Have you often wanted to understand circles? How to build relationships with students? How to conduct meetings to resolve conflicts? The Equity Discipline & Intervention Team will present an interactive circle training. Please register in PLZ. 

69060 Restorative Practices Training       

Wednesday, July 19, 2023 - 9:00am - 3:00pm

Kelvin B Hart - HARTKB@SCSK12.ORG

Location:  Teacher and Learning Academy             

                  2485 Union Avenue

                  Memphis, Tennessee 38112 

Please complete the EDI- Survey (only 3 mins). Also, complete the RTI2-B documents by July 31st. Informational sheets with hyperlinks are below:

RTI2-B Tier 1 Team Creation Guidance Recommendations 

RTI2-B Tier 2 Team Creation Guidance Recommendations

The Tennessee Code Annotated has been revised to include Threats of Mass Shootings as Zero Tolerance Category (A) Offenses that will now mandated 180 days of suspension at the school level. Please ensure that you satisfy your RTI2-B Tier 1 expectations by communicating this change in law to your student and parent populations. We want to ensure that students are aware of the disciplinary responses connected to Threats of Mass Shootings that are connected to the school environment.

If you have questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to Dr. Blocker by emailing BLOCKERJ@scsk12.org.

The Year-End Process (YEP) rollover is scheduled to take place soon. To facilitate this process, please verify that all of your Optional students are projected to the appropriate school no later than Thursday, July 6. 

- For students who have been approved to attend your school, please verify that your school is the school selected as the Next School Indicator (under the link Schedule Set Up). 

- For students who did not meet the requirements and were not approved, please verify that the zoned school is selected as the Next School Indicator. 

- You can pull a list of your approved and not approved dispositions from Enterprise Reports, copy those student numbers and paste them into the Multi-Select for student search. From there, you can scroll student by student verifying their information on the Schedule Set Up page. 

If you have questions or any issues with any of your students and specific schools not being a selected choice, please email a list of those students and the school that needs to be selected to Jennifer Boland. Thank you for your prompt attention and assistance.

Greetings Principals,

Memphis-Shelby County Schools recognizes 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.

According to the 12-month hourly work schedule, SEAs are expected to work July 3, 2023. Virtual professional learning assignments have been planned for SEAs who do not take a vacation day on July 3, 2023.   

 
NOTE: If an SEA takes a vacation day, the SEA is NOT REQUIRED to complete the VIRTUAL professional learning experiences. 

SEAs do not have to report to schools. Instead, SEAs will be required to complete 6 hours of professional learning that includes self-paced, asynchronous professional learning assignments and a Bridge to Practice exercise.  All hours can be completed remotely, provided that SEAs have access to a device and the Internet.  

If an SEA does not have access to Internet, Wi-Fi, or Hotspot, the SEA can report to the Early Literacy Office at Hamiton High School on July 3, 2023 @ 8:30AM-3:30PM.  To ensure accommodations for SEAs reporting to Hamilton High School, each SEA must sign up here:    https://forms.office.com/r/QFxBYgAqGt

SEAs must bring their own devices and present their MSCS ID upon entry. 

Professional learning assignments must be completed by 3:30PM on July 3, 2023.  No late or emailed assignments will be accepted. The articles for the professional learning assignments are attached and embedded in the Bridge to Practice exercise. 

Link to SEA July 3 Professional Learning Assignment:  https://forms.office.com/r/fBc8pcWNXT

If you have any questions, please contact the Early Literacy Department via email at EarlyLiteracyDept@scsk12.org or call 901.416.4801. 

Announcements: 

Dashboard Rollover has started and is scheduled to be completed July 31st. 

As we prepare updates for the new school year, some reports will be temporarily unavailable or will have data refreshes paused (only showing updates as of 6/9). All reports will be available again and will be refreshing normally by the start of school. 

New user access will also be paused at this time. For any new users or staff changing building locations- once rollover is complete, access will be updated prior to the start of school. For more information, contact us at DAIMSUPPORT@scsk12.org

School Improvement Plans – because access updates are paused, anyone who needs access to a new school (and already has PowerBI access) will still be able to see data in School Profile. This should help with the completion of SIPs. For more information see this user guide.

BrightBytes will no longer be available for the 23-24 school year. If you have any questions, reach out to the SEED team for more information at 416-6007.

Updates and New Releases:

Summer Learning Academy – Attendance Report is now available! Site Administrators, Site Administrator Mentors, and Principals have access. The dashboard refreshes daily at 12:00 pm. Check out the user guide and this video for more information!

What's in PowerBI? Check out all the reports we have available here. And our Release Plan, here!

Training and Support Resources: 

New User PowerBI training sessions are coming soon! Stay tuned to Leaderboard for more information.

Virtual Office Hours sessions are paused during the summer. However, you can access our wide array of training materials, including videos from past VOH sessions from our DAIM Support Hub. Check out this flyer for more information! 

You can also reach out to us at DAIMSUPPORT@scsk12.org if you need support. 

For more information on Virtual Office Hours, check out this flyer! 

RETURNING NIE Evaluators

• The NIE Recertification process for the 2023-2024 school year began June 1st. Identified Returning NIE Evaluators who were certified during the 22-23 school year were automatically placed in the Recertification Self-Paced course in Canvas. Therefore, self-registration is not necessary and will not be accessible in PLZ.
• Please check your Canvas dashboard for this course.
• The district completion deadline for ALL RETURNING EVALUATOR Certifications is August 31st.

NEW NIE Evaluators

• Registration is now open to Evaluators that are NEW to the Non-Instructional Evaluation process. NEW Evaluators MUST attend one of the LIVE (Virtual) NIE Certification trainings that will begin July 13th.
• Please reference PLZ Course# 30314 to register.
• For more information including training dates, please click the link below.
  • SY2023-2024 NIE Evaluator Certification Training Calendar

Questions/Concerns? Send an email to eps@scsk12.org.

TEM Certification SY2023-24: According to Tennessee State Board of Education Policy5.201, all educators must be evaluated annually by a certified evaluator.

For SY2023-24, there are three tiered options offered in attaining TEM Certification:

1. Returning Observers - Self-Paced (Canvas)
   • TIER I (Self-Paced): Conducted a minimum of one instructional evaluation during the 22-23 school year
   • TIER II (Self-Paced): Certified sometime within the last 1 -2 years (school years 2021-22, 2022-23) but did not conduct an observation during SY22-23
2. New Observers - 2-Day Live Virtual Session or Canvas Self-Paced
   • TIER III: Administrators who have never conducted a formal TEM observation or do not qualify for TIER I or TIER II

Course numbers and date information can be found HERE.

The course went live in Canvas on June 1st.  TIER I and TIER II participants were placed in their prospective courses.  *Note: ALL TIER I and TIER II participants must complete their TEM coursework and calibration by August 31st.

Questions/Concerns? Send an email to eps@scsk12.org.

The state has posted a number of TCAP reports on the PearsonAccess site under the “Published Reports” section that can be accessed by principals and Building Testing Coordinators. These reports only include regular TCAP scores and not the TCAP alternate test results that will also be included in accountability calculations. In addition, other accountability rules have not been applied to the summary reports (e.g., Students are required to be enrolled at the school for 50% of the year or more to count toward the accountability achievement indicator). We will receive files from the state with accountability rules applied later in the summer. These reports are still embargoed and should not be shared with anyone outside of the district.

If you have forgotten your password, there is a forgot password function at the site. If you are a new principal at a school and cannot access your new school, please reach out to us (assessment@scsk12.org), and we will connect your account to the correct school. 

Make sure the correct test and year are showing at the top of the page in PearsonAccess. If you do not see any reports, you may have the wrong test selected at the top of the page after you log in (e.g. EOC instead of grades 2-8).