"The main priority was to continue to build relationships with students while increasing their academic performance."

“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 …

"It’s exciting that we can be more strategic, targeted, and student driven because we have the information we need at our fingertips with Panorama."

“On my computer, I have a post-it note: Look at Panorama. It reminds me to look at Student Success whenever I’m talking with kids.”

“We have data for math, reading, and writing. We also want to teach valuable life skills, but we haven’t ever been able to measure that until now. Teaching these skills is valuable and results in higher academic scores—and with Panorama, we now have a way to measure that. Academics and …

"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 …

"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 …

“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 …

“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 …

“For a district of our size, pulling all of that data takes a huge amount of time. We needed a platform that streamlined data collection and analysis so we could spend our time defining—and responding to—student needs from the whole child perspective. Often, we look at academics in isolation, or …

“When we started working with Panorama, we asked them to help us collect feedback from more of our community in order to get a more representative data set. The results have been remarkable. We collected three times as many surveys from families than we did last year. Working with Panorama, …

"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.”

“It was interesting to see the parents’ reactions to it, because when they saw that 25% of our students didn’t think they could get better in [academic] subjects, they were actually troubled by it, as well.”

“In my seven years here at Jefferson, I have seen a transformation with social-emotional learning. It's been a culture shift.”