My fellowship is with DPI. This summer, our student informational system called NCWISE is being replaced by Home Base. Home Base has three pieces to it:
- PowerSchools: This is where grades and student information is housed. Parents can also access grades from here
- Truenorthlogic: This houses the McREL Teacher Evalluation that we have been using. The process and rubric are the same, just in a different place.
- SchoolNet: a collaborative piece that allows teachers to keep all their lessons and documents in one place and allows teachers to search for vetted resources that were freely available online
Our fellowship group consists of 8 teachers in non-core subjects: music, art, world languages, agriculture, CTE and ESL. We have the very important job of making SchoolNet a useful resource for more than just core teachers. I’m very glad that DPI has chosen to seek the expertise of teachers that are usually underrepresented in state-wide initiatives.
Our mentors from DPI, LaVerne Weldon and Carmela Fair, along with the content management team from CUACS (the Center for Urban Affairs and Community Services), Phyllis Laughlin, Lessie Anderson and Renee Duckenfield, have trained us on how to evaluate and upload resources into Home Base for teachers to use in the coming year.