113 Panorama Education Testimonials

"When we think about equity and ensuring every single one of the 34,000 students in our districts has the same opportunity to learn at a high level, the data says that 39% of our students clearly do not have the same opportunity. Even if that was just 1%, it is still a problem."

"Student Success is a tool that our teachers and interventionists use as a one-stop shop for data on academics, attendance, behavior, and SEL, as well as visibility into our district benchmarks and state assessments. It’s been a great tool for our MTSS implementation."

“In my 27 years of education I have never worked with a company that has the professionalism, follow through, and responsiveness that the colleagues at Panorama demonstrate on a regular basis. I continue to be impressed with their expertise and knowledge regarding school climate, using data to make informed decisions, and providing a racial equity and social justice lens in order to ensure student voices are heard.”

"I never had to worry about getting buy-in from my teachers for the Panorama partnership. When a tool has real value, you don't have to try to get buy-in."

"Everyone knows that what gets measured, gets done, and Panorama’s surveys add an important data source to our district improvement plans. For our school community, the survey is an engagement tool in itself.”

"Early warning indicators and intervention work are really important to our conversation about equity and excellence. We need to do more to ensure that all students engage with the opportunities that Waltham provides.”

“Whenever I talk to a buddy student, I’ll show them Panorama. The green, yellow, and red indicators make it very clear why they’ve been selected. I’ve worked with two girls who were failing fine arts, and showed both of them Panorama. I also opened up communication with their fine arts teacher. Every day in my class, I would ask the girls how things were going in the fine arts class just a daily conversational check-in. Those classes ended up turning around.”

“Two of my buddy students had been getting A’s and B’s in the beginning of the year but dropped to C’s and D’s. For both students, we implemented an intervention around Homework Club. I also started positive, and if needed, negative communication home. We use the Google Voice text messaging app to provide regular updates to parents about whether the students are attending Homework Club or whether they had a good day at school. Both students have been successful with some ongoing support. I’m pleased we were able to catch them early in Panorama and provide them with interventions to help them improve their grades.”

“My buddy student from my special ed caseload was struggling in social studies and science and had attendance issues. My first step was to connect with his mother. She shared that he was missing days for medical treatment. This helped me understand what was going on and got the mom working on our team. The second step was lunch group meetings, where he’d come with one or two friends. We’d have a nice time, but also get 15 or 20 minutes worth of work done. He’s done great in the last two terms, so we’re planning to remove some of his special services. You can really see the maturity level; his attendance and academics have improved.”

“We needed to strengthen our Tier 1 literacy instruction to ensure fewer students needed interventions. At the same time, we had to push toward more targeted, data-driven reading interventions for students who needed RSPs.”

“Most buildings were tracking student literacy progress in different ways. So data existed in many places, and there was no way to easily transfer it between buildings. With this new legislation, students could be on RSPs throughout multiple grades—so we had to have a way to track and share student progress as they move from building to building.”

“With Student Success, we look at data through a different lens. We’ve always been data driven, but our approach was very broad; now, it is more streamlined and efficient. RSPs help look more closely at student progress; we have a better understanding of challenging areas and how to address those.”

“Our partnership with Panorama has been great and always well-supported. Our questions and our next steps have always been very collaboratively done."

"At SCUC ISD, we want to make sure students are graduating with something that takes them further than across the stage. We want them to have the skills to go on to whichever areas they choose."

“That’s when we restarted with a more inclusive committee, pulling in principals and teachers to discuss how we were going to respond when kids aren’t learning.”