Syllabus

= = ="Continuous School Improvement Data Tools" =

= = This course is for Administrators and qualifies as a PA Inspired Leadership course/program. It will provide 1 credit and/or 30 hours. Participants must attend the required sessions and complete all assignments to receive credit/hours. This course/program is structured to develop skill with PDE Data Tools along with the individualized administrator action plans which incorporate the sharing of PDE tools and their application to schools and classrooms with administrator’s staff. Participants will develop an action plan for sharing the tools and develop presentation materials which will be shared with other participants and used for training at the participants’ home schools. In addition, participants will review others’ projects and provide written feedback.

Session 1 (Face to Face)
1. Introduction - Overview  Demonstration of components and procedures of the Wikispace. Post: Who you are, where you work, your knowledge of PDE Data Tools and resources. Reflection at the end of the day  Review why we are using the DataTools Wikispace 2. Pennsylvania ’s Standards-Aligned System Overview of the PDE Standards-Aligned System model and its component parts. PDE Website  Ed HUB – Standards-Aligned Systems interactive page 3. PDE Data Tools/Resources Overview of the Data Tools Available to Pennsylvania Districts Matrix Chart developed by PDE. **__ Focused Tools __** **__:__** **PA AYP** - Tool chart – review paragraph with content  Explore PA AYP website   Assignment – What 3 things do you feel other people need to know about this site? How will you use this site and the information it contains? Participants will post the responses on the wiki. **PSSA Data Interactive** – Tool chart – review paragraph with content  10 minute demo of the website. Explore the PSSA Data Interactive website  Assignment – What 3 things do you feel other people need to know about this site? How will you use this site and the information it contains? Participants will post the responses on the wiki. **PVAAS** – Tool chart – review paragraph with content  Do an overview of PVAAS, value-added, diagnostic, and projection reports. Explore PVAAS website  Assignment – What 3 things do you feel other people need to know about this site? How will you use this site and the information it contains? Participants will post the responses on the wiki. ** 4Sight Benchmarks ** – Tool chart – review paragraph with content  Overview of 4Sight Benchmark Assessments and the Member Center. Explore the Member Center and the reports and data it contains. Assignment – What 3 things do you feel other people need to know about this site? How will you use this site and the information it contains? Participants will post the responses on the wiki. For their job-embedded assignments, participants will complete activities posted in DataTools Wikispace to develop competence in the PDE Data Tools, develop a structured plan to share the PDE Data Tools with their staff, and prepare materials to share the PDE Tools with their staff.

Session 2. Online (independently)
Participants will post their action plans and training materials on the DataTools Wikispace site. Participants will review other participants’ action plans and resource materials and provide feedback using the Portfolio Checklist. All items posted will become the participants’ online portfolio.

Assessment:
For each tool, there will be the same sequence of activities and an assignment asking the participants to answer the following questions: What three things do you feel other people need to know about the tool site? How will you use the site and the information it contains? These responses will be printed and included in the Tools portfolio along with the final product which is a plan to share the PDE Data tools with the participant’s staff. Participants will create an action plan. They can prepare a PowerPoint or other presentation materials. The plans and materials will be posted and participants will review other projects and provide feedback and reflections, which will be posted. All content posted by the participant during the course/program will be included in the final portfolio.