The Pennsylvania Standards Aligned System (SAS) is a collaborative product of research and good practice that identifies six distinct elements which, if utilized together, will provide schools and districts a common framework for continuous school and district enhancement and improvement. Much research has been conducted as to what makes a great school. There are many intangible components; however, research supports the notion that great schools and school systems tend to have six common elements that ensure Student Achievement: Clear Standards, Fair Assessments, Curriculum Framework, Instruction, Materials & Resources, and Interventions.

Click the link bellow to take you to the SAS site! It is a great resource for any educator! Click through all of the tabs to see wverything that the website has to offer!

Standards Aligned System

Bellow are two files that I have created with help from SAS:

The first is a lesson plan that I evaluated:



The second is my own lesson that I created using the SAS template: