So You’re Interested in Opting Into Home BaseReview of Opt-in Components and Q&A
AssessmentStudent
Information and Learner
Profile
Instructional Design, Practice
& Resources
Data Analysis and
Reporting
Information
a student information system to replace NC WISE
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 new professional development system
Information Instruction
Educator Effectiveness:
Evaluation and Professional Development
TestNavSummativeAssessment
OpenClassCollaboration
SchoolnetInstructionandAssessment
PowerSchoolStudent Information
TruenorthlogicEvaluation and PD
An Integrated Suite of Technology Tools
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AssessmentInstructional Design, Practice
& Resources
Data Analysis and
Reporting
Instructional Tools & Resources Effectiveness
Instruction
Educator Effectiveness:
Professional Development
OpenClassCollaboration
SchoolnetInstructionandAssessment
LOCAL ProfessionalDevelopment
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• Opt in Deadline: July 15, 2014• Cost: $4 per ADM for all of the optional
components and for all content currently available through Home Base
Optional Components of Home Base
ContentInstructional Resources and Assessment Items
Schoolnet: Classrooms Functionality
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Instructional Resources
Over 23,000 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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14,900+ Open Education Resources
Some of our many Content Providers
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9,809 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
Historical EOC and EOG data, CTE data, mClass 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 32,000 items in English Language Arts (ELA), Math, Science, and Social Studies
Additional items, including multiple item types (approximately 60,000 total items will be available for teacher and district use in 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 ItemsGrade 7 43Grade 8 17Global Geography 136World History 551American History I 578American History II 349Civics and Economics 777
Social Studies Total 2,451
Science ItemsGrade 3 152Grade 4 633Grade 5 352Grade 6 1,006Grade 7 880Grade8 659Physical Science 603Biology 1,030Chemistry 596Physics 174Earth & Environmental 594
Science Total 6,67914
Classroom Assessment Items(Purchased)Next Generation K-12 Common Core ELA and Math Items (in development)
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Schoolnet: Data and Reporting Functionality
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Key Performance Indicators (KPI)
Key Performance Indicators (KPI)
Reports
Standards Mastery
Item Analysis
Skills Analysis
As with other parts of Home Base, once your district chooses to set up
OpenClass, you’ll be able to access it through the PowerSchool single sign-on.
OpenClass
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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PD “Local” FunctionalityOpt-In Districts and Charters will be able to…• Create & 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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PD Tool Local Timeline
• Local functionality will be piloted (April-August) in advance of full implementation
• Districts/Charters who Opt-In to Home Base by July 15, 2014 may begin implementation work in August 2014 with locally determined go-live dates
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Opt In Process
• District Superintendents and Charter School Directors (or their designees) will fill out an online form found at http://forms.ncpublicschools.gov/home-base/home-base-opt-in
• Deadline: July 15, 2014
• NCDPI has offered webinars for teachers, school administrators, and district administrators on the various components of Home Base
• Archived recordings of all Home Base webinars can be found at:ncpublicschools.org/homebase/training/videos/webinars
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Home Base Webinars
Planning Documents
• If you are planning your implementation of Home Base, you can find planning documents at http://goo.gl/Fb9auB
Questions?