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Why has North Carolina developed 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 we are enabling great teaching is by putting powerful tools in the hands of teachers and school leaders.

What is Home Base and what does it do?

Information

The Home Base student information system is PowerSchool.

The system allows educators to collect key data and manage student information in a secure, useful way.

Among other things,

the information component of Home Base is used for:

•Attendance•Scheduling•Grading•Transcripts•Parent and Student Portals

Instruction

The Home Base instructional improvement system includes a suite of standards-aligned tools to enable great teaching.

Every user has one password to enter only one time to access resources and tools.

Home Base has two key functions:

think:

a simpler, better information system

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 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

Highlights

Portals 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 classroom or benchmark purposes•Deliver assessments

Highlights

Major Functions•Compile and analyze data•Share progress with students and 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 •Select resources aligned to meet professional development needs

Highlights

Professional 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 & Benchmark

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

Ability to create your own items to use in your classroom and to submit up for other teachers to access and use for assessments

AssessmentStudent

Information and Learner

Profile

Instructional Design, Practice

& Resources

Data Analysis and Reporting

Information

a student information system

Instructional Tools & Resources

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

assessment, and data analysis

Effectiveness

an online evaluation system and professional development system

Information Instruction

Educator Effectiveness:

Evaluation and Professional Development

OpenClassCollaboration

SchoolnetInstructionandAssessment

PowerSchoolStudent Information

TruenorthlogicEvaluation and PD

An Integrated Suite of Technology Tools

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Products being integrated to create Home Base

OpenClassCollaboration

SchoolnetInstructional Tools andAssessment

PowerSchoolStudentInformation

Core Instructional Improvement System

TestNavSummativeAssessment

TruenorthlogicEducator Evaluation

UserPorta

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Content in SystemTools for Teaching • Assessment Creation

TruenorthlogicProfessionalDevelopment (LOCAL)

via PowerSchool

Initial Content•Math, ELA, Science and Social Studies Assessment Items for Benchmark or Classroom Assessments

•Instructional Content (e.g. lesson plans , videos, interactive activities)

TruenorthlogicProfessionalDevelopment (STATE)

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Products being integrated to create Home Base

OpenClassCollaboration

SchoolnetInstructional Tools andAssessment

PowerSchoolStudentInformation

Core Instructional Improvement System

TruenorthlogicEducator Evaluation

UserPorta

l

Content in SystemTools for Teaching • Assessment Creation

TruenorthlogicProfessionalDevelopment (LOCAL)

via PowerSchool

Initial Content•Math, ELA, Science and Social Studies Assessment Items for Benchmark or Classroom Assessments

•Instructional Content (e.g. lesson plans , videos, interactive activities)

TruenorthlogicProfessionalDevelopment (STATE)

FREE

FREE

FREE

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

Products being integrated to create Home Base

OpenClassCollaboration

SchoolnetInstructional Tools andAssessment

PowerSchoolStudentInformation

Core Instructional Improvement System

TruenorthlogicEducator Evaluation

UserPorta

l

Content in SystemTools for Teaching • Assessment Creation

TruenorthlogicProfessionalDevelopment (LOCAL)

via PowerSchool

Initial Content•Math, ELA, Science and Social Studies Assessment Items for Benchmark or Classroom Assessments

•Instructional Content (e.g. lesson plans , videos, interactive activities)

TruenorthlogicProfessionalDevelopment (STATE)

FREE

FREE

FREE

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Instructional Improvement Tools are optional

•We believe districts will find value in these tools to improve instruction

•Beginning in the 2014-15 school year, districts and charter school will pay $4/ADM to access these optional tools

Instructional Resources

AssessmentItems

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• CurrentOver 28,000 Instructional Resources (lesson plans, unit plans, multi-media, etc.) across all grades and subjects

• FutureContinued expansion of standards-aligned resources and vetted instructional resources including collecting and sharing the best of North Carolina educators’ work

Schoolnet Instructional Tools & Resources

• CurrentOver 36,000 items in ELA, Math, Science and Social Studies

• FutureContinued expansion of items banks including multiple item types. Estimated totals available for teacher and district use in the 2014-2015 School Year: 62,000+ items

• CurrentLocal data from educator use of the Classrooms and Assessment Admin Modules in Schoolnet and historical EOC and EOG data, CTE data, mClass data, and ACT data

• FutureIncludes daily attendance data, discipline and select demographic data from Student Information System (PowerSchool)

Data for Dashboards

Schoolnet: Classrooms Functionality

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Instructional Resources

Over 28,00028,000 Instructional Resources (lesson plans, unit plans, multi-media,etc.) across all grades and subjects

Additional standards-aligned resources and vetted instructional resources, including the best of North Carolina educators’ work

Present Future

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17,650+ Open Education Resources

Some of our many Content Providers

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11,920 External Resources

Current Providers of External Content

8,672 Instructional Resources for Social Studies and Science

1,137 Instructional Resources for English Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies, and World Languages

2,111 Additional Instructional Resources in various for Art, Music, History, etc.

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500+ NC DPI Resources

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Schoolnet: Classrooms Functionality

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Present Future

Student Performance

Student data from educator use of the Schoolnet Assessment Module and historical EOC and EOG data, CTE data, mClass data, and ACT data

Daily attendance data, discipline and select demographic data from Student Information System (PowerSchool)

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Schoolnet: Assessment Functionality

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Assessment Items

Over 36,00036,000 items in English Language Arts (ELA), Math, Science, and Social Studies

Additional items, including multiple item types (approximately

62,00062,000 total items will be available for teacher and district use at the start of the 2014-15 school year)

Present Future

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Classroom and Benchmark Assessment Items(formerly in ClassScape)

Grade 3-8 ELA 5,453

English II 593

Grades 3-8 Math 11,186

Algebra I/Integrated I 2,376

Grade 5 Science 1,871

Grade 8 Science 2,297

Biology 1,635

*Total: 25,411

These items are split into a bank for teachers to use daily for classroom assessment purposes (Publisher = NCDPI_Classroom) and a bank that is secure at the district level for benchmark purposes (Publisher = NCDPI_Benchmark).

*Development ongoing

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Classroom Assessment Items(Purchased)

Classroom (non-secure) Science and Social Studies Assessment Items

Social Studies Items

Grade 7 43

Grade 8 17

Global Geography 136

World History 551

American History I 578

American History II 349

Civics and Economics 777

Social Studies Total 2,451

Science ItemsGrade 3 152Grade 4 633Grade 5 352Grade 6 1,006Grade 7 880Grade 8 659Physical Science 603Biology 1,030Chemistry 596Physics 174Earth & Environmental 594

Science Total 6,67920

Classroom Assessment Items(Purchased)Next Generation K-12 Common Core ELA and Math Items

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Already Available in Item Central

Grade ELA Math

K 40 39

1 41 41

2 39 41

3 41 39

4 38 40

5 41 40

6 80 160

7 80 160

8 80 80

HS 319 2000

Total 799 840

Coming Soon

Grade ELA Math

K 1198 300

1 1198 282

2 1204 365

3 1176 458

4 1151 482

5 1179 513

6 1134 605

7 1149 535

8 1162 455

HS 4701 1861

Total 15252 5856

OpenClassCollaboration and Course Management Tools

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OpenClassCollaboration and Course Management Tools

• Offers teachers an online vehicle for organizing course materials and sharing with students

• Offers flexible space for delivering multi-media assignments to students, and receiving uploaded student work

• Enables creation of collaborative documents

• Offers space for “threaded” online conversations (student-student and teacher-student)

• Receives class roster and other student and teacher information from PowerSchool

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Professional Development (PD)State & Local Functionality

TruenorthlogicProfessionalDevelopment (LOCAL)

TruenorthlogicProfessionalDevelopment (STATE)

• Enables all districts and charters to utilize existing PD resources in a more sophisticated software platform that connects Educator Evaluation to PD

• Better tracking and reporting of State-offered PD

• Enables Opt-In districts and charters to utilize expanded functionality to manage both State and local-PD content, tracking, reporting, etc.

• Better tracking of State-offered and Local PD

FREE

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Part of OPT-IN

PD “State” Functionality

All districts and charters can…

•Search for and enroll in State-provided instructor-led and self-paced courses (presented in Moodle)

– Note: State-provided courses will be aligned with teacher and leader standards (where applicable)

•Maintain a transcript (including recommended CEUs) for State-provided courses

•View and create reports of staff transcripts

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PD “Local” FunctionalityOpt-In Districts and Charters can…

•Create and manage district/charter-level instructor led and self-paced courses in a common catalog

•Leverage built-in Moodle integration

•Provide integrated access to state-owned learning object repositories

•Choose courses to align with teacher and leader standards

•Target courses to specific participants

•Create aggregate and individual reports

•Produce course completion certificates & surveys

•Manage enrollment and participant processes, including wait lists, courses & sections, rosters, attendance, completion, etc.

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Systems and Services Timeline

Start of School 2013-14

April 2014 Fall/early winter 2014-15

October - November 2013

PowerSchoolPowerSchool

SchoolnetSchoolnet

Educator Evaluation (for teachers)Educator Evaluation (for teachers)

Educator Evaluation (for principals)Educator Evaluation (for principals)

OpenClassOpenClass

Professional DevelopmentProfessional Development

Summer 2014

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Minimum Technical Requirements

The Minimum Technical Specifications document is updated as needed. Please visit the link below to find the most current version of this document:

http://www.ncpublicschools.org/homebase/getting-ready/implementation/category?category=Technical%20Requirements

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, or self-subscribe at http://goo.gl/appdp

•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/biweekly/?year=2014

Contact: HBSC

•You can email the Home Base Support Center (HBSC) with your questions about Home Base. Questions will be logged into Remedy for assistance.

•Support personnel provide the answer, research or assign to the appropriate area for resolution; keep in mind, each region has a dedicated support staff member

•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

homebase.incidents@its.nc.gov

Regional SupportHBSC Mini-Teams

Call: 919.807.4357email: homebase.incidents@its.nc.gov

RegionHBSC PowerSchool

HBSC SchoolNet

Region 1 – Northeast Christie Newkirk Cheri Arthur

Region 2 – Southeast Bonita Chasten Cheri Arthur

Region 3 – North Central Michelle Gresham LaKesha Williams

Region 4 – South Central Walt Raif LaKesha Williams

Region 5 – Piedmont-Triad Evelyn Herbin Tiffany Strickland

Region 6 – Southwest Gail Veach Tiffany Strickland

Region 7 – Northwest Tessa Parkerl Emily Kline

Region 8 - Western Maurice Jordan Emily Kline

Wake Penny May LaKesha Williams

Cumberland/WSF/Guilford Gwen Bissette LaKesha Williams