Technology Directors’ Meeting Region 8 February 7 th , 2013

1. Technology Directors’ Meeting Region 8 February 7th, 2013

5. Why Home Base? • Improve teacher effectivenessby providing tools that promote efficiency by connecting grade books, lessons, instructional resources, and assessments • Ensure daily parent access to student grades and assignments • Provide time saving toolsthat give ongoing data, results, and recommendations to teachers and students

6. Sign-On Lesson Plans Assessment Professional Development & Educator Evaluation Student Information and Learner Profile Standards & Curriculum Data Analysis and Reporting Instructional Design, Practice & Resources

16. Timeline Home Base - http://www.ncpublicschools.org/homebase/ Began transition to new SIS Preparing Content for Home Base IIS Vendor Approval & Contract Award September 2012  Fall 2012  December2012  Integration of the SIS and the IIS Pilots for IIS Components of Home Base Home Base goes Live* Early 2013  Mid - 2013  Starting 2013-14 School Year * Includes the Student Information, Curriculum, Instruction and Educator Evaluation components, with other components to follow.

17. Home Base – Student/Parent View

18. Home Base – Student View

19. Home Base – Teacher View

20. Home Base – Teacher View

21. Home Base – Teacher View

22. Home Base – Teacher View

23. Home Base – Teacher View Assessments • Search for assessment items/tasks • Create, administer, and score assessments at classroom, school, and district levels • Administer statewide assessments • Formative Assessment Strategies and Resources

24. Technology3 Key Categories Instruction Interconnections Things Application  Support Services  Infrastructure Digital Devices  Tools Ensuring pressing Enter helps students learn Making sure that pressing Enteralways works Something on which to press Enter

25. Technical Requirements • Home Base is expected to deliver all of its functionality through a web browser.  It is expected to run well on major HTML5-compatible browsers on the current release and past two releases and require no additional browser helpers or plugins for full accessibility and functionality. 

26. Technical Requirements (continued) • These browsers shall include but not be limited to the following list:  Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and Chrome.  In addition, the IIS is expected to run well on a wide variety of mainstream hardware platforms that use the aforementioned browser technologies. 

27. Technical Requirements (continued) • These hardware platforms shall include but not be limited to Microsoft Windows and Mac OS desktops, laptops and netbooks, Apple iOS devices, Chrome OS devices, Android devices, as well as other tablets, smart phones, and eReaders.  

28. Technical Requirements (continued) • Vendor solutions shall comply with the World Wide Web Consortium web development specifications (“W3C Recommendations”) and shall comply with Section 508 of the US Rehabilitation Act.

29. Objective Receive prospective user feedback on tools, content and interface User Group The Team: Bladen Co. Schools Catawba County School Charlotte-Mecklenburg Craven County Schools Currituck County Durham Public Schools Edenton-Chowan FBS Greene County Schools Harnett County Johnston County Schools Lee County Schools N. Hampton County Nash-Rocky Mount Schools Pender Co. Schools Polk County Schools Rowan-Salisbury Schools Sampson County Schools Wake County Schools Washington County Schools Wayne County Public Schools Wilson County Schools Winston-Salem Forsyth

30. Objective Receive prospective user feedback on tools, content and interface The Members Represent the Following Counties: • Cherokee County • Hoke County • Wake County • Iredell County • Sampson County • Durham County • Greene County • Char-Meck • The NCAE • Strategic Educational Alliances Stakeholder Group The Group Consists of: • NC PTA Director • HR Director • Assistant Superintendent • Instructional Technology Director • Director of Curriculum Development • NCAE Rep • Associate Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction • Associate Superintendent for Assessment • CFO

31. Resource Consortium Objective Solicit and gather content from LEAs and Schools The Members Represent the following School Districts and Schools: Alamance-Burlington Schools Asheboro City Schools Beaufort County Schools Burke County Schools Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Cleveland County Schools Cumberland County Schools Edenton-Chowan Forsyth County Schools Gaston County Schools Guilford County Halifax County Schools Hoke County Hyde County Jones County Schools Lee County Martin County Schools Montgomery County Schools Moore County Schools Mooresville Graded Schools Newton-Conover City Schools North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics Onslow County Schools Orange County Person County Schools Pitt County Schools Rutherford County Transylvania County Schools Union County Wake County Public Schools Wayne County Public Schools Whiteville City Schools Winston-Salem/Forsyth County ** New members from Summer Institutes, NCSBA and Tech. Directors’ meetings

32. Questions?

33. Today’s Presenter LaVerne Weldon, Learning Systems Consultant, IIS Project laverne.weldon@dpi.nc.gov 919-807-3266

34. Contact Sarah McManus,Director of Learning Systems 919-807-3668; sarah.mcmanus@dpi.nc.gov Vanessa Jeter, Director of Communications 919-807-3469, vanessa.jeter@dpi.nc.gov Cynthia Crowdus, IIS Project Coordinator 919-807-3205; cynthia.crowdus@dpi.nc.gov Linda Lowe, SIS Conversion Project Manager 919-807-3733; linda.lowe@dpi.nc.gov Rosalyn Galloway, SIS Conversion Project Lead/NC WISE Portfolio Manager 919-807-3261; rosalyn.galloway@dpi.nc.gov • You may also contact the Home Base staff at: home_base_ready@dpi.nc.gov