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Why has North Carolina developed Home Base?
The central focus of
READY is improving
every student’s
learning ...
…and enabling
and ensuring great
teaching is how
we get there.
One of the ways we are enabling
great teaching is by putting
powerful tools in the hands of
teachers and school leaders.
What is Home Base and what does it do?
Home Base is an online tool for teaching and learning.
Every user has one
password to enter
only one time to
access resources and
tools.
Information
Instruction
The Home Base
student information
system is
PowerSchool.
The Home Base instructional improvement
system includes a suite of standardsaligned tools to enable great teaching.
The system allows
educators to collect
key data and
manage student
information in a
secure, useful way.
Instructional
design, practice & resources
including a Learning Management System
Assessment
Data Analysis and Reporting
Home Base has two key functions:
Informational
Instructional
think:
think:
a simpler, better
information
system
a new standardsaligned tool for
instruction,
assessment, data
analysis and
professional
development
Among other things,
the information
component of
Home Base is used
for:
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Attendance
Scheduling
Grading
Transcripts
Parent and
Student Portals
Educator Effectiveness
Evaluation and Professional Development
Different users have different types of
access. For example:
Teachers can search for great lesson plans then
create classroom assessments, crunch the
resulting data to adjust instruction and
communicate progress to parents – all in Home
Base.
Principals can monitor ongoing benchmark
assessment data, compare it to mid-year
observation ratings and then access professional
development to address staff needs – all in Home
Base.
Functional Categories – The Basics
Home Base tools are designed to help you manage information and improve instruction.
Information
Instruction
In the novel, what
motivated Sarah’s
behavior? Support
your claim with
evidence from the
text.
Student
Information
and Learner
Profile
Instructional
Design, Practice
& Resources
Assessment
Data Analysis
and Reporting
Educator Effectiveness:
Evaluation and Professional
Development
Major Functions
Major Functions
Major Functions
Major Functions
Major Functions
•Attendance
•Scheduling
•Grading
•Transcripts
•Parent, Student and
Educator Portals
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•Compile and analyze
data
•Share progress with
students and colleagues
•Analyze data to take
informed action
•Record and organize NC
Educator Evaluation
System observation and
evaluation data
•Select resources aligned
to meet professional
development needs
Highlights
Portals so students,
parents and educators
can access information
Data validation tools
to make managing
student information
easier and improve
data quality
Security to make sure
only the right people
can access data
•
Find high-quality
resources based on
standards or search
criteria
Contribute to a shared
repository of North
Carolina-made
resources
Highlights
Tools for Teaching
Vetted and standardsaligned resources
Learning Management System
Built to help educators
teach, organize,
communicate and
collaborate online with
their students
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Develop aligned
assessments for
classroom or
benchmark purposes
Deliver assessments
Highlights
Highlights
Classroom & Benchmark
A rich bank of items to
build your own rigorous,
standards-aligned
assessments
Ability to create your own
items to use in your
classroom and to submit
up for other teachers to
access and use for
assessments
Integrate with
assessment tools and
student information to
deliver data on student
progress to teachers,
parents and students in an
easy-to-understand,
actionable way
Easy access to your data
and a direct, fast way to
pull it
Highlights
Professional
Development resources
aligned to the North
Carolina Educator
Evaluation Rubric
An Integrated Suite of Technology Tools
Information
Student
Information
and Learner
Profile
Information
Instruction
Instructional
Design, Practice
& Resources
Assessment
Data Analysis
and Reporting
Instructional Tools & Resources
Educator Effectiveness:
Evaluation and Professional
Development
Effectiveness
PowerSchool
Schoolnet
OpenClass
Truenorthlogic
Student
Information
Instruction
and
Assessment
Collaboration
Evaluation and PD
a student
information
system
a new standards-aligned tool for
instruction (e.g. lesson plans, unit plans),
assessment, and data analysis
an online
evaluation system
and professional
development
system
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Products being integrated to create Home Base
User
Portal
via PowerSchool
PowerSchool
Student
Information
TestNav
Summative
Assessment
Truenorthlogic
Educator
Evaluation
Core Instructional Improvement System
Schoolnet
OpenClass
Instructional
Tools and
Assessment
Collaboration
Truenorthlogic
Professional
Development (STATE)
Content in System
Tools for Teaching • Assessment Creation
Truenorthlogic
Professional
Development (LOCAL)
Initial Content
• Math, ELA, Science and Social Studies Assessment Items for
Benchmark or Classroom Assessments
• Instructional Content (e.g. lesson plans , videos, interactive
activities)
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Products being integrated to create Home Base
FREE
User
Portal
via PowerSchool
PowerSchool
Student
Information
FREE
Truenorthlogic
Educator
Evaluation
FREE
Truenorthlogic
Professional
Development (STATE)
Core Instructional Improvement System
• The required
OpenClass
Schoolnet
Collaboration
Instructional
functionalities of Home
Tools and
Assessment
Base are provided for
districts free of charge
Content in System
Tools for Teaching • Assessment Creation
Truenorthlogic
Professional
Development (LOCAL)
Initial Content
• Math, ELA, Science and Social Studies Assessment Items for
Benchmark or Classroom Assessments
• Instructional Content (e.g. lesson plans , videos, interactive
activities)
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Products being integrated to create Home Base
Instructional Improvement Tools are optional
FREE
• We believe districts will find value
in these tools
to improve
PowerSchool
User
instruction
Student
Portal
via PowerSchool
Information
• Beginning in the 2014-15 school year, districts and charter school
will pay $4/ADM to access these optional tools
FREE
Truenorthlogic
Educator
Evaluation
Core Instructional Improvement System
Schoolnet
OpenClass
Instructional
Tools and
Assessment
Collaboration
FREE
Truenorthlogic
Professional
Development (STATE)
Content in System
Tools for Teaching • Assessment Creation
Truenorthlogic
Initial Content
• Math, ELA, Science and Social Studies Assessment Items for
Benchmark or Classroom Assessments
Professional
Development (LOCAL)
• Instructional Content (e.g. lesson plans , videos, interactive
activities)
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Schoolnet Instructional Tools & Resources
•
Current
Over 28,000 Instructional Resources (lesson plans, unit plans, multi-media, etc.)
across all grades and subjects
Instructional
Resources
?
Assessment
Items
•
Future
Continued expansion of standards-aligned resources and vetted instructional
resources including collecting and sharing the best of North Carolina educators’ work
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Current
Over 36,000 items in ELA, Math, Science and Social Studies
•
Future
Continued expansion of items banks including multiple item types. Estimated totals
available for teacher and district use in the 2014-2015 School Year: 62,000+ items
•
Current
Local data from educator use of the Classrooms and Assessment Admin Modules
in Schoolnet and historical EOC and EOG data, CTE data, mClass data, and ACT
data
Data for
Dashboards
•
Future
Includes daily attendance data, discipline and select demographic data from
Student Information System (PowerSchool)
Schoolnet: Classrooms Functionality
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Instructional Resources
Present
Over 28,000
Instructional
Resources (lesson
plans, unit plans,
multi-media,etc.)
across all grades and
subjects
Future
Additional standardsaligned resources and
vetted instructional
resources, including
the best of North
Carolina educators’
work
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17,650+ Open Education Resources
Some of
our many
Content
Providers
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11,920 External Resources
8,672 Instructional Resources for Social Studies and
Science
Current
Providers of
External
Content
1,137 Instructional Resources for English Language
Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies, and World
Languages
2,111 Additional Instructional Resources in various
for Art, Music, History, etc.
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500+ NC DPI Resources
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Schoolnet: Classrooms Functionality
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Student Performance
Present
Future
Student data from
educator use of the
Schoolnet
Assessment Module
and historical EOC
and EOG data, CTE
data, mClass data,
and ACT data
Daily attendance
data, discipline and
select demographic
data from Student
Information System
(PowerSchool)
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Schoolnet: Assessment Functionality
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Assessment Items
Present
Over 36,000 items in
English Language
Arts (ELA), Math,
Science, and Social
Studies
Future
Additional items,
including multiple item
types (approximately
62,000 total items
will be available for
teacher and district
use at the start of the
2014-15 school year)
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Classroom and Benchmark
Assessment Items
(formerly in ClassScape)
Grade 3-8 ELA
English II
Grades 3-8 Math
5,453
593
11,186
Algebra I/Integrated I
2,376
Grade 5 Science
1,871
Grade 8 Science
2,297
Biology
1,635
*Total:
25,411
*Development
ongoing
These items are split into a bank for teachers to use daily for classroom
assessment purposes (Publisher = NCDPI_Classroom) and a bank that is secure
at the district level for benchmark purposes (Publisher = NCDPI_Benchmark).
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Classroom Assessment Items
(Purchased)
Classroom (non-secure) Science and
Social Studies Assessment Items
Social Studies Items
Grade 7
Grade 8
Global Geography
World History
American History I
American History II
Civics and Economics
Social Studies Total
43
17
136
551
578
349
777
2,451
Science Items
Grade 3
152
Grade 4
633
Grade 5
352
Grade 6
1,006
Grade 7
880
Grade 8
659
Physical Science
603
Biology
1,030
Chemistry
596
Physics
174
Earth & Environmental 594
Science Total
6,679
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Classroom Assessment Items
(Purchased)
Next Generation K-12 Common Core
ELA and Math Items
Already Available in Item Central
Coming Soon
Grade
ELA
Math
Grade
ELA
Math
K
40
39
K
1198
300
1
41
41
1
1198
282
2
39
41
2
1204
365
3
41
39
3
1176
458
4
38
40
4
1151
482
5
41
40
5
1179
513
6
80
160
6
1134
605
7
80
160
7
1149
535
8
80
80
8
1162
455
HS
319
2000
HS
4701
1861
Total
799
840
Total
15252
5856
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OpenClass
Collaboration and Course Management Tools
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OpenClass
Collaboration and Course Management Tools
• Offers teachers an online vehicle for organizing
course materials and sharing with students
• Offers flexible space for delivering multi-media
assignments to students, and receiving uploaded
student work
• Enables creation of collaborative documents
• Offers space for “threaded” online conversations
(student-student and teacher-student)
• Receives class roster and other student and
teacher information from PowerSchool
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Professional Development (PD)
State & Local Functionality
FREE
Truenorthlogic
Professional
Development (STATE)
• Enables all districts and charters to utilize existing
PD resources in a more sophisticated software
platform that connects Educator Evaluation to PD
• Better tracking and reporting of State-offered PD
Part of OPT-IN
Truenorthlogic
Professional
Development (LOCAL)
• Enables Opt-In districts and charters to utilize
expanded functionality to manage both State and
local-PD content, tracking, reporting, etc.
• Better tracking of State-offered and Local PD
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PD “State” Functionality
All districts and charters can…
• Search for and enroll in State-provided
instructor-led and self-paced courses (presented
in Moodle)
– Note: State-provided courses will be aligned with
teacher and leader standards (where applicable)
• Maintain a transcript (including recommended
CEUs) for State-provided courses
• View and create reports of staff transcripts
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PD “Local” Functionality
Opt-In Districts and Charters can…
• Create and manage district/charter-level instructor led and self-paced
courses in a common catalog
• Leverage built-in Moodle integration
• Provide integrated access to state-owned learning object repositories
• Choose courses to align with teacher and leader standards
• Target courses to specific participants
• Create aggregate and individual reports
• Produce course completion certificates & surveys
• Manage enrollment and participant processes, including wait lists,
courses & sections, rosters, attendance, completion, etc.
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Systems and Services Timeline
Start of School
2013-14
October November 2013
April 2014
Summer 2014
Fall/early winter
2014-15
PowerSchool
Schoolnet
OpenClass
Educator Evaluation (for teachers)
Educator Evaluation (for principals)
Professional Development
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Minimum Technical Requirements
The Minimum Technical Specifications
document is updated as needed. Please visit
the link below to find the most current version
of this document:
http://www.ncpublicschools.org/homebase/gettingready/implementation/category?category=Technical%2
0Requirements
Home Base Website and Updates
•Home Base website is
http://www.ncpublicschools.org/homebase/
•To sign up for Home Base Biweekly Newsletter, please email
home_base_ready@dpi.nc.gov as ask to be placed on the
newsletter listserv, or self-subscribe at http://goo.gl/appdp
•We will continue to email the biweekly updates, but you can
also find them archived on the Home Base website at
http://www.ncpublicschools.org/homebase/updates/biweekly/?
year=2014
Contact: HBSC
homebase.incidents@its.nc.gov
• You can email the Home Base Support Center
(HBSC) with your questions about Home Base.
Questions will be logged into Remedy for assistance.
• Support personnel provide the answer, research or
assign to the appropriate area for resolution; keep in
mind, each region has a dedicated support staff
member
• Incidents are categorized for statistical reporting to aid
in identifying problem areas as well as providing a
knowledge base
• If you have a question that is not about the system,
implementation or training, you may contact the Home
Base staff at home_base_ready@dpi.nc.gov
Regional Support
HBSC Mini-Teams
Call: 919.807.4357
email: homebase.incidents@its.nc.gov
Region
HBSC
PowerSchool
HBSC
SchoolNet
Region 1 – Northeast
Christie Newkirk
Cheri Arthur
Region 2 – Southeast
Bonita Chasten
Cheri Arthur
Region 3 – North Central
Michelle Gresham
LaKesha Williams
Region 4 – South Central
Walt Raif
LaKesha Williams
Region 5 – Piedmont-Triad
Evelyn Herbin
Tiffany Strickland
Region 6 – Southwest
Gail Veach
Tiffany Strickland
Region 7 – Northwest
Tessa Parkerl
Emily Kline
Region 8 - Western
Maurice Jordan
Emily Kline
Wake
Penny May
LaKesha Williams
Cumberland/WSF/Guilford
Gwen Bissette
LaKesha Williams