1. PAIU C URRICULUM C OORDINATORS M EETING A PRIL 2015 PVAAS Update Kristen Lewald, Ed.D. PVAAS Statewide Director for PDE

2. Topics Transition of PA Assessment System Roster Verification PEERS PDE PVAAS Webpages Q & A

3. PVAAS and Transition of Assessment System TN Example: Changes in Assessment System Revised FAQ for PVAAS and Transition of PA Assessment System is in development

4. Spring 2015 Roster Verification Clarification about Grade 3  Communication  E-mail sent to District Admins, District Roster Verifiers, School Admins, and School Roster Verifiers.  Roster Verification FAQ updated and posted on PVAAS login page  SAS EVAAS will use grade 3 as part of teacher level analyses only  NO grade 3 reporting in PVAAS  However, teachers of Grade 3 Math or ELA do NOT need to complete roster verification for the purpose of PVAAS analyses or reporting!  LEAs may choose to have Grade 3 Teachers verify rosters (student+teacher+test) for the purposes of exporting the roster data and using it to help determine the “Student Performance on State Assessments” (% Proficient and Advanced).

5. Spring 2015 Roster Verification PIMS Staff Template  3/25/2015 was the last submission for the creation of PVAAS School User accounts in SY14-15  New accounts (from the 3/25 submission) available by 4/27/15  Accounts can always be created locally/manually  LEAs can download a file of “active accounts”

6. Gap Student Enrollment Data Gap Student Enrollment Submission Dates All students included on any LEA’s Voluntary Enrollment or Staff Student Subtest PIMS submission as of March 25, 2015 can be searched for/found within the PVAAS roster system and added to a roster. Gap Student Enrollment submissions in PIMS provide means for LEAs to add students to the system who were not included on a submission on or before March 25, 2015 (e.g., students new to PA public schools). Document in development that includes submission dates and instructions on searching/adding students to rosters. Will be placed on PVAAS login page for LEAs! Students submitted in PIMS by these dates Will be available in PVAAS by these dates March 31 April 27 April 7 April 14 May 14 April 21 April 28 May 5 May 28 May 12 May 19 June 11 May 26 June 2

7. Spring 2015 Roster Verification Help for a few LEAs with incomplete Staff-Student-Subtest submissions (used to prepopulate PVAAS rosters)  1:1 emails to these LEAs; IU will be cc’d  Building Rosters Manually how-to document about adding teachers, rosters, and students  Using Phases Effectively document, with suggestions for “gaining time” to work on rosters LEA Preview Phase, by School April 27- May 3, 2015 (1 week) Teacher Verification Phase May 4-17, 2015 (2 weeks) School Administrator Verification Phase May 18-31, 2015 (2 weeks) LEA Verification Phase June 1-14, 2015 (2 weeks)

8. Spring 2015 Roster Verification Supports Roster Verification FAQ Document  Commonly asked Roster Verification questions Virtual Office Hours - Q&A Sessions  Tuesday afternoons, 2:30 – 4:00 pm, April 28 – June 9  Thursday mornings, 7:30 – 9:00 am, April 30 – June 11  See “RV Training and Resources” document on the PVAAS login page for links to join! VLM  On the e-Learning page  Great tool for training teachers! Contact Us (top right of any PVAAS page)

9. 2015-16 PVAAS Professional Development Preview Preview SY2015-16 plans during webinar on April 29 Gathering feedback during and after session  How well will needs of your LEAs be met?  Suggestions? Not a Train-the-Trainer session – rather, a chance to share our preliminary plans and gather your feedback!

10. PEERS Export in PEERS– not yet available  Details for this feature are in development  It will likely not include all detailed data leading up to the final rating form (weighting of teacher specific, each score for teacher specific, etc.)  Expect that it will include all data on the final rating form

11. PDE Website Redesigned Two ways to find the PDE PVAAS webpages: You can keep using the shortened URL: http://education.state.pa.us/pvaas http://education.state.pa.us/pvaas You can go to “State Assessment System”. (Scroll down until you come to PVAAS & click the link!)