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Update April 2013

Update April 2013. Why is North Carolina developing Home Base?. The central focus of READY is improving every student’s learning ... . …and enabling and ensuring great teaching is how we get there.

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Update April 2013

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  1. Update April 2013

  2. Why is North Carolina developing Home Base? The central focus of READY is improving every student’s learning ... …and enabling and ensuring great teaching is how we get there. One of the ways to enable great teaching is to put powerful tools in the hands of teachers and school leaders.

  3. What is Home Base and what will it do? Home Base is an online tool for teaching and learning. • InformationThe Home Base student information system will replace NC WISE. • The system will allow educators to collect key data and manage student information in a secure, useful way. • Among other things, Home Base will be used for: • Attendance • Scheduling • Grading • Transcripts • Parent and Student Portals Instruction The Home Base instructional improvement system will have a suite of standards-aligned tools to enable great teaching. Every user will have one password to enter only one time to access resources and tools. Instructional design, practice & resources including a Learning Management System Assessment Data Analysis and Reporting Home Base will have two key functions: Educator Effectiveness Evaluation and Professional Development Instructional Informational Different users will have different types of access. For example: Teachers can search for great lesson plans then create classroom assessments, crunch the resulting data to adjust instruction and communicate progress to parents– all in Home Base. Principals can monitor ongoing benchmark assessment data, compare it to mid-year observation ratings and then access professional development to address staff needs – all in Home Base think: a simpler, better information system to replace NC WISE think: a newstandards-aligned tool for instruction, assessment, data analysis and professional development

  4. Functional Categories – The BasicsHome Base tools are designed to help you manage information and improve instruction. Information Instruction In the novel, what motivated Sarah’s behavior? Support your claim with evidence from the text. Educator Effectiveness: Evaluation and Professional Development Student Information and Learner Profile Data Analysis and Reporting Instructional Design, Practice & Resources Assessment • Major Functions • Develop aligned assessments for formative, interim or summative purposes • Deliver assessments • Highlights • Major Functions • Find high-quality resources based on standards or search criteria • Contribute to a shared repository of North Carolina-made resources • Highlights • Major Functions • Compile and analyze data • Share progress with studentsand colleagues • Analyze data to take informed action • Highlights • Integrate with assessment tools and student information to deliver data on student progress to teachers, parents and students in an easy-to-understand, actionable way • Easy access to your data and a direct, fast way to pull it • Major Functions • Record and organize NC Educator Evaluation System observation and evaluation data (replacing the current online tool) • Select resources aligned to meet professional development needs • Highlights • Professional Development resources aligned to the North Carolina Educator Evaluation Rubric • Major Functions • Attendance • Scheduling • Grading • Transcripts • Parent, Student and Educator Portals • Highlights • Portalsso students, parents and educators can access information • Data validation tools to make managing student information easier and improve data quality • Security to make sure only the right people can access data Classroom & Interim A rich bank of items to build your own rigorous, standards-aligned assessments Tools for Teaching Vettedand standards-aligned resources Summative Learning Management System Delivery of summative assessments online including computer adaptive testing Built to help educators teach, organize, communicate and collaborate online with their students

  5. Information Instruction Educator Effectiveness: Evaluation and Professional Development Student Information and Learner Profile Data Analysis and Reporting Instructional Design, Practice & Resources Assessment Integrated Instructional Solution a newstandards-aligned tool for instruction (e.g. lesson plans, unit plans), assessment and data analysis Information a simpler, better information system to replace NC WISE Effectiveness a simpler, better online evaluation system and new professional development system Truenorthlogic Evaluation and PD Schoolnet Instructional Tools and Assessment Test Nav SummativeAssessment OpenClass Collaboration PowerSchool Student Information

  6. R = Required Products being integrated to create Home Base R PowerSchoolStudentInformation NC Cloud Identity andAccessManagement UserPortal via PowerSchool R Core Instructional Improvement System Test Nav SummativeAssessment OpenClass Collaboration Schoolnet Instructional Toolsand Assessment R Truenorthlogic Educator Evaluation Content in SystemTools for Teaching • Assessment Creation Truenorthlogic Professional Development • Initial Content • Math, ELA, Science and Social Studies Assessment Items for Benchmarking and Classroom Assessment • Instructional Content (e.g. lesson plans and unit plans) housed in the NC Learning Object Repository

  7. R = Required Products being integrated to create Home Base R PowerSchoolStudentInformation R Core Instructional Improvement System • The required functionalities of Home Base provided for districts free of charge Test Nav SummativeAssessment OpenClass Collaboration Schoolnet Instructional Toolsand Assessment R Truenorthlogic Educator Evaluation Content in SystemTools for Teaching • Assessment Creation Truenorthlogic Professional Development • Initial Content • Math, ELA, Science and Social Studies Assessment Items for Benchmarking and Classroom Assessment • Instructional Content housed in the NC Learning Object Repository

  8. R = Required Products being integrated to create Home Base • Instructional Improvement Tools are optional • We believe districts will find value in these tools to improve instruction • Districts will have the 2013-14 school year to use all of Home Base cost-free R PowerSchoolStudentInformation R Core Instructional Improvement System Test Nav SummativeAssessment OpenClass Collaboration Schoolnet Instructional Toolsand Assessment R Truenorthlogic Educator Evaluation Content in SystemTools for Teaching • Assessment Creation Truenorthlogic Professional Development • Initial Content • Math, ELA, Science and Social Studies Assessment Items for Benchmarking and Classroom Assessment • Instructional Content (e.g. lesson plans and unit plans) housed in the NC Learning Object Repository

  9. How will Home Base be rolled out? • Home Base will be available to districts without costs for the 2013-14 school year. • Home Base will be phased in with many key functions available at the beginning of the 2013-14 school year. • 2013-14 year will be a kick-off year; we expect it to take districts time to learn and apply the resources in Home Base.

  10. During the 2013-2014 kick-off year, districts will be able to use the optional functions of Home Base at their own discretion. By March of 2014, districts will be able to choose to cost-share for the optional tools in Home Base in 2014-15 at $4 per student.

  11. R = Required Products being integrated to create Home Base R PowerSchoolStudentInformation R Core Instructional Improvement System Required Tools will always be Free of Charge Test Nav SummativeAssessment OpenClass Collaboration Schoolnet Instructional Toolsand Assessment R Truenorthlogic Educator Evaluation Content in SystemTools for Teaching • Assessment Creation Truenorthlogic Professional Development • Initial Content • Math, ELA, Science and Social Studies Assessment Items for Benchmarking and Classroom Assessment • Instructional Content housed in the NC Learning Object Repository

  12. R = Required Products being integrated to create Home Base R Optional Tools will be free in 2013-14 and will require a $4 per student cost share in 2014-15. PowerSchoolStudentInformation R Core Instructional Improvement System Test Nav SummativeAssessment OpenClass Collaboration Schoolnet Instructional Toolsand Assessment R Truenorthlogic Educator Evaluation Content in SystemTools for Teaching • Assessment Creation Truenorthlogic Professional Development • Initial Content • Math, ELA, Science and Social Studies Assessment Items for Benchmarking and Classroom Assessment • Instructional Content (e.g. lesson plans and unit plans) housed in the NC Learning Object Repository

  13. Why this approach? • Offers time to work with Home Base and plan to use its functionality to improve student outcomes • Offers time to consider how Home Base might save districts money

  14. Time Line July/August 2013 R R Schoolnet Instructional Toolsand Assessment PowerSchoolStudentInformation Truenorthlogic Educator Evaluation Content in SystemTools for Teaching • Assessment Creation • Online Evaluation (Teachers Only) • Instructional Tools • Classroom and Benchmark Assessments • Reporting • Student Information • Scheduling • Gradebook • Attendance • Transcripts • Initial Content • NWEA Science and Social Studies Assessment Items [9,600 items] • ClassScape Items in EOG and EOC tested subjects (Math, ELA, Science) [22,000 items] • Pearson Science and Social Studies Digital Library [~10,000 resources] • Open Educational Resources from NC Learning Object Repository [4,000 and counting} • Students • Parents • Teachers • Administrators • State Admin • Content Specialist UserPortal via PowerSchool

  15. Time Line October 2013 OpenClass Collaboration Truenorthlogic Educator Evaluation + Content in SystemTools for Teaching • Assessment Creation • Next Generation K-12 Common Core ELA and Math Items [starting in October and phased-in] • Online Evaluation (Principals and Teachers) • Collaboration

  16. Time Line March 2014 Truenorthlogic Professional Development + 2014-2015 School Year R Test Nav SummativeAssessment

  17. Time Line July/August 2013 R R Schoolnet Instructional Toolsand Assessment PowerSchoolStudentInformation Truenorthlogic Educator Evaluation Content in SystemTools for Teaching • Assessment Creation Teacher only October 2013 OpenClass Collaboration Truenorthlogic Educator Evaluation + Principals March 2014 2014-2015 R Truenorthlogic Professional Development Test Nav SummativeAssessment

  18. Training and Support • Information: PowerSchool Training • 32 events completed through April 12th • 584 People, 253 Districts/Charter Schools • Classroom Instruction and Assessment: Schoolnet Training • Training for districts this summer (June 20 – July 2, 2013) • Ongoing technical training and support webinars starting in July/August. • Certification training for districts that opt-in spring of 2014 • Planning in development for technical support, logistics and implementation support • Start Learning Now! • PowerSource is available to you at https://powersource.pearsonschoolsystems.com/home/main.action • Online learning modules and videos that will help educators learn to use the tools in Home Base. • Request your log-in (ask your LEA PowerSchool contact lead or your NC WISE Coordinator)

  19. Training and Support • Educator Effectiveness: Truenorthlogic Evaluation Training • Educator Effectiveness Training for the Teacher Evaluation that will take place from June 20 - July 2 • Ongoing Technical Training and Support Webinars starting in July/August • Principal Evaluation Training in September 2013 and Professional Development Tool Training in February 2014

  20. Minimum Technical Requirements Home Base North Carolina’s Instructional Improvement (IIS) and Student Information System (SIS) Minimum End-User Technical Requirements The Minimum Technical Specifications document will be updated as needed. Please visit the link below to find the most current version of this document. http://www.ncpublicschools.org/homebase/getting-ready

  21. Home Base Website and Updates • Home Base website is http://www.ncpublicschools.org/homebase/ • To sign up for Home Base Biweekly Newsletter, please email home_base_ready@dpi.nc.gov as ask to be placed on the newsletter listserv. • We will continue to email the biweekly updates, but you can also find them archived on the Home Base website at http://www.ncpublicschools.org/homebase/updates/

  22. Contact: Remedy homebase.incidents@its.nc.gov You can email your questions about Home Base (the system, implementation or training) Questions will be logged into Remedy for assistance Support personnel provide the answer, research or assign to the appropriate area for resolution Incidents are categorized for statistical reporting to aid in identifying problem areas as well as providing a knowledge base  If you have a question that is not about the system, implementation or training, you may contact the Home Base staff at home_base_ready@dpi.nc.gov

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