2025-26 School Climate Survey
The School Climate Survey for 2025-26 will be administered to all District-managed schools in January and February this year, with exact dates TBD. Students in Grades 3-12 should participate. Parent informed consent is required; forms are currently available to parents in eCollect. Please encourage parents of students in grades 3-12 to log in to the Parent Portal and sign the consent form. More information can be found here.
Reminder: January 12, 2026
MSCS Compass Updates and New Releases
Report Updates:
- Projected Chronic Absenteeism rates are available in the MSCS Compass. You can find them in the Student Attendance Dashboard, District 360 (at the aggregated level), and in School Snapshot. A student is considered Projected Chronically Absent if they have an attendance rate of 90% or less, after being enrolled at least 50% of instructional days. This is a proxy for the official State Chronically Out of School rate. For more on the Student Attendance reports, click here. For District 360, click here. And for School Snapshot, click here.
- State Chronically Out of School rates for 2024-2025 school year and AMO targets will be available soon. You will find them in the District 360 dashboard on Monday, 1/12. See the user guide here.
- i-Ready data is available during the Winter testing window (12/15 to 1/23). Data will populate the following day and 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.
- Quarter 2 Report Card grades will be available in the Student Grades Dashboard this week. They will populate after Report Cards are distributed and grades are stored/finalized in PowerSchool. For more on the Student Grades reports, click here.
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Upcoming Training Sessions:
This week, for Virtual Office Hours, we’re reviewing where to find Projected Chronic Absenteeism and State Chronically Out of School data in the MSCS Compass.
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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Check out our Training Calendar for all upcoming District Trainings.
| Date | Training | Sign Up | |
| 1/13 & 1/15 | Virtual Office Hours: Projected and State Chronic Absenteeism | Click here to sign up. | |
| 1/20 & 1/22 | Virtual Office Hours: Student Grades Overview | Click here to sign up. | |
| 1/20 | Power BI: MSCS Compass New User Training (PLZ 34810) | Click here to sign up. | |
| 1/22 | Power BI: MSCS Compass Refresher Training (PLZ 34812) | Click here to sign up. |
We also have a trainings with New PLC Coaches (1/15), Principal Pulse (1/16), and High School Counselors (1/29).
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Starting in February, we have two new dashboard specific trainings available.
Each month, we will have a training session on the High School Progress Dashboard (Course Code 49628 in PLZ) and on the Student Discipline Dashboard (Course Code 49629 in PLZ). Sign up today!
| Topic | Dates | |
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| High School Progress Dashboard | 2/3, 3/3, 4/7, 5/5 | |
| Student Discipline Dashboard | 2/5, 3/5, 4/9, 5/7 |
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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.