Step/Setup Window: 1 week
Teacher Window: 2 weeks
School Admin Window: 2 weeks
District Admin Window: 1 week
Hard Deadlines
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% Instructional Responsibility
% Student +
Teacher
Enrollment
Full or
Partial % of
Instruction
• This % is your total Instructional Responsibility for a student.
• This % reflects how much the student will be weighted in the PVAAS analyses.
• The % Instructional Responsibility is calculated by multiplying the (% Student + Teacher Enrollment) by
(Full or Partial % of Instruction).
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3 New
Terms
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IS …
• The % of a grade/subject/course that a student and teacher are concurrently enrolled
• Total Days Possible: Day 1 through last school day before LEA’s state testing window opens for that grade/subject/course
IS NOT…
• Attendance % Student +
Teacher
Enrollment
See PVAAS Pilot FAQ 6.4 for additional details on calculation
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% Student +
Teacher
Enrollment
Day 1
Grade/Subject/Course
Day 140
Last Day Before
Testing Window
Student Enrolled
Teacher Enrolled
What proportion of the grade/subject/course are the student and teacher concurrently enrolled?
See PVAAS Pilot FAQ 6.4 for additional details on calculation
% Student + Teacher
Enrollment = Concurrent
Enrollment
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Full or Partial % of Instruction
Are you the only PA certified educator responsible for the contentspecific instruction (Domains 1 and 3) of the assessed eligible content in the grade/subject/course?
YES NO
Full % of
Instruction = 100%
Partial % of Instruction = <100%
Proportion of responsibility for the content-specific instruction of the assessed eligible content in the grade/subject/course
(Domains 1 and 3)
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From your LEA into PIMS
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• Data in PVAAS roster system reflects data submitted into PIMS from your LEA.
• SY13-14 Roster Verification:
• VERIFICATION PROCESS for teachers and administrators as info will come from PIMS
• Should NOT be major editing, adding, removing if PIMS data is complete and accurate
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PVAAS Teacher
Specific
Reporting
• PVAAS Teacher Specific Reporting
• PVAAS Roster Verification
PIMS and PVAAS • Changes to PIMS to Align with
Educator Effectiveness
Next Steps for
SY13-14
Implementation
• LEA Student Information System
• Professional Development
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• Expanded Use of PIMS Data
• PIMS Course/HQT data are used for:
• Federal Reporting/Accountability
• State Reporting/Accountability
• Educator Effectiveness
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• PIMS Course/HQT data are used to support
• Educator Effectiveness (PVAAS)
• School Performance Profiles
• Federal reports
• The PIMS Course/HQT collection has become high stakes.
It is critical that PIMS data are accurate and timely.
• All core-content courses must be submitted
• All teachers and students enrolled in each course section must be accounted
• Courses must be mapped accurately to State course codes
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EW FOR
CHOOL
EAR
Collection Cycle
• Collection Window
• LEA must submit data
• List of LEAs that fail to submit sent to PDE executive offices
• Correction Window
• No overrides necessary
• No overrides will be granted after Correction window closes
• LEAs that fail to submit data by end of this window will be non-compliant with State and Federal requirements
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• PIMS Course/HQT (Student-Staff-Course)
• NEW: All teachers linked to a student for a grade/subject/course
• Teacher data differ from HQT ( HQT is a different PIMS need)
• Report teachers REALLY having responsibility for planning the instruction, delivering the instruction, and assessing the effectiveness of the instruction( Domains 1 AND 3)
• Could include, at times, LTS (Long-term Substitutes)
• NEW: % of Instructional Responsibility (factors)
• NEW: Keystone Related Course Codes/Courses that
“trigger” a Keystone exam
• NEW: Departmentalized Elementary Courses
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• PIMS Course/HQT (Student-Staff-Courses)
• NEW: Substitutes are now to be submitted in limited cases
• NEW: Staff Emails (teachers and admin)
• NEW: PVAAS Account Roles
• NEW: Submission of non-core content courses is
NO longer required.
• New Use of PIMS data – School Performance
Profile
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• PIMS Changes – Start Planning Now
• SIS Alignment to PIMS SY13-14
• Managing a new process
• New concept of “% Instructional Responsibility”
• % Student + Teacher Enrollment
• % Instruction
• Co-teaching, team teaching, etc.
• Teachers in various roles:
• Regular Ed, Special Ed Teachers
• Reading/Math Specialists
• ELL Teachers
• Gifted Teachers
• Intervention Specialists
• Others
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• Communications to LEA Staff
• Professional Development and Support
• Who?
• When?
• District and School Admin Accounts
• Who “signs off” on rosters?
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• Complete and accurate data in PIMS this year will save your teachers and admin time
• Plan now for your teachers eligible for PVAAS Score
• Communications
• Professional Development
• Access resources and support
• pdepvaas@iu13.org
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