July 2002
Volume 1 Number 1
Welcome to e-NEWS!
  
Principals Need to Log onto Website
It seems that every day brings another virtual
newsletter. You have received this letter because you are a registered user on the NCA CASI website. If you prefer not to receive these newsletters in the future, click here. The first sentence tells you how to unsubscribe. We hope you won't do that, because we plan for this newsletter to contain the most up-to-the-minute information from NCA CASI. Read this issue and let us know what you think. Send your comments and suggestions about the newsletter to us from here: enews@ncacasi.org. We want this to be a useful publication that helps you help students through quality school improvement programs.
Enroll Now in the NCA CASI School Improvement Specialist Program
Now is the time ....
to take a step toward developing a comprehensive school improvement plan for your school or district. The NCA CASI School Improvement Specialist Program prepares teachers, administrators and district leaders to direct and facilitate a comprehensive school improvement process. Participants develop a plan as they work through the program. When the program is complete, participants are well on their way to implementing the plan.

Program Features
Participants take four graduate-level distance courses taught by faculty from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Educational Administration. All courses are offered online through an interactive Web approach. Students interact with other participants regularly. New course sequences start this fall. There is still time to register before the end of August.

For more information:
By phone: 402-472-4354
By mail:

University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Division of Continuing Studies
NCCE 332
Lincoln, Nebraska 68583-9900
By fax: 402-472-4317
By Web: http://dcs.unl.edu/ncaimprove
By e-mail: ncaimprove@unl.edu
  With the coming of the new annual report, access to the report will no longer be gained via the school customer number and password. Instead, principals will need to log into the website in order to participate in the annual report function. All principals will need to register with their email address, select a password, and let us know the school with which they are affiliated. The website will be ready to accept this information August 1. If a principal is already registered on the website, we will be providing instructions on how he or she can specify the school affiliation without having to re-register.
New Software Released
Version 2.03 of the NCA software can now be downloaded from the NCA website by member schools. This free software is a key tool for internal steering committee chairs and external team chairs. The software upgrades deal primarily with printing problems, although some other bugs (particularly in Data Analysis) have been corrected. A more complete list of the changes is available on the software section of the NCA CASI Website http://www.ncacasi.org/sitools/software/changelog.adp. Users should have no trouble navigating the new version of the software if they are familiar with version 2.02. Installing version 2.03 does not overwrite the existing version (2.02). An auto-import feature has been added that will assist you in importing data from earlier versions of the software suite. The technical support staff can respond to any questions or problems that users experience.

Call 800-525-9517 (press 3)
for technical assistance.

Did You Know?
NCA-CASI now has 9,708 schools representing an estimated 6,000,000 students in our 19-state region.
 
Each state office has a toll-free number and usually a website. To see more information about your state office, click here.

 

 

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