Attendance During Exam Week(s)

To be considered in attendance, a student (except for hospital/homebound or staggered kindergarten) must be present in the school for the school day or at a place other than the school with the approval of the appropriate school official for the purpose of attending an authorized school activity. Such activities may include field trips, athletic contests, student conventions, musical festivals, or any similar approved activity.

Except as noted above, a student must be present at least one-half of the school's instructional day in order to be recorded present for that day.

NC General Statute 115C-378 states in part that no person shall encourage, entice, or counsel any child of compulsory school age to be unlawfully absent from school.

If a student is exempted from an exam and is not present in the school for the school day or not at a place other than the school with the approval of the appropriate school official for the purpose of attending an authorized school activity, the student is absent.

For questions or concerns, contact Student Accounting at studentaccounting@dpi.nc.gov.

Read-to-Achieve Update - 01/07/2022

Please read and share the latest Read-to-Achieve Update dated 01/07/2022.

Read-to-Achieve - 01/07/2022

Canvas and SIS Sync

We believe that the issues for the SIF Agent for the PowerSchool to Canvas sync have been resolved. Please check in Canvas to see if a SIS sync occurred last night. You can do this by going under the Admin Icon on the left > PSU name > SIS Import. Below the “Last Batch” heading will show the most recent sync date and any errors.

If the Canvas and SIS sync did not take place, please inform the Canvas team and Corey McNeill (corey.mcneill@dpi.nc.gov) for further investigation.

OCR/CRDC - Federal Submission Upload Delayed

Please share with other staff as appropriate.

Note:  PSUs which were not open in the school year 2020-2021 are not required to participate in this collection.

Do Not Log into the Federal Submission Tool

NCDPI has not completed the upload to the Federal Submission Tool.  Do not access the Federal Submission Tool until the process has been completed.  Notification of status will be sent Monday, January 10, 2022.

We apologize for the inconvenience this may cause PSUs.

Do not add data to the system until notified that NCDPI has completed the transfer of CRDC data to the Federal Portal. 

Please submit questions or issues as soon as possible to Terra Dominguez at terra.dominguez@dpi.nc.gov.

Reminder:  New Technical Contact PowerSchool IPT Certification in March 2022

In collaboration with PowerSchool, the Home Base Team will be offering virtual IPT certification training for new technical contacts from March 7-11, 2022: 

• This training session does have limited capacity and seats are based on eligibility.
• This training will span five full days. 
• Participants will have 90 days to take and pass the certification test after training. 
• Each PSU is allowed a certain number of technical contacts based on their ADM. 

If you are unsure of your current technical contacts, please contact NC PowerSchool Support at 1-855-339-4790.
 

NCDPI has created an IPT FAQ document to help answer questions you may have. Please review this document for frequently asked questions about the training and certification.

Those eligible to attend the DPI offered IPT Training include: 

• Anyone who is replacing a certified technical contact for their PSU as of 7/1/2021.
• A local charter school employee, not employed by a third-party company and has not previously attended IPT training.

Those who cannot attend this training are: 

• Third-party Charter school SIS management company employees
• PSUs wanting additional technical contacts above their desired allocation
• Anyone who has attended training previously. 

Note: Anyone who is not eligible for this training will need to arrange training and certification through the vendor, PowerSchool, and cover the cost incurred. To do so, please reach out to the PowerSchool training team, training@powerschool.com. 
  

Those who are eligible for this training session, please fill out the registration form.
Registration Form: https://bit.ly/FebIPT2022 

**Registration will close COB Friday, February 18, 2022 or sooner if the max number of attendees is reached.

Webinars for Pearson Transcend

Pearson Transcend is an optional add-on component of Schoolnet that enables computer-adaptive benchmark testing customized to local PSU pacing guides. Currently, Transcend offers benchmarking tools for grades 3-8 ELA and Math.

After a two year pilot period, NCDPI and Pearson are excited to announce that Transcend will exit the pilot stage in the 2022-2023 school year. Transcend will be available to NC public school units for $4 per 3rd-8th grade ADM (Home Base opt-in required).

If you or other leaders within your PSU would like to learn more about Transcend, we have scheduled two informational webinars. These will be recorded and posted for those who are unable to attend. Please see below for dates, times, and registration links. Feel free to reach out to john.mairs@dpi.nc.gov or jeffrey.hauger@pearson.com if you’d like to speak to someone about Transcend for your PSU in detail.

• Wednesday, January 12, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.
• Registration
• Tuesday, January 18, from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m.
• Registration

NCEES Winter/Spring Webinars

Please click on the titles below to register for the upcoming NCEES Webinars which are held most Tuesdays from 4-5 p.m.  A certificate to turn into your PSU for approval of .1 -.15 CEUs will be provided to participants that complete the feedback survey at the end of each live session.

• 2/1/2022        
• District Admin Creating Ad-Hoc Reports (1.5 hr)
• Target Audience: Staff with NCEES District Administrator Admin type
• 2/15/2022     
• Deep Dive into PD Playlists in NCEES (1.5 hr)   
• Target Audience: Professional Development leads with access to NCEES. Staff assigned in NCEES as PD Playlist Moderators.
• 2/22/2022     
• Export a Plan to PDF reports for District Administrators in NCEES (1.5 hr)
•  Target Audience: Staff with NCEES District Administrator Admin type.
• 3/4/2022  NCTIES    
• Presentation: Growth, Goals & Credits in NCEES
• NCTies Registration    
• Target Audience: Staff in NCEES
•  3/8/2022        
• End of Year Principal Evaluation Processes (1 hr)
• Target Audience: Superintendents/Directors (evaluators of Principals) Principals, APs, Evaluators
•  3/15/2022     
• End of Year Teacher/Support Staff Evaluation & PDP processes (1 hr)
• Target Audience: Teachers and Support Staff. Evaluators and Observers of Teachers/Support Staff.

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NCDPI Technology Support Center

NCDPI's Technology Support Center continues to meet your support needs for:

• Schoolnet 
• NCEES/Unified Talent 
• Staff & Student UID (eScholar)

Support availability:

Web (NEW URL):  https://ncgov.servicenowservices.com/sp_dpi   -  24/7

Phone:  919-716-1840, Monday - Friday, 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. (excluding state holidays)

Technical support for SIS needs is handled directly by PowerSchool support using chat, phone, or by opening a case ticket.