“Just like every other school district after the pandemic, absenteeism was at an all-time high, and we were just trying to find ways to decrease the number of absences by students.”

“Instructional time has increased significantly with the single sign-on. That means more time spent focused on the student. Having the gradebook, class pages and assessment all in one program, efforts aren’t duplicated, and monitoring the progress of the student is fluid. Communication with parents is better than it ever has …

"Using PowerSchool’s products has allowed our district to grow on a technological level and made the process seamless by providing integrated solutions. It has allowed me to find ways to reduce overall costs while providing better service."

"The implementation process of PowerSchool Unified Talent Applicant Tracking was great. Our implementation specialist was very knowledgeable and went over all the various areas for set up. Once we were on our own, we felt Applicant Tracking was easy to navigate. The best thing is we are no longer searching …

"Before PowerSchool Unified Talent Absence Management, our clerical staff would go through a long list of available replacements and their list of qualifications before they would be able to call out a replacement. This was a very time-consuming process. With Absence Management, we have the system set up to match …

“I cannot express how pleased we are with the change PowerSchool Unified Talent products brought to our team and what it has done for our office. We couldn’t have anticipated how positive an impact making this change would have.”

“This is the best September I’ve ever had. I’ve been able to get to know the kids quicker and I have more time to talk to them when they come into the office. I am not as overwhelmed with paper.”

"We utilize a PowerSchool partner called School Messenger. This extension pulls our daily absences and demographic information and automatically calls parents when their student is absent from school. Parents have loved having this function. We also use this extension for announcements and school closing emergencies. If we were not able …

"Security and ease of use — the nice thing exactly with PowerSchool is that they have so many different companies that do so many different things that all tie in together to give that one really nice easy user experience to my teachers, who really just want to teach kids …

“The IEP alerts are also helpful in differentiating instruction to meet each student’s needs.”

"We use PowerSchool Assessment for benchmarks each quarter and for progress monitoring at the end of units. The data from these assessments guide remediation and instruction for students. Using PowerSchool Assessment in coordination with an online learning management system, we have been able to assess students, instantly see the results …

"Our district goal is to widen the safety net to hopefully catch students at risk earlier. In order to do this, we are using PowerSchool to track all data to create plans and reports."

“What I love about PowerSchool is it frees up time for more student interaction.”

“By pulling data from the ‘Living With’ field in PowerSchool we were able to study correlations between family structure and academic/behavioral incidents for our students.”

"The ability to customize extensively has really made PowerSchool the best choice for the American School of Dubai. Though the system is designed for US public schools out of the box, we have been able to tailor fields, pages, and even build whole modules to the meet the needs of …