AIM Pathways for Mississippi

If you miss a virtual session, please email your facilitator for a recording of the session and to discuss any material covered in the session in which you need additional support. If you miss an in-person session, you will not receive credit for Mississippi CEUs for this course. You can attend a different in-person session if you email your facilitator and receive approval.

While completing your work is a priority, we do understand that sometimes you cannot get to it. You will not receive your certificate from the RESA if you do not complete the course by the second in-person date. However, you can continue to work asynchronously in the course and complete it on your own. Your access to the course will expire on August 31, 2023. 

Upon completion of all sections of Pathways to Proficient Reading and taking the Post-Assessment (please do not take the post-assessment until you come to the final in-person training day), your certificate will populate in the learning management system. You can find your certificate by logging into the AIM Pathways course and clicking on "transcript." 

Yes. Upon successful completion of the asynchronous work and attending all virtual and in-person sessions, you are eligible for three hours of college credit through AIM's partner Arcadia University.

In order to qualify for graduate credits, participants must average 83% for their total grade.

• The Pathways to Proficient Reading and Pathways to Literacy Leadership grades are determined by participation in Post Knowledge Inventory, end-of-section quiz scores, and the virtual community of practice sessions provided during the course.

• AIM assigns a grade upon completion of the course according to the Arcadia Graduate Academic Policies.

• Registration for graduate credits through Arcadia must be complete one month prior to the end of the course. 
• Cost per graduate credits is $150 (Total Cost = $450)
• Graduate credits cannot be applied for after the course is complete.
• Please check with your school district or degree university for their policy on any reimbursement or transfer of credit grade requirement

Arcadia Graduate credit Registration

You can click here to be directed to the Mississippi RESA page for more information on your local RESA office. 

Technically, yes. However, the MDE would prefer that participants take the post-KI during their last in person session. The LMS will not block a participant from taking the post KI on their own when they complete the course. During the spring in-person session, the post KI will be given as an open book/notes assessment and participants may also use information learned at the in-person session on the post KI. 

If participants take the post-KI after the day’s presentation is complete, then they may be dismissed after they complete the assessment.  Participants who have already completed the post assessment may leave once other participants begin to finish. **It is up to the AIM trainer as to what participants who have completed the post assessment work on while others are taking the assessment, but they should have a plan for those participants. 

Participants will not retake the post-KI.  AIM uses the pre and post-KI data to measure a participant's growth in the science of reading. AIM will deliver data to the MDE about the effectiveness the PPR course through pre and post KI measures. Participants should take the post-KI seriously. Course grades are calculated by averaging all end-of-section quizzes, but growth in the SoR can ONLY be measured by comparing the pre and post-KIs!  

Participants must make a course grade of 60% or higher to receive a certificate of completion for the course. They must receive a certificate of completion to apply for CEUs/SEMIs/OSLs.   

*If participants are allowed to retake a course section quiz to obtain a passing grade, then they must first remediate the sections that they did not pass before retaking the quiz. 

Participants will not be allowed to change cohorts in-person dates due to testing schedules. In-person session dates were clearly communicated when participants registered for the course and location facility arrangements are based on numbers registered. Participants who do not attend their scheduled in-person sessions will not be able to apply for CEUs/SEMIs/OSLs. 

The post-KI may be taken outside of the spring in-person session.  She must score 60% or higher to obtain her certificate of completion for the asynchronous course work.  However, she will not be able to collect her CEUs if she is unable to attend the spring in-person session.  

The average learner won't take more than 40-60 minutes to take the post-KI. It is an open book and open notes assessment. The test MUST be taken in one sitting so participants cannot log off and come back to it at a later time.  

*If a participant is truly concerned with the amount of time they will have, then they may be allowed to take the post-KI on their own after the last in-person session.  The course will not be complete until the post-KI is taken. This will NOT be advertised or communicated until the day of the in-person session. We do not want to cause any undue stress with a time limit for the post-KI.  

You can click here to be directed to the Mississippi RESA page for more information on your local RESA office.

You must contact your RESA representative. There is a disclaimer on your RESA sign-up page with a disclaimer (see image). If your RESA rep approves your dropping the course, you must have them contact implementation@aimpa.org to dismiss you.