National Board Information

 Scores for both initial and MOC candidates will be released on December 10, 2022.

Accessing Scores

•         Please log into your account in advance of score release. Score reports are accessed via candidate accounts. If candidates can’t log in to their account, they can reach out to customer support directly via phone, webform or chat.

•         The National Board score release page has a suite of resources for candidates including information on how to access their scores, the scoring calculator, and guidance on how to interpret scores.

Customer Support

•         If you need to reach out to the National Board, please reach out directly to customer support. Reaching out to individual members of the National Board team delays getting candidates in the queue to get your questions answered.

•         New this year! To better support candidates on the day of score release, customer support will be available from 10am to 3pm CT on Saturday, December 10th. They will be able to access customer support via phone, webform, or chat. NBPTS Contact - NBPTS

NCDPI

•         NB Connect will be down from December 8th, 2022, through December 15th, 2022, for maintenance and the uploading of the initial and MOC scores.

•         There will be no access to the report until December 15th

•         Be advised that I begin running the score report as soon as the system is restored.

•         Scores for both initial and MOC candidates will be uploaded into the salary system once the requested data i.e., social security numbers and NC teaching license numbers are returned to Toya via an encrypted spreadsheet.

•         Expected time of completion is January 31, 2023

Connection and Culture in Secondary ELA: Supporting a Multicultural Classroom Community

Are you looking for new ways to engage the diverse student population in your ELA classroom (and have some fun while you’re at it)?  Join HMH and our speaker, veteran high school teacher and educator influencer, Andrea Michelle, as she brings humor and pragmatic approaches to creating an ELA classroom that is inclusive and relevant for students of all backgrounds.  Check her out on Instagram @educator_andrea for more great insights, delivered in her signature entertaining style Register now for:  Connection and Culture in Secondary ELA:  Supporting a Multicultural Classroom Community on Tuesday, December 13th at 4pm(EST). Register here and share the attached flyer with your colleagues. You won’t want to miss it!

Interested in Being a Kenan Fellow?

Applications are open now!

Kenan Fellowship - Application closes January 13.

Literacy Instructional Standard Learning Series for

 All Content Areas

The NCDPI Office of Academic Standards will begin offering a Literacy Instructional Standard Learning Series in November and span through spring of 2023. These state-wide, virtual professional learning opportunities will focus on integrating the Literacy Instruction Standards (LIS) into standards-aligned content area instruction. The sessions are open to all K-12 educators (all content areas, including exceptional children's staff) and would greatly benefit your literacy leadership teams in building strong, standardized research proven instructional standards in all content areas. The sessions will support your Adolescent Literacy Leadership teams with implementation of their improvement goals. 

As you are developing your implementation plans for NC SIP, district literacy instruction plans, evaluating and modifying literacy curriculum and instructional methods, please consider these sessions as a resource and professional development to support your adolescent literacy improvement goals and content area literacy instructional practices.

Content Area Literacy Instructional Standards Learning Series

The following sessions will be offered this school year: 

Literacy in Science: December 15, 2022

Literacy in Math: January 25, 2023

Literacy in Social Studies: April 27, 2023

Literacy in ELD: May 11, 2023

For more information and where to register, please see the LIS Learning Series Promo.

If you have not already joined the ELA listserv, please consider subscribing to get the most up to date information and very valuable resources to support adolescent literacy instructional practices aligned to standards. To subscribe to the listserv, click here and navigate to the ELA SCOOP section of the page. Also, please find the latest edition of The ELA SCOOP on this page, which is the NCDPI ELA Section's quarterly newsletter full of valuable resources for implementation support. 

TECHNOLOGY UPDATES:

 Over the winter break, we will be migrating our Microsoft accounts into ClassLink. This means that when we return in January, ALL users will login into their Windows machines AND their Microsoft accounts the same way.  

They will use their CCS Email as their username and their ClassLink password as their new computer and Microsoft account passwords.

Staff: If you have never used or accessed ClassLink, please follow these steps.

• Go to https://my.classlink.com/craven
• Log in with your UID Number as your username.
• Your default Password is "Craven####", the #### is the last 4 of your UID.
• You'll be prompted to set up a new password (which will then become your Windows and Microsoft Password).
• You'll be asked to set up a MultiFactor Authentication method as well.

If you have any questions, please let us know at 252-514-6393 option 1. You can also review our ClassLink training video.

English Language Development Standards and Resources

Content teachers support the English Language Development Standards through the integration of academic vocabulary, among other areas.  The NCDPI ML/Title III Team has designed a series of professional learning opportunities in collaboration with other content area consultants in the Office of Academic Standards. All educators of multilingual learners (MLs) are invited to participate in the live sessions or review the archives to think deeply about the 2020 NC ELD Standard Course of Study (SCOS) and identify ways to increase the achievement of MLs through a collaborative approach to instruction and standards implementation. 

Language for Arts Education

The Arts Education team created a set of documents focusing on how the arts teacher can approach ELD support. These resources highlight the most prominent Key Language Uses and modes of communication in alignment with the standards for dance, theater, music, and visual arts.

Explore this resource

Language for Math

The Math team collaborated with the ML/Title III Consultants exploring the Mapping and Unpacking documents to help content area teachers and ML specialists identify connections between the math and ELD standards, as they plan collaboration and integrated instruction.

Explore this session archives

Language for ELA

The ELA team, in collaboration with ELA and ELD educators, designed text sets to support multilingual learners’ learning processes and make grade-level complex texts more accessible. Text sets help students make connections to their backgrounds, interests, and experiences, and provide various entry points and access to content. These text sets integrate speaking, writing, reading, and listening, and address academic and social language.

Explore these resources

Language for Science

The Science team and the ML/Title III Consultants developed a session to help educators become familiar with the ELD Standards and standards-based resources available for supporting multilingual learners in the science classroom. Specifically, the session addressed the connection between the ELD Standards and the Scientific Engineering Practices (SEPs).

Explore this session’s archives and resources

Language for Social Studies

The Social Studies team and the ML/Title III Consultants developed two virtual sessions discussing the roles of the social studies and ELD teachers, the connections with the Professional Teaching Standards, and resources to support lesson planning and collaboration.

Explore this session's archives and resources

Embedded Online Calculator, Lexile/Quantile Measures

NCDPI Accountability Services recently hosted a series of instructional support webinars.  Recordings, agendas, slides, and activities are linked here for the embedded online calculator and Lexile and Quantile measures sessions.