NC Educator Effectiveness System (NCEES)

NCEES is the official Home Base application used by public and charter schools of North Carolina for storing and managing educator effectiveness. NCEES offers components designed to support the ongoing professional growth of K-12 educational leaders and teachers. This tool includes and educator evaluation component and a professional development component.   

professional development

  • NCEES PowerSchool's Perform Enterprise and Professional Learning (part of Unified Talent) 
    • Effective educator evaluation instruments and professional development plans in the Perform Enterprise component of NCEES available to PSUs include:
    • Rubrics based on NC teacher and administrator standards;
    • Observations that inform teacher/staff growth;
    • End of year evaluation ratings;
    • Free access to NCDPI self-paced Canvas and Moodle modules aligned to staff standards & elements, and focus areas;
    • Staff dashboards to track CEUs earned through DPI and local PD course modules, and varied PD learning opportunities; .
    • The PD office provides the ability to:
      • Create and manage local professional learning opportunities and track CEUs;
      • Share local PD/CEU opportunities with other PSUs for regional or shared events.
      • Transfer Credit Manager – manages approvals for CEUs earned outside of the district to show on staff transcripts
      • PSUs are given access to NCEES Professional Learning PD office component for $1/ADM (this fee also includes access to Schoolnet)

This associated site encompasses training resources, system updates, and events for the user-base audience. To learn more about this application, visit to the NCEES Information and Resources below.  

LEAs and charter schools are given access to the local control of professional development components by opting into Home Base for the low price of $1/ADM (this fee also includes access to Schoolnet). For more information on how to opt into Home Base, visit the Opt-in to Home Base page.

NCEES Information and Resources

Public School Unit Contacts for NCEES

NCEES Information and Resource 

NCDPI PD Self Paced Courses in NCEES

NCVirtual Professional Learning for Educators

NCEES Training YouTube Playlist

NCEES Help Guides

Tab/Accordion Items

The documents below were created by NCDPI for NCEES system users. All of these documents are released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license, so Public School Units are free to adapt and re-use these documents at their discretion.

View the list of NCEES Administrator Help Guides full screen.

The documents below were created by NCDPI for NCEES system users. All of these documents are released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license, so Public School Units are free to adapt and re-use these documents at their discretion.

View the list of NCEES Evaluator/Observer Help Guides full screen.

The documents below were created by NCDPI for NCEES system users. All of these documents are released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license, so Public School Units are free to adapt and re-use these documents at their discretion.

View the list of NCEES Teacher/Staff Plan Help Guides full screen.

The documents below were created by NCDPI for NCEES system users. All of these documents are released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license, so Public School Units are free to adapt and re-use these documents at their discretion.

View the list of NCEES Administrator Reporting Help Guides full screen.

The documents below were created by NCDPI for NCEES system users. All of these documents are released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license, so Public School Units are free to adapt and re-use these documents at their discretion.

View the list of NCEES Professional Learning Help Guides full screen.