Professional development on the district’s new formative assessment system, Performance Matters, will occur September 2-5 at the TLA. Each school’s Building Testing Coordinator should sign up for and attend one of these professional development sessions.  Schools also are encouraged to send a second person for training. A maximum of two individuals may attend from each school. 

There are elementary school sessions and middle/high school sessions. When signing up for a session in PLZ, the two representatives from each school should select a session that matches with the grade level of their school. There is one K-8 session on Friday. If a K-8 person is unable to attend the K-8 session, we recommend they attend one of the elementary sessions. All sessions are full-day sessions starting at 8 A.M. and ending at 3:30 P.M. 

To sign up for a session in PLZ, search for course number 48686. The name of the course is MSCS 2025 Fall Performance Matters Professional Development.

Our rollover process for the start of the 2025-2026 school year has been completed for all dashboards. 

Be aware that with the start of school, some reports (like those in Student Attendance and Student Assessments) may show “No Data” for some fields. This will resolve once that data is available in PowerSchool and other various source data systems.
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Need a refresher on which dashboard has the data you’re looking for? 

Check out the Quick Reference Guide!

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Some non-administrative school staff members may have lost access to Power BI during the summer as part of the yearly maintenance process. This will be anyone who does not get access automatically based on their position title (including teachers). Principals and APs have access to the MSCS Compass Access App and grant access to the available reports. For more information, click here.
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Dashboard Updates:
The Literacy Commitment: Promotional Pathways report has been updated and now includes an additional report with Prior Year Promotion data for currently enrolled students. For more on the Promotional Pathways report, click here.

The Greatness Starts with Showing Up (formally known as C.O.M.E. to Win) report has been updated in Student Attendance with the new attendance categories (Gold, Silver and Bronze). Historical data from last year is available. New data will populate after each 20-day period ends. Data for the 1st 20-day period will be available on September 1. See the user guide for more information.

Featured Reports:
TCAP data is now available in the Student Assessment: TCAP Report, Student Assessment: District Quick Report – Summative, Student Snapshot, School Snapshot, and Feeder Pattern dashboards. For the user guides, see: TCAP Report, DQR – Summative, Student Snapshot, School Snapshot, and Feeder Pattern.

i-Ready data can be found in the Student Assessment: i-Ready Report and in the RTI-A Universal Screener Reports. For more info on the Student Assessment report, click here. For more on the RTI-A reports, click here.

Use the Student Attendance dashboard to track daily and meeting attendance, students at-risk for chronic absenteeism, truancy, and PSSP compliance. See the full list of attendance user guides here.

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Upcoming Training Sessions:

Check out our Training Calendar for all upcoming District Trainings.

On Wednesday, August 27, we have Department trainings with:

• Regional Superintendents and Instructional Leadership Coaches
• RTI2-B Support Specialists

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Sign up for Virtual Office Hours!

No Virtual Office Hours this week due to Leadership Development Week.

Virtual Office Hours will resume next week (September 2 and 4). The sessions will be an overview of the Student Attendance: Greatness Grows with Showing Up Report.

For more information on Virtual Office Hours, check out this flyer! Sessions are on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 3:30 PM on Microsoft Teams. 

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New to Power BI? Sign Up for a Power BI New User Training session. Look for Course Code 34810 in PLZ to sign up. 

Refresher Sessions are available for anyone who attended the New User Training previously and wants more advanced skills. Look for Course Code 34812 in PLZ to sign up.
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Monthly Newsletter: 

Check your inbox! On the first Wednesday of every month, the DAIM team sends out a monthly newsletter to all Power BI users. In it, you will find more information on upcoming trainings, new releases, and how-to guides. 

To see this month’s edition (and all archived editions), visit our support page.
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Check out our page of new/updated features and releases on our DAIM Support Page!

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

• The Q1 Progress Report period ends Wednesday, September 3, 2025. Q1 Progress Reports will not be mailed. Parents will continue to be able to view the grades in the Parent Portal. The Q1 Progress Report Checklist is available on SharePoint. This document outlines the teacher and school office staff’s responsibilities for verifying and finalizing Q1 Progress Reports.
• Listed below are the Report Card and Progress Report Periods for the 2025-2026 school year.