School website guidance
After many requests for website guidance, OCS has created a website checklist/self-audit tool that will allow schools to review their own website and determine where revisions or improvements need to take place. This tool will be linked in future newsletters and on the OCS website as a resource.Please click here to create a copy of the tool and utilize/revise as needed for your school. We hope this is helpful and welcome any feedback you may have.
Interested in identifying and providing services for gifted students?
Now is the time to consider developing a Local AIG Plan for the 2025-2028 plan cycle. The Office of Advanced Learning and Gifted Education will begin offering various supports for developing the 2025-2028 local AIG Plan at the beginning of the 2024-2025 school year. If you do not currently have an AIG plan submitted to NCDPI and are interested in beginning this process, please contact Dr. Crissy Brown at crissy.brown@dpi.nc.gov for more information. You are also invited to join a live Charter School AIG Information Q&A on Thursday, July 25th, from 10:00 to 11:00. Click here to join the Q&A.
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The FBS website continues to be updated with information related to School Business and our ongoing operations. Please check the FBS homepage regularly for updates. Please review the upcoming deadlines for due dates.
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Salary Audit Exceptions - IPCs Only
The DPI BUD system is no longer active. The online BUD for the salary audit exceptions ended July 3rd.
Prior year salary audit exceptions (FY2023-24) can be corrected by submitting a paper 202 to Salary@dpi.nc.gov. The 202 Form has been posted to the What's New section. Further instructions are to follow on prior year refunds. Thank you for your patience and understanding.
PSU Cash Application Information for Ordering Federal Cash – All PSUs
Thank you for those PSUs who were able to join us for one of the webinars this week. For those of you who missed it, a prerecorded webinar will be posted to the website on the Cash Management page. The guidance document for ordering federal cash is now available on this page and under the What’s New section on the Financial and Business Services website.
For questions, please contact CashMgt@dpi.nc.gov.
School Business Services Summer Conference Registration
Reminder to register for our Summer Conference. We have the session topics as well as the
registration and payment links under our What's New section. all registered participants will receive an email with an opportunity to see all sessions in the conference app. No paper packets will be provided, and you will only pick up a name tag on the day of the conference. We look forward to seeing everyone there.
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New Cash Application Webinars
School Business will be hosting the following webinars on the new Cash application:
Please have a representative from your PSU attend at least one session. It will be recorded for those that cannot attend.
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2024 School-Based Mental Health Policy Report
Dear Charter School Contact,
In accordance with North Carolina SL 2019-245 and SL 2020-7 and with State Board of Education Policy SHLT-003, each K-12 school unit is required to upload a copy of their School Mental Health Improvement Plan and answer questions in the School Mental Health Policy Report.
In the online reporting portal, you will indicate that you are a charter school, and you will be directed to the SMH policy questions. To make it easier for you to assemble your report information prior to going online, a Word version and PDF of the online survey is attached to this email. Please complete the online survey to submit your report.
The survey platform is setup to allow respondents to leave the survey and resume their progress later, so long as they return on the same browser where they started the survey and do not wait longer than a month to return to the survey. This feature works by placing a cookie on the respondent’s browser that keeps track of the survey progress.
The information needed to complete the SMH 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, 2024.
You can access the reporting portal through the link below.
2024 Healthy Active Children Policy Progress Report / School-Based Mental Health Policy Report
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.
NCDPI Joint Statement on Approval of Arts Education and World Languages Standards
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The Office of Academic Standards is proud to announce the approval of the 2024 North Carolina Standard Course of Study for K-12 Arts Education and K-12 World Languages. The newly approved K-12 Arts standards aim to provide a Comprehensive Arts Education while developing students as artists in the fields of Dance, Music, Theatre, and Visual Arts, and the K-12 World Languages standards are intended to cultivate proficiency and intercultural competence in a classical, heritage, or modern language and help develop globally collaborative students.
Key features of the 2024 North Carolina Standard Course of Study for K-12 Arts:
- ALL four arts disciplines are now aligned to the National Arts Standards strands of Connect, Create, Present, and Respond
- Continuous Throughlines ensuring vertical alignment of K-12 objectives
- To remove confusion about the “Proficient” level of the proficiency based standards and align with the National Standards this level has been renamed “Accomplished”
- In Theatre Arts, Technical Theatre courses have been added in both non-honors and honors levels
- K-8 General Music standards are extended into high school in both non-honors and honors levels
- Five proficiency levels of Vocal and Instrumental Music have been created for students exploring band, choir, orchestra, piano, ukulele, guitar, or other instruments and ensembles
Key features of the 2024 North Carolina Standard Course of Study for World Languages include:
- Objectives organized by proficiency level using the ACTFL proficiency scale
- Streamlined strand structure and objectives, including a new Intercultural and Communities Connections (ICC) strand
- Reordered standards emphasizing target language input and output
- Inclusion of the Advanced High proficiency level increasing the rigor of student outcomes
Note: The current 2010 Arts Standard Course of Study and 2010 World Languages Standard Course of Study will remain in place for classroom instruction and assessment for the 2024-2025 school year.
Please see the Arts Crosswalks for Dance, Music, Theatre, and Visual Arts located on the Arts Education resource hub, and the World Languages Crosswalk for a general comparison of the current and newly adopted Standard Course of Study. They provide initial insight into similarities and differences between these sets of standards.
Public School Units (PSUs) are expected to implement the 2024 North Carolina Standard Course of Study for Arts and World Languages starting in the 2025-2026 school year. Professional learning and resources to support PSU implementation will begin to be shared in fall 2024.
The NCDPI Arts and World Languages Teams express their gratitude to the educators, language experts, and community members who contributed to the development of these standards. Their collaboration and expertise have been crucial to ensure the standards set expectations that will allow students to be innovative thinkers and competitive in post-secondary pursuits-- college, career, or military-- and throughout their lives.
For resources and more information about K-12 Arts, please visit the NCDPI Arts Education webpage and resource hub or contact Brandon Roeder or Dr. Laura Stauderman, Arts Education Consultants.
For resources and more information about K-12 World Languages, please visit the NCDPI World Languages webpage and resources hub or contact Dr. Ann Marie Gunter, World Languages Consultant.
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RISE 2024 Registration
Registration is open for the 2024 RISE Back to School Safety Summit. The Center for Safer Schools’ signature event will be held from Monday, July 29 to Friday, Aug. 2 at Cape Fear Community College in Wilmington.
RISE training focuses on the Resiliency, Information, Support and Empowerment needed when supporting children and adolescents in schools and communities. This training offers a variety of information sessions to participants covering the areas of bullying, suicide, opioid and substance use, critical incidents and other vital information about trauma and victimization among children and adolescents, and how these various dynamics impact school climate and school safety.
New for RISE 2024 is a parent/student component, which will be held (by invitation only) during the last two days of the summit. Training sessions will not be recorded and are closed to the media. However, media representatives are invited to attend on the opening day.
Follow the CFSS on social media for more details as they become available.
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Charter School Virtual Math Standards Focus Group
The Home Base Opt-in Process is Open
The NC Department of Public Instruction is pleased to announce that the Home Base Opt-in Process is now open. Click on the following link to see the full announcement and share with the appropriate staff: hb_pricing_memo 2024-25.
Note: Only finance officers and charter directors/principals should opt-in for their PSU.
Please visit the NCDPI Home Base Opt-in Website for detailed information concerning the Home Base Opt-in Process. Questions may be directed to jennifer.causey@dpi.nc.gov or home_base@dpi.nc.gov.
Human Capital Monthly Webinars held by the Office of Licensure and Educator Preparation
Hosted by Dr. Tom Tomberlin, Senior Director, Educator Preparation, Licensure, and Performance, NCDPI
Dates:
August 5 (Monday)
September 6
October 4
November 8
December 6
Time: 10:30-11:30am
Virtual Link:
Kim Evans' Personal Room
Important MEMOs:
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