NCDPI Office of Charter Schools (OCS) Updates
A Message from the Desk of Dave Machado, Director, NCDPI Office of Charter Schools
It is with excitement that I began my tenure as Director of OCS on June 27, 2016! During the past week, many have been welcoming as I transitioned from the Chief Administrator of Lincoln Charter School. I served Lincoln Charter School, a two campus K-12 charter school, in
Lincoln County with 1900 students and a staff of 175 for 12
years.
I and the staff of OCS know the challenges you face daily and will continue to collaborate to ensure the existence of quality charter schools to meet the mission and goats of the State Board of Education and the Charter Schools Advisory Board.
As I settle into the Director role, I plan to begin visiting schools. To accommodate requests to visit schools, please let me know when you are
planning an event and I will try to attend, calendar permitting. Specific requests should be sent to dave.machado@dpi.nc.gov.
Thanks for your service to charter school students in North Carolina!
 NC Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) Updates
Educator Effectiveness Survey to Coordinate Charter School Professional Development (PD)
Educator Effectiveness is conducting a survey to support PD for charter schools across the state. The data collected will determine professional development needs to support charter schools. In conjunction with the Office of Charter Schools we plan to offer a Charter Ready, similar to Principal Ready, geared toward charter school needs. Your voice matters, so please take the time to complete the survey by July 15, 2016.
Please contact, Dr. Terry L. Cline, Service Support Coordinator -at terry.cline@dpi.nc.gov with questions or concerns.
http://goo.gl/forms/FObzMMZXhhtatBhB3
Charter School Professional Development
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Division of School Business No Longer Requires Equipment
Disposition Form Submissions
Effective July 1, 2016, the
Division of School Business no longer requires LEAs / charter schools to submit
Equipment Disposition Forms
for review and approval. Please note this does not eliminate the responsibility of LEAs / charter schools to meet property management
requirements pursuant to federal regulations. 2 C.F.R. 200.313(e).
NCDPI, as the pass-through entity, will
continue to monitor LEA / charter school activities to ensure compliance with
Federal statutes, regulations, and the terms and conditions of the subgrant,
including the property management requirements in the UGG. 2 C.F.R. 200.331(d).
Please see the attached memo for additional details and contact Leigh Ann Kerr, Assistant Director School Business with questions or concerns.
Attachment: Equipment
Disposition Forms no longer submitted to DPI Memorandum
Home Base End Of Year (EOY) Process Completed Early!
The NCDPI Home Base Team is pleased to
announce that the 2015-16 End of Year (EOY) process for the Home Base Suite of
Applications completed 3:00 p.m., Wednesday, July 6 – several days prior to its
anticipated end date. Home Base has been returned to service, and users
are successfully logging in and performing their normal duties.
Note: The EDDIE feed will not be returned to
service until Monday, July 18. This is strategically planned to give
our customers, LEAs and charters, time to update their information in the
system.
Many thanks to those NCDPI business owners
and users who assisted in making this year’s EOY process a success. We
could not have done this without you!
If you have questions pertaining to the EOY
process, please contact the Home Base Support Center.
 Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) Data-Evaluation for Implementation
One of the six
critical components of an MTSS framework is Data-Evaluation. While
student assessment data tells us about student behavior, implementation
data tells us how our adults are implementing the critical parts of our
Multi-Tiered System of Support.
Traditionally, School Improvement Plans
focus on student assessment data, rather than implementation data. As
teams plan for implementation of a Multi-Tiered System of Support, a
shift in focus should occur, with implementation data becoming even more
important.
We cannot change student outcomes without
changing how our adults support our students to get the outcomes. And,
we cannot attribute a change in student outcomes without the
implementation data. An example of how the NCDPI MTSS team is providing
targeted assistance to support school teams to be intentional about
collecting and using implementation data is found in this video housed
in the North Carolina Educator Evaluator System (NCEES) modules.
If you have additional questions, please contact Amy Jablonski at amy.jablonski@dpi.nc.gov
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Course Coding Guidance for New Math Courses
Following an extensive standards review and revision process, the North Carolina State Board of Education (SBE) approved new high school math standards on June 2, 2016 for Math I, Math II, and Math III. The new standards will be fully implemented during the 2016-17 school year and will now be named NC Math 1, NC Math 2, and NC Math 3.
New course codes will be available in PowerSchool on July 8, 2016, titled NC Math 1, NC Math 2, and NC Math 3. Beginning with the 2016-17 school year, districts are to no longer use the course codes for the old standards for Math I, Math II and Math III.
Please see the attached memo which provides additional details on the coding for new math courses. If you have any questions regarding End-of-Course assessments, please contact your Regional Accountability Coordinator. If you have questions or need assistance with PowerSchool scheduling, please submit a ticket to the HBSC (homebase.incidents@its.nc.gov).
Attachment: Coding Guidance
for New Math Courses
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