Office of Charter Schools (OCS) Updates
2017 Charter School Performance Framework
Submission Dates
OCS collects evidence of
operational, financial, and academic compliance through the Charter School
Performance Framework (PF). January 2017 begins the collection process
for the 2017 Charter School Performance Framework .
Based on feedback,
submissions for the 2017 PF are staggered to allow extended periods of
collection and review. The 2017 Charter School
Performance Framework document library is now open for submissions. Your
school’s username for the 2017 SharePoint system is the same as your 2016 PF.
Deadline- February
28, 2017- All Schools
A1- School Report Card and
Letter Grade
A1- Parent Letter (only for schools receiving D/F in 2016)
A13- Evidence of Fire Inspection
A15- Civil and Liability Insurance Certificate for 2016-17
Performance Framework
Upload Center Instructions - How to Submit Performance
Framework Documents
1. Review
Performance Framework Criteria under the “Criteria” section. Click the small
triangle next
to each category to read the descriptions.
2. Before uploading any documents ensure all files
are prepared in PDF format using the naming
convention “SchoolName_MeasureName_YY”.
3. Under “Upload Documents” section, click “Add Document”.
Click “Choose File”, navigate to the
file’s location, and affirm your selection. Uncheck “Overwrite
existing files”.
4. Another dialog box will appear with
required fields. Select the “LEA” and “Measure”. Enter
“Contact Name” and “Contact Email”. Click “Check-In” to complete upload
process. The uploaded
documents will display under the “Upload Documents” section.
5. Repeat
Steps 1-5 for all documents. A confirmation email will be sent for
each uploaded
document.
Please refer to the 2017
Charter School Performance Framework Resources for item specifics (included
in the document list). To access the system, please go to https://leadpincgov.sharepoint.com/sites/lea/Pages/pfp.aspx.
For questions regarding the
2017 Charter School Performance Framework please contact
Cande Honeycutt at (919)807-3493 or cande.honeycutt@dpi.nc.gov.
Moving forward we are asking that all Charter School
requests for SharePoint assistance be requested through the Support Center
by calling 919-807-4357 to help ensure you are getting the
assistance you need as soon as possible.
Attachment:
PF Resources
October 2016 Leadership Institute Conference Reimbursements
The Office of Charter Schools (OCS) has formalized the process to return the October 2016 fees charter schools. If your school submitted a fee for the October Leadership Conference (which was cancelled due to weather) please submit to Ms. Mary Brown via email the following:
- W-9 form - required by NCDPI accounts payable
A check will be sent the week the form W-9 form is received. Ms. Brown can be reached at mary.brown@dpi.nc.gov. Please contact the OCS directly with questions or concerns at 919-807-3491.
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Occupational Course of Study in Charter Schools
Please see the attached memo which communicates Occupational Course of Study requirements in charter schools.
Attachment: OCS
Memo
NC Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) Updates
Feb. 21 Exceptional Children (EC) Directors'
Webinar - Submit Questions
Please
submit any question you want the Division to address during the Feb. 21 webinar
to Tish Bynum (Tish.bynum@dpi.nc.gov)
no later than February 10, 2017.
We
look forward to continued collaboration during the February EC Directors'
webinar. Webinar link is listed below.
EC Director/Coordinator Webinar Registration Information:
Join us for a webinar on Feb 21, 2017 at 10:00 AM EST.
Register now!
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/2005007111306150657
EC Division Leadership Team webinar for EC
Directors/Coordinators.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email
containing information about joining the webinar.
View System Requirements
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Charter School High School (HS) Math Summit
We have secured a
date, time and place for the Charter School HS Math Summit. It will occur
during the CCSA conference Greensboro, and charters will have a separate (free) registration.
Please use registration link below to register for this specific session and see the information below for the training specifics.
Tuesday, March 21
10:00 - 4:00
10 a.m. - 12:00
pm morning sessions
12:00 pm - 1:30
lunch on your own
1:30pm -3:30
pm afternoon sessions
Registration Link: https://www.research.net/r/Charterhsmathsummit
Updates and
Announcements for Curriculum Leaders
English Language Arts (ELA) Standards
Update for District Curriculum Leaders
When: February 27, 2017
from 10am – 11am
What: The webinar will
provide discussion about the ELA Draft Standards. Learn about potential changes
to the standards, challenges for implementation, and supports the ELA Team has
planned.
Who: District leaders
responsible for implementation of content standards are encouraged to attend
the webinar. Curriculum Leaders who are a part of the Curriculum Leaders
Collaborative East and West cohorts have/will receive this content at the 3rd
CLC Session, but are welcome to join the webinar, if desired.
How: Join
NCDPI ELA Team and K12 Standards, Curriculum and Instruction Director,
Tiffany Perkins by registering via the following link: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8415684369371055105. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email
containing information about joining the webinar.
NCVPS NC Math 1
Intervention Course Webinar
Do you have students who are low performing or
under achieving in NC Math 1? NCVPS has partnered with NCDPI to create a
new NC Math 1 intervention course to help students in need. This course is
designed for students who lack prior success in a traditional math setting, are
learning English as a second language, or who have an IEP or 504.
Please join us in one
of our NC Math 1 Information Session webinars. Participants will be given a
detailed overview of why, how and the benefits of enrolling in the program,
which is part of a multi-tiered system of support (MTSS). Preliminary data from
the pilot will be shared along with implementation for the upcoming school
year.
Webinar dates are as follows. Click on the date for
details and registration.
- Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2 – 3 p.m.
- Wednesday, Feb. 15, 7 – 8 p.m.
- Friday, Feb. 24, 10 – 11 a.m.
Learn more about the
NCVPS NC Math 1 Intervention course by clicking here. Questions may be directed
to NCVPS Director of Outreach and Support Mia Murphy.
"Just in
Time" Virtual support for teachers of NC Math 1, 2, & 3
The NCDPI math team
in collaboration with the NC Collaborative for Mathematics Learning (NC2ML) at
UNCG are pleased to announce redesigned "Just in Time" Virtual
support for teachers of NC Math 1, 2, & 3. As a part of our High School
Implementation plan for revised math standards, we hosted monthly webinars for
teachers of each course as well as three throughout the semester for
leaders.
Based on feedback
from teachers and leaders of mathematics, we plan to release all of the
supports ahead of time rather than scheduled and recorded webinars. They will
include tasks for teachers, videos and research briefs on standards and
pedagogy. These support modules will be posted in the Canvas course for
teachers and will be available separately on our math wiki.
More specific
information on access and contents coming soon! Look for the first set by
February 15. A reminder and update will be shared at release time.
Career and College
Graduates (CCRG) Information Meetings
The Career and
College Ready Graduates (CCRG) legislation was passed in the 2015 state budget.
This legislation required the State Board of Community Colleges (SBCC), in
consultation with the State Board of Education (SBE), to develop a program for
implementation beginning in the 2016-17 school year that introduces the college
developmental mathematics and developmental reading and English curriculums in
the high school senior year and provides opportunities for college remediation
for students prior to high school graduation through cooperation with community
college partners. While the SBCC has received an extension to begin
statewide implementation, there are quite a few things colleges and high school
partners can be working on now to prepare.
Seven college/high
school partnership models for the 2016-17 academic year are underway. The
community college and respective high school(s) have worked diligently to
create the best model program possible for their students. SBCC is offering
regional information meetings to allow all colleges and high school/DPI
partners to hear from these model programs about what is happening, what is
working, and what you can do to prepare to implement CCRG in local high school
partnerships.
Please consider
sending a team of three or four, including high school faculty, administrators,
and/or district personnel, who will be working on the implementation of
CCRG at your institution to the regional meeting nearest you.
March 15 – Davidson County Community College
March 21 – Asheville Buncombe Technical Community College
April 3 – Pitt Community College
The attached flyer
has more details on the meetings and where to RSVP. We hope you are able to
take advantage of this opportunity to learn about CCRG and your role in
implementation.
Attachment: Career
and College Ready Graduates Item
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Weekly Legislative Update - Friday, February 3, 2017
Please see the link below for
the Legislative Update on this week’s activities.
Attachment: LegislativeUpdate-2.3.17.pdf
NC Educator Evaluation System (NCEES) Update
NCDPI
is happy to announce that the NCEES nightly employee data feed has been updated
to accommodate the issues outlined below:
Issue #1 LEAs who transitioned to LINQ HR
Several
LEAs have moved their HR processing to LINQ HR, a 3rd party human
resource application. To accommodate those LEAs, a process was built to
collect data from the LINQ HR system, HRMS, and charter/agency schools.
Issue #2 Re-Write of the nightly feed
The
current file creation process was unstable and inaccurate. New
development of the file allows for an enhanced email process and alleviates the
current character limitation of 100 characters for school locations. It also
eliminates the sending of inactive employees into school locations.
The
NEW process for pulling email addresses are
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PowerSchool
-
LINQ
-
HRMS
or via upload process for charter schools and/or agency schools
Question: How will this affect users?
Answer: End-users will notice
updated e-mail addresses, demographic, and accurate location information within
the Truenorthlogic system.
Target Completion
This
process is targeted for implementation Sunday, February 5. Changes will appear
in the Truenorthlogic system on Monday.
Coming Future Developments
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An
option for an LEA or charter/agency school to select the default email
source
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Ability
to remove inactive employees
If
you experience any technical problems with the Truenorthlogic application,
please contact the Home Base Support Center at (919) 807-4357 or submit a
ticket to the Remedy portal.
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Mentor Teacher Policy Updates
At its February 2nd meeting, the State Board of Education (SBE) approved
changes to SBE policy TCP-A-004 regarding requirements for mentor teachers.
The policy is attached for your reference.
Approved changes are in underlined, red font. The approved changes will
be in effect for the 2017-18 school year.
NCDPI has made the SBE aware of
the difficulties many districts will have implementing the law (and SBE
policies) as written. The SBE is committed to making the General
Assembly aware of these difficulties and will request legislative changes to
the current law.
Attachment: TCP-A-004.pdf
Office of Civil Rights (OCR)/Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) Updates
Those
LEAs and Schools that were not open in the school year 2015-16 are not required
to participate in this collection.
One
hundred percent of Charters and LEAs have completed the LEA level CRDC
PowerSchool Preview reports! The staff at NCDPI appreciates your
tenacity and thoroughness!
The vendor ran a script February 1, 2017, at 7
p.m. Eastern, to complete the approval process for those LEAs and Charters that
experienced issues.
Please remember that any data that was not captured in
PowerSchool (PS) or other external data files will need to be recorded in the
Federal Submission Portal. NCDPI will upload the following:
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LEA level CRDC PS Data
-
School level CRDC PS Data
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Expenditure and FTE
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Teacher Certification (separate from the PS data
file)
NCDPI will upload PS data and external data during the
week of February 6, 2017. In parallel, LEAs and Charters will receive
accounts from the Feds into the Federal Submission Portal. LEAs and
Charters may log in and create accounts during the February 6, 2017 upload, but
should not upload any data at that time. Do not update or add data until
notified by the NC DPI.
LEAs and Charters will be responsible for adding Teacher
absenteeism information and any data that was not recorded in PowerSchool.
LEAs and Charters may update
any information as necessary to complete the collection.
LEAs and Charters will resolve any errors and certify the
data in the Federal Submission Portal prior to April 24, 2017. Can we
make it a goal to complete certification by mid-March?
Thank you to all who worked to make this first phase a
success.
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Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities (PRTFs) Approved to Provide
Special Education
Please see the attached
directory of approved Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities (PRTFs)
approved to provide Special Education.
If you have any questions,
please contact Glendora Hagins at 910 417-5915.
Attachment: Memo-PRTF+Approved+0217.pdf
Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS): Where are
Charter Schools with Implementation?
To strategically plan collaborative
implementation of an MTSS in each Charter School across NC, a Charter
Collaboration Workgroup has been created. In collaboration with the Office of
Charter Schools, this group is made up of consultants from Integrated Academic
and Behavior Support, K-3 Assessment,
and Exceptional Children Division.
This
group is functioning to design differentiated supports to implement an MTSS
framework and Specific Learning Disability Policy within Charter settings. North Carolina currently has three groups of
Charter Schools for which support is being designed:
●
currently in an MTSS Cohort (1-4),
●
un-cohorted
Charters,
●
and new Charter
Schools.
The initial focus is development of an
MTSS PD/TAC plan for charter schools that are not in a current MTSS Cohort.
Upcoming support will include a February Twitter Chat and a webinar.
For more
information on establishing readiness for
implementation of an MTSS , please click here or for
additional information, contact Amy Jablonski.
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Education Consultants for
Deaf & Hard of Hearing
Please see the attached
announcement of two new Education Consultants for Deaf and Hard of Hearing,
Jenny Stroupe and Nancy Woytowich, as well as regional consultant
assignments.
Attachment: Memo-New+Employee+Announcement-Deaf+HH+Consultants.pdf
Disaster
Recovery (Hurricane Matthew Oct 2016 / Wildfires Nov 2016) Reporting - Charter
Schools
The Disaster Recovery Act of 2016 (SL 2016-124 Section 5.7) provided
flexibility to charter schools affected by Hurricane Matthew or wild fires on
making up instructional days in 2016-17. The Bill requires charter schools to
provide information to the Department of Public Instruction on the
implementation of the legislation.
The survey link is https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TVBR83N and is to be
completed by each
charter school. Please complete and submit by February 10, 2017.
If you have questions, contact Gwendolyn Tucker at gwendolyn.tucker@dpi.nc.gov.
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Recruitment and Retention
of Special Educators Summit
Please see the attached
regarding the Recruitment and Retention of Special Educators Summit on Feb. 24,
2017.
Registration deadline is February 8, 2017.
If you have questions regarding
the Summit, please contact Carol Moffitt at 919 807-3997 or carol.moffitt@dpi.nc.gov.
Attachment: Memo-Recruitment++Retention+Summit+0117.pdf
Charter Schools in the News
CHARTER
SCHOOL WAS BEST CHOICE FOR SPECIAL-NEEDS CHILD
CELEBRITY
CHEF RAISES THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS FOR LOCAL CHARTER SCHOOL
Other News
Burroughs
Wellcome Fund Accepting Applications for Student Science Enrichment Program
The
Burroughs Wellcome Fund has opened its application for the 2017 Student Science
Enrichment Program (SSEP) grant awards. SSEP supports diverse programs with a
common goal: to enable primary and secondary students to participate in
creative, hands-on scientific activities for K-12 students and pursue
inquiry-based exploration in BWF's home state of North Carolina. These awards
provide up to $60,000 per year for three years. The application deadline is
April 18, 2017.
For more information or to
access the application, visit http://www.bwfund.org/grant-programs/science-education/student-science-enrichment-program
Forum
Beginning Teacher Leadership Network (BTLN) Request for Proposals
The Public School Forum of
NC is seeking current teachers who are interested in presenting to the Beginning
Teacher Leadership Network (BTLN) in Wake, Mecklenburg, and Union counties
during the Spring 2017 semester. If you are interested, please apply online here. Contact James Ford at jford@ncforum.org
with questions.
Applications
Open for 2017-18 NC Teacher Voice Network
Applications
are open for the North Carolina Teacher Voice Network. Hope
Street Group NC Teacher Voice Network Leaders collaborate with state and
national decision-makers, as well as their colleagues, to develop practical
policy solutions to challenges in education. Network Leaders remain in their
classrooms full-time and work with Hope Street Group for 10-15 hours each month
and receive a $3,000 stipend for the 12-month fellowship.
The application will be
open January 16 through February 10 at apply.hopestreetgroup.org. Email
questions to Fellowship@hopestreetgroup.org
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