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EDUCATOR EFFECTIVENESS
New Literacy Modules Carry Credit
Educator
Effectiveness has heard your requests for more courses that carry literacy
credit. After careful review, we are happy to announce that two
additional courses within the Home Base PD System catalog meet the
statutory description (115c-296(b)(1)b) of a literacy credit.
Supporting
English Language Learners (ELLs) in the Classroom: Action Research from the GTN
and The Reading and Writing Connection: Action Research from the GTN
Project are literacy modules produced by the Governor’s Teacher Network
action research project. For a detailed description of the two courses, please visit
http://www.rt3nc.org/ For support on issues
related to online professional development, please contact Dr. Geetanjali Soni
at geetanjali.soni@dpi.nc.gov.
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Action Research Offers Ideas on Professional Development
Have
you ever wondered how professional development is done in districts other than
yours? Are you looking for ideas that have been tested in North Carolina
classrooms? Look no further.
More than 200 action research projects created by
members of the Governor’s Teacher Network are available. Many projects
examined different types of professional development activities.
Brittany Guy,
an action researcher in the Winston-Salem/Forsyth school district, investigated a
yearlong personalized, blended professional development model for implementing
technology in the classroom. To learn more about this
model or find Ms. Guy’s action research results, please visit the Online Professional Development Catalog and
click on the Action Research tab.
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Spring Principal READY: One More Chance
You still have
time to register for the last Principal READY session for the spring scheduled for April
27th in the Southwest region.
Principals across the state have
had the opportunity to learn about the changes concerning Standard 6,
licensure, and Analysis of Student Work. In addition, the Statewide System of Support has created
custom sessions based on the feedback received from the districts they serve.
If
you are interested in learning more about self-directed evaluations, strategies
for principals serving low-performing schools, improving teacher retention,
etc., please go to the NCEES
wiki to register today.
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Find CTE Items in Schoolnet
Attention CTE
teachers! Did you know that you can
easily search CTE items in Schoolnet and add them to an existing or new test?
- Hover over Assessment
Admin
- Choose Find an
Item, Passage, or Rubric
- Click Advanced
Search
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Search by
Publisher
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Type NCCTE_Unsecure in Publisher field (NCCTE_Unsecure items are available to all
teachers)
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Click
Search Items
4. Choose items by clicking the radio buttons beside each
item.
5. Click the blue Add
Items to Test.
6. From
this page you can choose to add items to an already existing test or to Create new test with these items.
Be sure to
review the Helpful Hints that are located on your dashboard. These hints will
be updated at least once a month to keep users well informed with frequently
asked questions posed to the Home Base Support Center.
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Maintenance Weekend Begins Friday
The next Home
Base maintenance weekend is scheduled to run from Friday evening through early Monday. Maintenance will be performed only on the PowerSchool
application. All other Home Base applications will be accessible through
the IAM Service.
PowerSchool will
shut down Friday at approximately 5 p.m. Once maintenance is completed, a
message will be sent to notify users that the system is up and available for
use. PowerSchool will be returned to service no later than 6 a.m. Monday. If a delay in bringing up the system should occur, users will be
notified.
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