1 NC WISE Parent Assistant A user-friendly web application to help parents track their children’s progress in school

Allows easy communication between parents and teachers. Allows parents to update their child’s personal information and family contacts. Parent Assistant:

Increased Home-School Communication Real-time Student Progress Reporting (Seven days a week, 24 hours a day) Increased Parent Involvement Language choices (English, French, Spanish) Key Benefits of PA

Types of Parent Accounts Parent User –Access to all children with 1 account Parent living with the student radio button checked Same address as student(s) in NC WISE Views Demographic & Emergency Contact Information May request changes to this data Student User –Access to one child with one login Use this access for Non-Primary parent Does not have same address as student in NC WISE Does not view Demographic & Emergency Contact Info

Data Preparation: Sibling Information Sibling links must be verified at each school where siblings reside Entry in eSIS through COMMON VIEW>FAMILY>SIBLINGS Reporting Hub report “Student Sibling List (School)”

Menus General Info: Change Password Demographics Emergency Contacts Academic Progress: Assignments Credits Earned To Date Current Progress Marks/Grades Current Activity: Attendance Student Update: Courses Miscellaneous: Lunch Menu Non-School Days Student Schedule

PA - Logging In

Passwords are case sensitive and do not expire

Business practices do not change Documentation required for Proof of Residency

Business practices do not change Documentation required for Home Language Survey

No changes are made directly to eSIS data by making changes in Parent Assistant

Emergency Contacts In eSIS, Emergency Contact radio button on Parent screen does not make parent an Emergency Contact in Parent Assistant Module Because parents do not see themselves listed in Parent Assistant as an Emergency Contact, they make a change request to add themselves as an Emergency Contact This will cause parents to appear on both the Parent screen as well as the Emergency Contact screen in eSIS

Office Reason must be populated to see in Attendance Details

Teachers make individual assignments viewable in PAM (Parent Assistant Module) by populating the “Post to Parent Assistant Date” field

Future dates will postpone viewing of Assignment Details, but not viewing changes to Current and Cumulative averages Failure of the teacher populating the date does not prevent parents from seeing changes to averages Teachers with Preference to “Count Blank Marks as Zeros” should enter all marks for an assignment or this preference will be applied

Teachers can communicate to the parents of an entire class…using Parent Tips

…or to the parent of a single student using the Mark Comment through Mark Entry

Null Column –Current Report Period Average Current Average Column –Cumulative running average over multiple report periods

This view is similar to a Report Card

Why do we need Parent Assistant? To improve the effectiveness of the communication between teachers and parents To allow Technology a way to provide a more efficient means of communication

Parent Assistant: Teacher Considerations When and how frequently will teachers enter assessments and marks? Will all teachers count missing marks as 0 – Zero? If a teacher doesn’t enter marks for all students in an assessment, what will happen to the average for the students who have no mark entered? Will the teacher print a Progress Report for all students?

Parent Assistant: Teacher Considerations How often will High School teachers turn in absence notes so the absence reasons can be updated? How often will teachers update absence reasons in Elementary and Middle Schools?

Parent Assistant: Other Considerations Will Report Cards be printed for all students? How will this program impact Parent/Teacher conferences? Who will create, modify, delete parent accounts for Parent Assistant? Who will approve the demographic changes?

Parent Awareness Current Plans: An AlertNow call will be sent to parents once the system is available The availability of the program will be publicized on the New Hanover County Schools Webpage, in the Superintendents Newspaper article, School Newsletters, etc…