As you navigate around the SAS Home Page, you’ll notice several different features:

• SAS Logo: The SAS logo, located in the upper-left hand corner of the page, will take you to the Home Page.  Whenever you are in a different section of SAS and want to navigate back to the Home Page, just click on the SAS logo in the upper-left corner.
  
  
• SAS Featured Content:  The Pennsylvania Teacher of the Year Program recognizes excellence in teaching by honoring K-12 teachers in public education who have made outstanding academic contributions to Pennsylvania's school-aged children.
  
  
• SAS Portal Site Updates: The SAS Portal Site Updates is a RSS feed that is located in the lower right of the homepage.  The RSS feed provides notification of any changes to the SAS, the standards, current trainings, committee work requests, upcoming events, etc.  RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication.  Users can subscribe to the RSS feed that will automatically send an email notification as new information is posted on the SAS Portal. The Subscribe to RSS link, which is located to the bottom right below the SAS Portal Site Updates, allows users to subscribe.
  
  
• Site Registration: Registering for a SAS Account provides educators with access to a specialized group of tools for teachers within the portal.

• Footer Menu: The Footer Menu is the black area that runs along the bottom of the page:
  
  
• Help: The SAS Portal Help Desk link provides technical support for SAS users. 
• About SAS:  Information contained at this site include PreK-3 information, and related SAS materials, resources and templates
• Contact Us:  Contact the Help Desk via email or phone if a problem is encountered, to provide a suggestion for improvement or to report bad links.
• FAQs:  Frequently asked questions for each of the elements.