"We wanted to move beyond the academics to make sure that we’re preparing students for college and career readiness, and truly measuring the things that will help students be successful.”
"For our staff and educators, we knew that we needed to focus on self-care and well-being. We first created a district-wide survey with Panorama for our administrators, teachers, and support staff on each campus to provide overall insights into the climate of the schools and the district as a whole. How were teachers perceiving their relationships with leadership? With so many additional stressors due to the pandemic, what was the overall school climate?"
"There was a lack of common tools for school-teams to be using we needed to find a way to put student data in the hands of our educators (and families) in a more efficient and streamlined manner so that they could take action sooner to support our students."
"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."
“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.”
“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.”
“We decided to bring Panorama in as MTSS consultants because we’re not experts. We were having these MTSS meetings, but nothing was happening between them.”
"On our journey to improve school quality, we asked ourselves, ‘Are we meeting the requirements of our students and families?’ One of those requirements is a safe, caring, welcoming environment, and we now have a better tool to measure that in a reliable and valid way.”
“Panorama’s tools for MTSS are powerful and easy to use in our daily work supporting students.”
"We recognized that our students were coming to school with a lot of baggage that we didn’t know how to work around. If we wanted to turn our district around, we needed to address the entire picture of the student from academics, to behavior, to attendance, to social-emotional learning."
"Panorama has allowed us to make a quantum leap in our approach to student support. We can ask, 'How is this student responding to our instruction?' in data meetings and instructional planning. We're becoming more responsive to the needs of our student body."
“We had a lot of data, but it was all over the place and we didn’t have a uniform process for building the capacity of our staff to use it. We wanted to create a district-wide protocol so that every school would have a baseline for building a positive climate.”
“In our past work looking at suspensions and office referrals, we focused on ensuring that students knew the rules and how to behave. Now, we’re looking at what’s missing in our environments that we need to build into our classrooms and schools.”
"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."
"Since partnering with Panorama, the data we have collected has shed new light on both the state of our district's climate as well the social-emotional development of our students. We knew they were the perfect partner for this work when we saw that equity was at the heart of their approach to SEL."