i-Ready
Celebrating growth with students and families: After the second diagnostic is a perfect time to celebrate i-Ready growth with both students and families. Use public announcements, bulletin boards, certificates, communication home or rewards to highlight when a student or class has reached a goal and/or made progress. Celebrating growth, rather than just a fixed end goal, provides an opportunity to acknowledge students who may not usually get recognized for academic success. Below are some resources that can be used to celebrate with students and families:
- Student Certificates of Achievement
- Recognition Postcards
- Bulletin Board Banners
- Student Data Trackers, Pledge Sheets, and Learning Reflections
- Class Data Trackers
- Printable Wall Art Banner and Sticky Notes
- Communication Templates to Families
- Family Resource: Understanding Your Student’s i-Ready Diagnostic Results
Let's Get Certified!
CCTE solicits your support as we work with teachers to meet the 10,000 (10K) certification goal. We are asking all Middle and High School Administrators to revisit the CCTE Industry Certification Testing schedule and work with CCTE educators to ensure that all students are tested by the set deadline.
Advisors will be available via the Certification Help Desk each Thursday from 3:30 – 4:30 pm for educators with individual certification needs. The Help Desk TEAMS meeting link is available via the weekly CCTE Monday updates.
Reach out to your school-level CCTE Advisor for any needed support.
Meeting ID: 225 058 287 16
Passcode: hX43PP
Reminder: February 24, 2023
SART No Show Follow Up
Just as a reminder, if a parent/guardian does not attend the scheduled SART meeting, schools must conduct a follow-up SART meeting by phone (or in person if the parent agrees to come to an in-person meeting). When you conduct a follow-up SART meeting after a No Show, please implement the following:
- Enter the SART meeting in PowerSchool with the date the SART meeting was held
- Remove the No Show log entry
- Enter the PSAP in Incident Management
If you are still unable to reach the parent, the meeting remains a No Show and no PSAP is completed.
If you have any questions or need support, please email Thomasena Stuckett at stucketttd@scsk12.org.
ReThink - SEL
Please see the Rethink Ed inclement weather information for the remainder of the month.
Steps on requesting a DHA Hearing
Please provide the parent with the Official Notice of Out of School Suspension along with DHA Request Link or tell the parent that they can contact the SEED Department at 901-416-6007 and clerical personnel will email the parent the link upon request.
Parents are being told they have 10 school days to request a DHA hearing, that is NOT correct. Parents must request a hearing within 5 school days of the suspension. If they request a hearing after the 5th day, we will encourage them to contact the Alternative School Office to begin the orientation process at 901-416-2200.
Media Contacts
Greetings Principals,
Memphis-Shelby County Schools recognize the responsibility of the news media to provide accurate and timely information; however, we are obligated to protect the privacy of students and employees. If you are contacted by the media, use the necessary Media Contacts protocol outlined in the AOSS Manual.
Reminder: February 24, 2023
SCHOOL UPLIFT
School Uplift is a no-cost program from your local power company and TVA EnergyRight® that can help your school achieve energy savings through behavior-based training and grants that help the entire school community – from faculty and staff to students – adopt easy energy-saving behaviors that will make the school more energy efficient and comfortable. Click below to learn more about this initiative.
Central Office Professional Learning Series-February 2023
The February session for the Central Office Professional Learning Series will be held on February 22nd. Central Office managers, directors, executive directors, assistant superintendents, and chiefs are encouraged to register in PLZ using course #31731 for either the morning or afternoon session for the February training.
Access Flyer Here: 
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If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Tari Harris, Director of Program Leadership (harristc1@scsk12.org).
MSCS Drug Prevention and Education Campaign
We are excited to announce MSCS' drug prevention and education campaign, “You Don’t Want The Smoke” & “Be Smart, Don’t Start.” The campaign's purpose is to empower students to choose a happy and healthy lifestyle that will help them reach their highest potential.
During the weeks of Feb. 27 – March 10, schools will mobilize students, staff, parents, and the community to help students understand the risk, feel comfortable with asking questions, and learn how to refuse opportunities among peers.
We will share the detailed plan on Monday, Feb. 20 to help promote the District's Drug-Free Campaign among all schools.
Items will include:
- All Call for Student Submissions
- School Expectations & Staff Responsibilities
- Rethink Drug-Free Lessons
- Sample Schoolwide Activities
- Resources
Contact Dr. Sherenda Moss or Dr. Constance Certion for more information.
Show Me the "Write" Way Virtual Zone Sessions
Show Me the “Write” Way Virtual Zone Sessions will be held Feb. 20-23 by zone virtually. Participants are asked to register in PLZ using course code 33136. Links will be shared via email.
If you need support, please email Tiffany Boyle, boyletd@scsk12.org or Emily Vuoso, vuosoeb@scsk12.org.
Reminder: February 17, 2023
PowerBI Dashboard Releases and Updates
The MSCS Compass is a new one-stop shop for all your PowerBI reports, including the new and improved Student Profile, which is now called Student Data 360. Watch our introduction and navigation video here - Intro to MSCS Compass
What’s in PowerBI? Check out all of the reports we have available, here.
NEW Releases and Features:
Check out our release plan, available here!
Reports that are now available:
- Advanced Course Scheduling - Use this dashboard as part of the Master Scheduling process and easily identify students for enrollment in honors, AP, IB, DE, and DC courses.
- Student Surveys – Insight and District Quick Report – Use this dashboard to easily pull Insight School Climate Survey data at the Domain and Prompt level. And to see change in ratings over time.
Coming Soon!
- RTI-A – Student Progress - (New report)
- OAG Compliance report in Student Grades
- Ready Grad – updated ASVAB data
System Optimizations: Student Data 360 reports have been optimized to load at a much faster rate. These include:
- Student Attendance – Current Load Time: 00.05.42 seconds
- Student Assessment – Current Load Time: 00.05.89 seconds
- Student Discipline – Current Load Time: 00.07.68 seconds
- Student Enrollment – Current Load Time: 00.06.47 seconds
- Student Grades – Current Load Time: 00.07.39 seconds
- Student Snapshot – Current Load Time: 00.03.63 seconds
- Student Surveys – Current Load Time: 00.04.40 seconds
We are working on optimizing performance on as many reports as possible and your feedback is crucial. Please reach out if you experience any issues so that we can identify major pain points. Email us at DAIMSUPPORT@scsk12.org
Trainings:
Virtual Office Hours
- This week (2/21 and 2/23), we will discuss the new Advanced Course Scheduling Dashboard. Check out the overview video here! And the user guides here!
- Next week (2/28 and 3/2) – we will have an Open Floor Q&A session. Bring your questions!
- VOH is held every week on Tuesday and Thursday at 3:30 PM
- The format alternates every other week between an Open Floor Q&A session and an overview of a new and/or relevant report.
- Recordings of any tutorials go out to everyone on the calendar invite and will be available on our Support Page.
- Sign up at this link today!
Under Construction:
Does something in a dashboard look wrong? Check our Data Quality Updates.
ATTENTION Counselors: We need your help! Please go in and check your intervention plans in BrightBytes and remove the “Protected” access flag. This is very important and impacts the ability to see accurate RTI-B compliance and Progressive Discipline information in PowerBI.
For more information on how to remove the Protected flag, look here.
Support:
Power BI Access Principals can give school staff members access through the PowerBI Access App. If you see someone in the Access App that should be removed from your school, contact DAIM Support (DAIMSUPPORT@scsk12.org) and we can assist.
Support Resources Check out the DAIM Support SharePoint site, complete with additional video tutorials, walkthrough guides, and more!
NIE MID-YEAR CONFERENCE DEADLINE EXTENDED!
The EXTENDED deadline to complete ALL NIE Mid-Year Conferences in PLZ is February 23rd.
IMPORTANT REMINDERS:
- The Goal Setting Conference should be completed within 30 days of an NIE employee’s contract start date AND should be completed BEFORE completing the Mid-Year Conference in PLZ.
- The Mid-Year Conference is NOT required for NIE Partial plans and will not appear as a container to complete.
- Need a refresher? The following resources can also be found in PLZ under the Resources tab.
Questions? Please reach out to eps@scsk12.org.
TEM Update
REMINDER: 60% of Total Observations should be completed by March 3rd.