1. LEADERSHIP THROUGH A VISION FOR HIGH STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT
MA-PAL
LEADERSHIP THROUGH A VISION
FOR HIGH STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT

2. Assessment Fee Payment Beginning with the Program Year, candidates will be required to register and pay $500 to complete PAL.
Registration fees must be paid using a credit card – VISA, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover are accepted. A gift card for the accepted credit card types can also be used for fee payment.

3. The PAL registration fee is valid for two years from the time of initial fee payment and registration. Candidates have two years from their registration date to complete and submit work for all four PAL assessment tasks. After the two-year period, candidates’ accounts will be closed.

4. Candidates are eligible to revise and resubmit their assessment task work products for scoring if they do NOT achieve a score of proficient or better on any of the four PAL tasks. This also applies to candidates whose task submissions were returned as incomplete and not scorable. Candidates will have two years from the time they initially register for PAL to revise and resubmit their tasks, under the resubmission option.

5. If a task is scored below proficiency (or had been returned as incomplete), the candidate will be able to initiate a Retake action on the task in the ShowEvidence system and pay their Resubmission fee. Candidates will be charged $125 (for filing and scoring costs) per task for each resubmission completed before the end of their two-year initial registration period.

6. 1. The minimum threshold score (cut score) for each task of 2
1. The minimum threshold score (cut score) for each task of 2.1 (on a 4-point scale).
2. A Total passing score: for Program Year , of 2.5 (on a 4- point scale). For the Program Year, the Total passing score will shift to We will be shifting from the 2.5 passing score for program year to the 2.75 Total passing score beginning in The 2.5 total passing score is used in only, in order to support the first year of full implementation for PAL and support efforts made

7. Tasks Threshold score per task.
TOTAL 2.5
Beginning in Total score will be 2.75
A candidate’s overall task score is based on an average of the indicator scores for that task. A candidate’s total PAL score is based on an average of the four tasks’ overall scores.

8. Provided clarification about completing the tasks, in which candidates should:
clarify their role in describing and analyzing the work completed for each assessment task.
Blind the submission to remove identifying information
Adhere to the length requirements for the work products
Use feedback evidence, not just state a summary conclusion
Stressed basic guidelines for preparing artifacts and required documents, and writing a commentary about their leadership skills in performing the tasks

9. Taking the Lead: Assessing Leaders; Improving Schools
Establish criteria on conditions under which candidates’ work is automatically returned:
TASKS: 1 2 3 4
Work is not blinded x
Does not address an academic priority area
Does not include all supporting documents
Videos are not of the appropriate length and quality
Does not describe a working group and does not include family or community input
A strategy was not implemented
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10. Taking the Lead: Assessing Leaders; Improving Schools
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