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District unveils new website, messaging integration and staff-evaluation changes
Summary
District staff told the Mill Creek Community School Corporation board it has launched a new website, moved to an integrated mass-messaging workflow, will adopt PowerSchool Perform for evaluations, and is switching recruitment to Nimble; a fuller briefing on new state accountability criteria is planned.
District staff gave a master-plan update that covered a new district website and messaging provider, changes to staff-evaluation tools and a transition to a new hiring platform.
A staff presenter said the district launched a refreshed website at "mccse.k12.in.us" and switched website providers to FinalSite (the transcript also referenced variants such as "FinalSight"). The presenter said the new provider will handle mass messaging, automatically posting messages to each school's social media pages and the district site so parents will not have to re-enroll in messaging services. "Parents won't have to do anything to update. Their pull FinalSight is pulling the data from PowerSchool," the presenter said.
Staff also said the district will replace its prior evaluation tool (provided by 5 Star) with PowerSchool Perform so teacher evaluations will be integrated with PowerTeacher Pro and housed within the district's PowerSchool instance. "We have not changed anything in our rubrics," the presenter said; the rubrics were migrated from the previous platform.
For recruitment, staff said the district has moved non-teaching job postings into Nimble to provide principals with weekly slates of candidates to review.
Finally, staff announced a planned future briefing on new state accountability criteria, noting the first semester 2026 grades will use last year's students as a baseline (a "year 0"). The presenter said they will provide a more detailed presentation at a later meeting so the community can understand how school grades will be calculated under the new model.
Board members asked about the timeline for migrating critical content such as agendas and minutes; staff said migration should include those items and that administrators will be trained to maintain school pages. Staff said the new site will include a searchable chatbot to help parents find calendars and other resources.
Next steps: staff will meet with the site provider to finish migration, train building administrators on the content-management workflow and schedule the detailed briefing on accountability metrics.
