The Pennsylvania Inspired Leadership Initiative will provide a statewide, standards-based leadership development and support system for school leaders at all levels through a delivery system that is cohort-based and embraces the regional collaboration of the intermediate units and their partners.
Value-added analysis is a statistical method used to measure the influence of a district and school on the academic progress rates of individual students and groups of students from year-to-year. Recognizing the many benefits of measuring students' individual academic progress from year-to-year and wanting to provide schools with a tool to measure student progress, the Pennsylvania State Board of Education passed a resolution in 2002 to adopt a value-added approach across the Commonwealth. This approach is called the Pennsylvania Value-Added Assessment System (PVAAS).
