DUE SEPTEMBER 15: 2022 School Mental Health Policy Report
Dear Charter School Leaders,
All charter schools are required to report their progress on meeting the guidelines set forth by the NC State Board of Education's SHLT-003:School-Based Mental Health (SBMH) Policy. We have included the required reporting questions in the Healthy Active Children's (HAC) policy report, and you will be able to complete your report online. In the online reporting portal, you will indicate that you are a charter school, and you will be directed to the SBMH policy questions. To make it easier for you to assemble your report information prior to going online, a Word version of the online survey is attached to this email. Please complete the online survey to submit your report.
The information needed to complete the SBMH progress report will come from your School Mental Health Improvement Plan, which is required to upload and must include the mental health training program and suicide risk referral protocol.
Please note the deadline to complete the HAC Progress Report / School Mental Health Policy Report is September 15, 2022.
You can access the reporting portal through the link below.
If you have questions or challenges in completing this online survey, please contact Les Spell at Les.Spell@dpi.nc.gov.
We appreciate the time and energy spent in completing this report and look forward to reading each submission. The Healthy Active Children Report / School Mental Health Policy Report is a valuable tool in efforts to provide quality school health systems that will raise academic achievement and promote physical and mental health among North Carolina’s schoolchildren.
Thanks for all you do.
Les
Les Spell
Data & Policy Consultant
Division of Academic Standards
NC Department of Public Instruction
(W) 984-236-2815
Les.Spell@dpi.nc.gov
School Business – August Updates
From Exceptional Children
IMPORTANT: Funding Study Survey
On Friday, July 22nd, you received a notice in the School Business newsletter from the Office of Exceptional Children with information regarding the funding studying being conducted by Research Triangle Institute (RTI International). Please review that communication from our office for the full impact of this study. RTI would like feedback from local EC directors and finance officers and have provided the following link to the survey. This survey will be open until COB on August 9th. Thank you in advance for making time to complete this most important survey.
Have questions about student health requirements? Counseling? Healthy schools in general? The NC Healthy Schools staff can help …
Sarah Blanton, Healthy Schools Consultant
Kisha Bryant, School Counseling Consultant
Ellen Essick, Section Chief
Burt Jenkins, Healthful Living / Athletics Consultant
Pachovia Lovett, School Social Work Consultant
Lillian Pinto, Reproductive Health Consultant
Susanne Schmal, School Health Partnerships & Policy Consultant
Les Spell, Data and Policy Consultant
OCR/CRDC - SY2022-2023 - CRDC Contacts in EDDIE
Dear Coordinators,
Please share with other staff as appropriate. Read this message carefully.
The Office of Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) will be conducted in the 2022-2023 school year. Data for the collection is from the previous year (School Year 2021-2022).
To date, the Federal government has not published an official start date. The NCDPI will notify PSUs once an announcement has been made.
Note: PSUs which were not open in the school year 2021-2022 are not required to participate in this collection.
CRDC Contacts in EDDIE
This week, NCDPI will make the following updates to the EDDIE system to prepare for communications regarding the coming collection:
· All past Office of Civil Rights Coordinator contacts have been deleted from the EDDIE system.
· The EDDIE Staff Role name has been updated from ‘Office of Civil Rights Coordinator’ to ‘CRDC Coordinator’.
· PSUs may record up to two CRDC Coordinator staff roles only.
Beginning August 8, 2022, please record two staff members who have been identified as the CRDC Coordinator. These staff will be the technical contacts for the CRDC.
PSUs are also strongly advised to verify or update the Student Information Coordinator contact in the EDDIE system.
CRDC Coordinator Responsibilities:
1. Serve as the technical contacts
2. Review data collected by NCDPI on behalf of the PSUs before the federal submission
3. Add and correct data in the CRDC Federal Submission Tool
4. Certify the data collection in the CRDC Federal Submission Tool
Instructions for creating Staff Entries (Roles) in EDDIE are in the Help Using EDDIE section of the NCDPI website.
Please contact Terra Dominguez at terra.dominguez@dpi.nc.gov with any questions you may have.
Discipline, Dropout, and ALPS data coordinator contact information
DISCIPLINE DATA
With the start of the 2022-2023 school year, NCDPI would like to make sure that we have the most accurate contact information for your PSU’s discipline data coordinator.
ALTERNATIVE LEARNING PROGRAMS & SCHOOLS (ALPS)
With the start of the 2022-2023 school year, NCDPI would like to make sure that we have the most accurate contact information for your PSU’s ALPS data coordinator.
With the start of the 2022-2023 school year, NCDPI would like to make sure that we have the most accurate contact information for your PSU’s dropout data coordinator.
The NC Digital Learning & Media Inventory (DLMI) is due Sep 30, 2022.
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All PSUs (LEA, Charter, Lab, Regional) must complete the DLMI annually.
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Remember that this data feeds into the NC School Report Card, the Office of Civil Rights Report, and the new Digital Dashboard required by legislation.
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For your data to be on this year’s School Report Card, it MUST be input into the DLMI system by the Sept 30 deadline because we must submit the SRC data the following week.
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Charter, Regional, Lab schools must complete the PSU level as well as the School level, therefore need to request PSU admin access.
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Please see the 2022 NCDLMI Training Deck for directions and links.
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Contact your regional consultant for further assistance.
COVID Updates
The StrongSchools NC Public Health Toolkit was sunsetted on June 23, 2022. Please see the updated guidance linked here: https://covid19.ncdhhs.gov/media/164/open.
As such, schools are no longer are required to vote monthly re: masking policy. Regarding covid quarantines – those should be treated as excused absences like any other physical illness. You are not required to provide remote learning during a quarantine. If your school decides to provide some type of remote learning during quarantines of individual students, that is your individual school’s decision. The policy should be the same as any other time a student is out for illness, such as the flu or chicken pox. In most cases, schools will communicate with the student and send work home/online assignments to keep up with the curriculum rather than offering remote learning.
Important MEMOs:
MEMO: 2022–23 Annual Testing Program and Accountability Requirements
Thoroughly read the linked memo, 2022–23 Annual Testing Program and Accountability Requirements, from Dr. Michael Maher and Dr. Tammy Howard.
New NCEES Information and Resources Site
The North Carolina Educator Evaluation System has a new public site, https://bit.ly/ncees-resources.
This site houses NCEES information and resources to support all educator evaluations in North Carolina. If you cannot find the resource(s) you are searching for, please email: EducatorEffectiveness@dpi.nc.gov.
The NCEES Google Site was discontinued on June 30, 2022. Please bookmark the new site, https://bit.ly/ncees-resources, and share this information with your NCEES system users.
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EC ANNOUNCEMENTS |
Please review the attached EC Division communication updates and Guidance.
Calling ALL EL Data Stakeholders!
Are you relatively new to English Learner (EL) identification, EL Data in PowerSchool, the Home Language Survey process, and other critical elements for EL data? In that case, register now for these upcoming sessions. We recommend this for anyone with less than three years of working with multilingual learners, EL data, and PowerSchool. Choose the session that works best for you.
August 10th from 9:00-11:30 am - Registration
September 12th from 9:00 - 11:30 am - Registration
New DOE Guidance:
Office of Charter Schools (OCS) Updates
Planning Year 22-23 newsletter announcement and September registration for applicant schools:
Planning Year Calendar 2022-2023
The Office of Charter Schools is pleased to release the dates for the 2022-2023 Planning Year Professional Development calendar. All schools (boards and school leaders) in the Ready to Open process are required to attend five (5) planning year sessions as well as the New Charter Leaders Institute in June, 2023, as part of the successful completion of the Ready to Open and Planning Year process. Registration is for Planning Year/RTO schools only.
2023 Burroughs Wellcome Fund NC Teacher of the Year Nomination Process
The Burroughs Wellcome Fund NC Teacher of the Year is recognized at the school, regional, and statewide levels. Individual public charter schools nominate a Teacher of the Year who participates in a selection process facilitated by the Office of Charter Schools at the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. Once the charter school nomination processes are completed, the teacher finalists vie as one of the state’s nine Regional Teachers of the Year. [The state is divided into eight geographical regions and NC Charter Schools are clustered together to form the ninth region of the state. The Charter School Teacher of the Year joins the Regional Teachers of the Year team as a finalist for the state Teacher of the Year]. This selection process is facilitated in each region by Regional Education Facilitators. If you need additional information please reach out to your Regional Educator Facilitator or Dr. Sonja Brown at Sonja.Brown@dpi.nc.gov Please remember to nominate your school's Teacher of the Year.
 The NC ACCESS Program is offering two amazing (and FREE) development opportunities for charter school leaders and teachers during the 2022-23 school year. Visit ncaccessprogram.com/learn for more information.
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Science of Reading (LETRS) Training for 200 teachers and 100 administrators. NC ACCESS is partnering with Lexia Learning to provide the same LETRS training that the state is offering to traditional public schools.
- The ACCESS Fellowship for 100 charter school leaders. To-date, this intensive development institute has only been available to NC ACCESS subgrantees. This year, it is open to all. Apply today!
NC ACCESS Aspiring Minority School Leaders Program
Are you looking for School Leaders?
The North Carolina Advancing Charter Collaboration and Excellence for Student Success (NC ACCESS) grant program in the Office of Charter Schools was excited to embark on the Aspiring Minority School Leaders Program in collaboration with Appalachian State University. The Aspiring Minority School Leaders Program was designed to recruit, support, and build a pipeline of minority school leaders prepared to meet the challenges of leading schools. North Carolina charter schools will benefit by having access to a cohort of school leaders of color and women who are exceptionally trained, ready to be part of innovative school reform initiatives, and ready to move into leadership positions with strengthened organizational and instructional leadership skills.
We are proud to announce that we have twelve completers from the program. All have a Master’s Degree and years of school-based experience. If you are actively looking to fill certified school leadership positions, please send your listing to Dr. Barbara O’Neal in the Office of Charter Schools at barbara.oneal@dpi.nc.gov. I will send your position notices to the program completers.
Note: This special effort to inform this group of twelve does not replace the normal process of sending open positions notices to the OCS Newsletter, please continue to send them your position notices. Questions, please feel free to contact me at the same email address.
NC Virtual Webinar for District/Charter Leaders
Dear Charter Leaders,
Please join NC Virtual for a webinar geared towards district leadership.
In this webinar, you will discover how to utilize the programs and resources offered by NC Virtual in a district setting. You may be familiar with NC Virtual's high-quality instruction and QM-certified courses, but you may not be as familiar with its intervention program, Partnership Course Program, Peer Tutoring Center, flexible funding, or whole-class enrollment option, which may be of value in instances of teacher loss.
NC Virtual Staff will share how to partner with districts as a solution that helps resolve a district’s individual or unique enrollment needs.
The webinar titled “Leveraging NC Virtual: A Resource for NC District Leaders” will be held twice:
- August 15 at 9 a.m.
- August 16 at 11 a.m.
We encourage you to register here.
Thank you for all you do to support North Carolina students.
Other Resources from DPI
Charter School Job Postings
EFFECTIVE NEXT WEEK, 8/16/22, WE WILL REMOVE THE JOB POSTINGS TO ENSURE WE HAVE ACCURATE/AVAILABLE POSITIONS LISTED. IF YOU WOULD LIKE YOUR POSTING TO REMAIN, PLEASE EMAIL JOSEPH.LETTERIO@DPI.NC.GOV.
Whom Should I Contact at the Office of Charter Schools?
OCS Main Number: (984) 236-2700 / Email: ocs@dpi.nc.gov
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