Get Tech-Savvy at Home Base Symposium

Register Now for Feb. 22-23 Conference

Register today to Plug In & Connect at this year’s Home Base Symposium in Greensboro Feb. 22-23! 

Learn something new with more than 100 sessions offered, including  “Catching the Canvas Wave”, “Accessing NC School Report Cards Online,” “Google Spreadsheets and Data Manipulation,” “Using Twitter to Plug In & Connect with other Educators,” “Discipline Data Reporting,” “Navigating LEP/EL Data in Powerschool” and much more. Topics in every strand are geared to a wide range of skill levels. 

Don’t forget to bring your own device.  Follow us on Twitter @NCHomeBase and check out the NC SIS Website for more information.

Who should attend? Every user of the Home Base Suite of Applications (PowerSchool, Schoolnet, Truenorthlogic, Canvas and NCEdCloud).

• Home Base Coordinators
• School-based Administrators
• Charter School Directors & Administrators
• Technology Directors
• Schoolnet Leaders
• HR/Personnel Staff
• PowerSchool Coordinators
• School Data Managers
• Canvas Administrators
• Testing Coordinators
• Curriculum & Instruction Staff
• Instructional Technology Staff
• School Counselor
• Lead Teachers

Online registration and fee details are located on the NC SIS website’s Symposium page.

Truenorthlogic

Professional Development

Register for Spring Session of Instructor-Led Online Courses

Mark your calendars! Our spring session of facilitated online courses are open for registration.  Below is the list of instructor–facilitated online courses being offered by Educator Effectiveness. Our facilitated courses provide the opportunity to interact with peers and an instructor along with high-quality professional development. They combine the flexibility of working from anywhere at any time, along with the benefits of working with a cohort of peers.

All courses will start Monday, Feb. 6. Registration is open now and is limited to 35 participants per section. Go to DPI's Online Professional Development website for more detailed information about courses. Register here.

• Building and Sustaining Professional Development (6 weeks, 1.0 CEU)
• Connecting with our 21st Century Learners (5 weeks, 1.0 CEU)
• Digital Literacies in the K-12 Classroom (7 weeks, 1.5 CEU)
• Effective Digital Strategies for Teaching and Learning in the K-12 Classroom (MOOClet) (6 weeks, 2.0 CEU)
• Introduction to Data Literacy (5 weeks, 1.0 CEU)
• Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science and Technical Subjects, Part 1 (5 weeks, 0.5 CEU)
• North Carolina Teacher Standards and Evaluation Process (6 weeks, 2.0 CEU)
• Responsibilities of the 21st-Century Educator (7 weeks, 1.0 CEU)
• Seize the Data Part 1 (7 weeks, 2.0 CEU)
• Universal Design for Learning 1: UDL in the Everyday Classroom (6 weeks, 1.5 CEU)

Symposium Session Highlight

Become a King or Queen for the day!  Your district and the state set multiple deadlines each year for different components of the NCEES process. 

You would like to keep your principals and superintendent informed about completion percentages ranging from Evaluation Progress Reports to login statistics, and from Orientation dates to PDP Signature Completion rates.  But how do you easily export this date and manipulate it in Microsoft Excel to share this data? 

In the session “How to Become the King or Queen of NCEES Reporting” you will learn about eight different NCEES reports that you should be running throughout the school year and tie them to target dates on your yearly NCEES timeline. 

Register today to “PLUG IN & CONNECT” at this year’s Home Base Symposium.  

Discover Schoolnet

In the last "“Wired Wednesday,” we previewed Text to Speech (Read Aloud).   If you missed last week’s webinar, make sure you access the recording or powerpoint from the webinar on the “SN Webinar” tab of the NC: Home Base Schoolnet Professional Learning Plan!

Quick Tips

Classrooms for Teachers

In the Instructional Materials section of the Classrooms, there are a variety of student resources in the “SAS” tab. When you are in “Instructional materials,” click on the “Search” button to do a blank search. Click on the “SAS” tab and use the “Audience” filter to see “Student” materials.

Classrooms for Leadership

In the Instructional Materials section of the Classrooms, you will notice the resources on the SAS tab! This tab has great student interactive materials that you can highlight with teachers based on their needs for lesson plans and activities.

Upcoming Professional Learning 

Check with your district level Schoolnet lead (click here). They will determine if they have the staff to provide the professional learning or if they need to request a district training. If the lead can host a district training, please have them to contact a DTL Regional Consultant for more details.

Upcoming Webinars

Wed, Feb 1, 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Click here to find information from past postings.

Still need help? You may also have your LEA/District Schoolnet Lead contact the Home Base Support Center through the Remedy web portal https://nc-myit.us.onbmc.com or (919) 807-4357.

Symposium Session Highlight

Schoolnet is so much more than assessments. 

Come to “Take off Your Hairnet and Put on Your Schoolnet” to see how teachers can use Schoolnet to guide instruction in their classroom.  You will explore areas you may be unfamiliar with like Student Workspaces, Lesson Planning and using a variety of item types for Formative Assessment. 

Don’t miss this great session and more than 100 other options! Register today to “PLUG IN & CONNECT” at this year’s Home Base Symposium.  Bring your own device.  Follow us on Twitter @NCHomeBase and check out the NC SIS Website for more information.