Standards+Aligned+System+(SAS)

[|Standards Aligned System (SAS)], as described in their website, is "designed to link Pennsylvania’s Academic Standards, anchors, eligible content, big ideas, essential questions, instruction, interventions, instructional materials, assessment, and professional development together into a logical and aesthetically coherent curriculum framework." It is based on research that specifies what makes a great school. The Pennsylvania Department of Education believes that great schools share the following ideas: SAS is designed with those six ideas in mind.
 * 1) Clear Standards
 * 2) Fair Assessment
 * 3) Curriculum Frameworks
 * 4) Instructions
 * 5) Materials and Resources
 * 6) Interventions



- Below is a link to a lesson plan created by Amanda Benz, Stephanie Parisi and Meghan Lynch using the Standards Aligned System lesson plan template. It is designed for a 1st grade writing assignment and explores the usage of adjectives, known as "describing words" in the students daily writing using a friendly comparison to a Showing Hand, which ultimately is a finger that uses each of our five senses to describe an object.

Lesson Plan Link: [|The Showing Hand]

- Below is an example of an empty hand that one may use as the template for "The Showing Hand" which would serve as the graphic organizer for the lesson plan:



- Below is a link to an evaluated lesson plan using the Standards Aligned System criteria. The original lesson plan, [|Learning Fractions with M&M's] was found online. It is a 2nd grade math lesson that focuses on how to understand fractions by using M&M's. The breakdown of the evaluation of the lesson plan is shown in the document below, however it did not score very strongly.

Lesson Plan Review: