The Office of SEED Truancy and Homebound Services will be offering the following professional development sessions during the month of July:

• SART and PSAP Deep Dive - Course # 31824
• Understanding Homebound Services and the Need for Intermittent Homebound - Course #34537

We are asking leaders to please share this information with their counselors, administrators, family engagement specialists and other appropriate staff. Interested participants will need to register for the course in PLZ using the course number provided. Session facilitators will send the link to all enrolled participants. If you have any questions, email Chanda Jones-Donald at jonesdonaldcr@scsk12.org.

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 EDI Support Survey. 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.

Greetings Principals, 

Purpose  

The Situation Room is a "one-stop-shop" where all problems, crises, and questions are addressed at a single location.  One or more persons from several operational departments is stationed at Messick or are on call to quickly and efficiently respond to problems related to the opening of schools.  

2023 Situation Room Information  

Date: July 31 – August 25, 2023   

Time: 8:00 am – 4:00 pm Daily 

Location: Messick (703 S. Greer, Building B - Room 207)    

Participating Departments 

Effective Monday, July 10th, Registration School is no longer used for new student enrollments.  New students should be enrolled in their assigned school with a start date of August 7, 2023.

Additionally, the iChoose email address will be unavailable beginning Friday, July 21, 2023, at 6:00PM. 

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the Enrollment Team.

August 2023 DLD is just around the corner and we need your assistance in making sure that everything goes as smoothly as possible. Please complete the following information by Monday, July 17th at noon.  https://forms.office.com/r/SMdh4Uz322  The information will be used by our IT Department and Facilities as they make preparations for the return to our buildings.  Full details are in the email from Dr. Whitelaw.

If you have questions regarding DLD, please contact Emily Vuoso at vuosoeb@scsk12.org.

Greetings Awesome School Leaders!
 

The start of the school year is just around the corner! Our students will be returning to school on Monday, August 7. We are turning to our community partners to join us in welcoming students on the first day of school by joining “Hype Huddles,” where families, school staff, alumni, and partners will share smiles, positive messages, high-fives, etc. as students enter the school building.

If you are interested in hosting a Hype Huddle support group on the first day of school, please complete the form attached.

https://forms.office.com/r/5U1bUvrYFZ

Thank you!

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 refresh 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. 

Training and Support Resources: 

Upcoming Sessions → Safety & Security In-Service Training on 7/18; Zone 9 and 12 Principal Training on 7/26

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! 

• 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.

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.