Standard+Aligned+System+(SAS)

The Standard Aligned System (SAS) is used in Pennsylvania to promote school enhancement and growth for all the schools found within the state. SAS contains six common elements that have been found to guarantee school success and student accomplishment. These six elements are clear standards, fair assessments, curriculum framework, instruction, interventions, and materials and resources. **Clear standards** refer to the academic standards that the state of Pennsylvania sets for students at each grade level that list and describe what information students at that grade level are expected to know and to be able to apply in order to further their learning. **Fair assessments** include the use of summative, formative, diagnostic, and benchmark assessments. **Curriculum framework** is broken down into standards, anchors, big ideas, concepts, competencies, essential questions, academic vocabulary, and exemplars. **Instruction** consists of content that is aligned with the state standards, content that is adequately challenging for the students, teaching instruction that is derived from each of the students' learning needs, and applying instructional strategies that build upon one another. **Materials and resources** provide those materials and resources that are aligned with the Pennsylvania state standards through the use of the Voluntary Model Curriculum (VMC). **Interventions** are used to guarantee that students are given the supports that they need in order to fulfill or to excel beyond the grade level standards as soon as possible.

Below is a link to the SAS website.

[|Standards Aligned System (SAS)]

Here is a completed lesson plan that I have evaluated according to SAS.

[|Moira Parkinson-Lesson Plan Review.docx]

To view a completed lesson plan that follows SAS requirements, click on the link below.