Maintenance Set for this Weekend
The next Home Base maintenance is scheduled for Friday, Feb. 19. Currently, PowerSchool is the only application now set for maintenance. All other Home Base applications will remain available.
The PowerSchool application will be brought down for one night only, Friday, Feb. 19, at 7 p.m. and returned to service by 7 a.m., Saturday morning, Feb. 20. The application will be made accessible to all users once maintenance is complete.
Note: Each year, a list of scheduled maintenance windows are published by NCDPI. This is published in advance to help teachers and administrators better prepare for temporary outages and loss of access. Please review the 2020-2021 maintenance schedule and put these dates on your calendar. In most cases, the entire window is not necessary and we can return systems to service earlier than listed. If emergency maintenance is required in addition to these scheduled dates, all users will be notified in advance.
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Canvas Teacher Spotlight
District: Iredell-Statesville Schools
Schools: The Brawley School and Northview School
Contributors: Media Specialist Dana Gillis, media specialist at The Brawley School, Elisabeth White, IB coordinator for The Brawley School and Northview School
Topic: Virtual Service Learning Support Course
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Students at The Brawley School and Northview School in Iredell-Statesville Schools are using Canvas this year to plan, reflect on and share their service-learning experiences.
Part of the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme framework includes participation in community service. Because of the safety concerns presented this year by the COVID-19 pandemic, Media Specialist Dana Gillis at The Brawley School (right) and IB Coordinator Elisabeth White of The Brawley School and Northview School (below) collaborated to create a course in Canvas which leads students through the #DoGoodFromHome Challenge to support their service learning process for 2020-21.
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With some students fully remote and some attending school through the hybrid format, service learning presented unique opportunities for innovation. Canvas proved to be the most user-friendly and accessible format to meet the schools' goals for several reasons. The expectations and process for service learning could easily be shared with all students, regardless of their learning environment. In addition, having the guiding questions and prompts in Canvas made for a smooth process for students to plan and reflect on their service learning journey. Finally, the ability to share the course through the Commons, as well as the Comment feature in Speedgrader, allowed for collaboration and communication along every step of the way.
Canvas allowed students to participate in a valid service learning experience despite the pandemic and to meet their IB goals of becoming caring, productive citizens of the world.
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New Canvas Course Design Basics Self-Paced Mini Course Available!
Ready to take your Canvas course design to the next level?
This one-hour mini-course shows you how to use the Canvas Course Design Checklist to support your course building process to design a simple and easy to navigate homepage and your first content module.
Register for this free course in NCEES and earn 0.1 CEU in Digital Learning Competency Credit!
Imagine Math Classrooms Receive Recognition
Mathematics classrooms across the state with students recording high usage of Imagine Math lessons were identified for recognition by Imagine Learning throughout November and December in 2020.
Classrooms where students averaged passing 5 or more lessons were randomly selected as winners. Each selected classroom is recognized as an Imagine Math Classroom of the Month. Congratulations to the students, teachers, and schools for this honor.
Teacher: Destiny Feemster
Class: NC Math 1
School: Southwest Middle School
District: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
Teacher: Nickie Holloman
Class: Grade 5 Math
School: Pine Level Elementary
District: Johnston County Public Schools
Teacher: Marie Hauser
Class: Advanced Math 7
School: Mount Airy Middle
District: Mount Airy City Schools
Teacher: Clint Byers
Class: Grade 8 Math
Charter School: Two Rivers Community School
Teacher: Katie Wright – 3 (A-F)
Class: Grade 4 Math
School: C.C. Wright Elementary School
District: Wilkes County Schools
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#GoOpenNC and #GoOpenVA are partnering for an #OER summit UnConference on #DLDay - Thursday, Feb 25, from 2:30 to 5 p.m. Connect with educators to share how you can RISE above during and after the pandemic!
Register for this free event at: http://bit.ly/riseoer21reg
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Register Now for Spring 2021 Culturally Relevant Teaching Team Curriculum Intensive!
This is a nine-week collaborative experience for a team of three to six educators to learn about Culturally Relevant, Responsive, and Sustaining competencies and apply that knowledge to evaluating and creating curriculum resources. Registration closes Feb. 24.
This professional learning experience is open to pre-K-12 teams of three to six educators from all North Carolina public schools and is FREE. Earn up to 2.2 CEU credit.
For more information, go to: http://bit.ly/CRTspring21
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Register for NCEES End of Year Webinars
It’s time to think about preparing for End of Year Activities with Evaluation and Professional Development Plans. Please click the titles below to register for our End-of-Year webinars that will be held in March.
EOY for Teachers-Support Staff
Date: Tuesday, March 9
Time: 4 to 5 p.m.
Audience: Teachers and Support Staff, Evaluators, Observers
Description: Participants will gain an understanding of the process for completing the Professional Development Plan End-of-Year Review. Teachers will explore the steps leading to the Summary Evaluation Conference, how to complete the signatures acknowledging the summary evaluation and how to provide a written response and artifacts.
EOY for Principals
Date: Tuesday, March 16
Time: 4 to 5 p.m.
Audience: Principals and Evaluators of Principals
Description: Topics to be outlined include reviewing the Teacher Evaluation Process and responsibilities, managing completion reports for staff, and reviewing the end of the year for the Principal Evaluation Plan. Participants will be encouraged to share best practices and lessons learned over the 2019-20 school year and changes they are planning for the upcoming 2020-21 school year.
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Focus Five
Focus Five is a new addition to our Home Base Bulletin that highlights five successes PSUs have implemented within their school system to enhance remote learning.
This week we are featuring Pitt County Schools
Check out Pitt County and how they have adjusted to virtual learning!
- Virtual learning has helped fast track teachers into using Canvas. We have had this platform for six years. Until last March, we were struggling to get teachers to use it.
- Our district is now 1:1. Getting teachers to use Canvas was difficult because the devices were not in place to necessitate the need to utilize Canvas. Now that we have devices and an LMS, training with a purpose can be accomplished.
- Staff Development - Teachers are more interested in learning about digital tools and how to implement both tools and pedagogy into a virtual environment.
- Collaboration - Teachers are collaborating more than ever and sharing what they are doing. Moving so quickly to an online environment, there was a greater need to come together and divide and conquer the workload so quality content and instruction could be provided to our students. Students that are internally driven are being successful.
- Flexibility - Students/teachers have been very flexible with the situation
From Tim DeCresie, Director of Digital Learning, Pitt County Schools
Please join us in giving a shout out to Pitt County!
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