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.

One of the ways to enable great teaching is to put powerful tools in the hands of teachers and school leaders.

What is Home Base and what will it do?

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

InstructionThe 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.

Home Base will have two key functions:

think: a simpler, better information system to replace NC WISE

Informational

think: a new standards-aligned tool for instruction, assessment, data analysis and professional development

Instructional

Home Base is an online tool for teaching and learning.

Educator EffectivenessEvaluation and Professional Development

Instructionaldesign, practice & resources including a Learning Management System

Assessment

Data Analysis and Reporting

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

Assessment

In the novel, what motivated Sarah’sbehavior? Support your claim with evidence from the text.

Functional Categories – The BasicsHome Base tools are designed to help you manage information and improve instruction.

Student Information and Learner

Profile

Educator Effectiveness:

Evaluation and Professional Development

Instructional Design, Practice

& Resources

Data Analysis and

Reporting

Information Instruction

Major Functions• Attendance• Scheduling• Grading• Transcripts• Parent, Student and

Educator Portals

HighlightsPortals so 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

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• Develop aligned

assessments for formative, interim or summative purposes

• Deliver assessments

Highlights

Major Functions• Compile and analyze

data• Share progress with

students and colleagues

• Analyze data to take informed action

HighlightsIntegrate 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

HighlightsProfessional Development resources aligned to the North Carolina Educator Evaluation Rubric

Learning Management System

Tools for Teaching

Built to help educators teach, organize, communicate and collaborate online with their students

Vetted and standards-aligned resources

Classroom & Interim

Summative

A rich bank of items to build your own rigorous, standards-aligned assessments

Delivery of summative assessments online including computer adaptive testing

AssessmentStudent

Information and Learner

Profile

Instructional Design, Practice

& Resources

Data Analysis and

Reporting

Information

a simpler, better information system to replace NC WISE

Integrated Instructional Solution

a new standards-aligned tool for instruction (e.g. lesson plans, unit plans),

assessment and data analysis

Effectiveness

a simpler, better online evaluation system and new professional development system

Information Instruction

Educator Effectiveness:

Evaluation and Professional Development

Test NavSummativeAssessment

OpenClassCollaboration

SchoolnetInstructional Tools andAssessment

PowerSchoolStudent Information

TruenorthlogicEvaluation and PD

Products being integrated to create Home Base



PowerSchoolStudentInformation

Core Instructional Improvement SystemTest NavSummativeAssessment

TruenorthlogicEducator Evaluation

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UserPortal

Content in SystemTools for Teaching • Assessment Creation

TruenorthlogicProfessionalDevelopment

via PowerSchool

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

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Benchmarking and Classroom Assessment• Instructional Content housed in the NC Learning Object

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• The required functionalities of Home Base provided for districts free of charge






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Benchmarking and Classroom Assessment

• Instructional Content (e.g. lesson plans and unit plans) housed in the NC Learning Object Repository

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


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.

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.







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Benchmarking and Classroom Assessment• Instructional Content housed in the NC Learning Object

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Required Tools will always be Free of Charge






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Benchmarking and Classroom Assessment• Instructional Content (e.g. lesson plans and unit plans) housed in

the NC Learning Object Repository

Optional Tools will be free in 2013-14 and will require a $4 per student cost share in 2014-15.


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

Time Line

July/August 2013


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UserPortal

via PowerSchool

• Students • Parents• Teachers• Administrators• State Admin• Content Specialist

• Student Information

• Scheduling• Gradebook• Attendance• Transcripts

• Instructional Tools

• Classroom and Benchmark Assessments

• Reporting

• Online Evaluation (Teachers Only)

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}

Time Line

October 2013

OpenClassCollaboration+ Truenorthlogic

Educator Evaluation

• Collaboration • Online Evaluation (Principals and Teachers)


• Next Generation K-12 Common Core ELA and Math Items [starting in October and phased-in]

Time Line

March 2014 TruenorthlogicProfessionalDevelopment


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Time Line

July/August 2013


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OpenClassCollaboration+


Principals

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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)

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

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



Home Base Website and Updates

• Home Base website is http://www.ncpublicschools.org/homebase/

• To sign up for Home Base Biweekly Newsletter, please email [email protected] 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/

http://www.ncpublicschools.org/homebase/

http://www.ncpublicschools.org/homebase/

mailto:[email protected]

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http://www.ncpublicschools.org/homebase/updates/



Contact: [email protected]

• 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 [email protected]

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