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Monday, October 27: School Improvement Plans Due in Regional Office Following the training, principals and their school teams should immediately begin writing their plans and must submit two hard copies to the regional offices for the regional review process by Monday, October 27th. The SIP planning materials will be posted on the Office of Improvement Planning (OIP) website, with links to the Pennsylvania Department of Education's website where additional materials may be accessed. OIP will coordinate with the District's Assessment Office regarding the PVAAS and eMetric reports (These reports are generated from PDE data tools) that must be submitted with the plan.

Monday, October 27-Monday, November 10: Regional Review Process Regional teams will have two and a half weeks to review their SIPs, discuss the plan's content with each school team, and recommend SIP changes to the schools. Principals must submit final versions to the Regional Superintendents, based on the Regional Superintendents schedule.

Wednesday, November 12 at 12:00: Schools Submit SIPs to Regional Office Once the schools make the recommended revisions, they will resubmit five hard copies of their final School Improvement Plan and one electronic copy of their plans to their Regions, as per Regional Schedule.

Wednesday, November 12/Thursday, November 13: Regional Offices Log in All SIPs Each regional office will log in all copies of SIP's received from each school.

Thursday, November 13: Regional Offices Ship SIPs to PDE and the Office of Accountability and Assessment Regions will maintain one hard copy of each SIP for their files. They will ship two hard copies of each SIP to PDE and will send the other 2 hard copies and a disk of the electronic copies to Cheryl Mason-Dorman in the Office of Accountability and Assessment.

Friday, November 14, SIPs Due to PDE All 2008-2009 School Improvement Plans (SIP) are due to the Pennsylvania Separtment Education (PDE).