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  School/District Capacity Indicators - Definitions and Instructions
  Date last updated - 7/09/08
   
  General Instructions
 
  1. You need to login with your personal eRIDE login/password to complete the School/District Capacity Indicators reports, formerly known as the SALT Data Collections; contact the District data manager if you do not have a login; user logins will be emailed to district and school administrators, district central office personnel who were responsible for the SALT Data Collections last year;
  2. You need the Internet Explorer Web browser 5.0 or later to access eRIDE (http://www.eride.ri.gov);
  3. To begin, click on the application School Capacity Indicators in your eRIDE portal; click on 'add/update ...'  to start add or update a response to a question or a set of questions;
  4. District Central Office completes the section on teacher attendance, mobility and grievances for each school in the district;
  5. District administrator completes the descriptive questions on 'District Capacity Indicators', reviews the capacity reports for each school and signs off the district report;
  6. School administrator completes the descriptive questions on 'School Capacity Indicators', reviews data on the teacher attendance, mobility and grievances which are completed by the district Central office and signs off the entire school report when both sections are completed;
  7. Always type your responses first in a notepad or another word processing program and paste your responses to this online submission form because your online session may be timed out if it takes too long to complete your responses;
  8. For general questions about this report, please contact Marie Gareipy, Phone (401) 222-8967; to report technical problems, please email Derick K. Ariyam (ext. 8974, derick.ariyam@ride.ri.gov);
  9. When completed and electronically signed off, print a copy of the report, sign it, fax it or send it to: Marie Gariepy, RI Department of Education, 255 Westminster St, Providence, RI 02903. Phone (401) 222-8967; Fax (401) 222-4044.
  10. Reporting starts on July 10th, and ends on August 1st;
   
 
Teacher attendance
  Is the total number of days that the regularly scheduled classroom teachers were absent because of illness, professional development or other reasons on instructional days in school year 2007-08.  Please do not include administrative or guidance staff, or absences for teachers on long term sick leave of 30 consecutive days or more.  The numbers are used by the Department to calculate your teacher attendance rate. You do not have to calculate the rate.
Full-time equivalency (FTE)
  Report part-time staff in terms of FTE.  FTE should be counted in tenths.  For example, if a teaching position is filled by two part-time people, each working a half day, count each person as 0.5.
Teacher grievances
  The total number of grievances in each of the following categories that were filed in school year 2007-08:
  • Insufficient materials
  • Too many students in class
  • Physical Environment
  • District-level Administrative Decisions
  • School-level Administrative Decisions
  • Other

Teacher mobility (please do not include substitute teachers)
 
  1. New/returned to school: a teacher who was new or returned to the school during the school year 2007-08; a continuing teacher from 06-07 should not be counted as someone who 'returned' to the school.
  2. New/returned to district: a teacher who was new or returned to the district during school year 2007-08; a continuing teacher from 06-07 should not be counted as someone who 'returned' to the district.
  3. Left school: a teacher who taught and left the school during the school year 2007-08;
  4. Left district: a teacher who taught and left the district during the school year 2007-08;

The numbers are used by the Department to calculate your teacher mobility rates. You do not have to calculate the rate.
School Mobility = 100*(# who was new/returned to school + # who left school)/FTE in school).
District Mobility = 100*(# who was new/returned to district + # who left district)/FTE in district).
NOTE: Teachers who left and then returned will be counted twice in this formula.