“We stay connected with our students using Schoology and Zoom. Because we use Schoology every single day, my kiddos have had almost no problems changing over to remote learning. One of my students sent me a message in Remind, saying that even though he didn’t like school very well, he really missed being in our classroom, but having Schoology helped him feel like he was at school, when he really wasn’t. I told him, that school is not the building, it’s the people.”
“PowerSchool Special Education brings together systems that weren’t connected at a local level and meets the needs of the entire department. This is bringing it all together into one powerful application to share data back and forth. It has eliminated redundancies and made things much more efficient."
"Having these integrated systems [Performance Matters Analytics] will ensure everyone is looking at the same data. With this information, we believe that teachers’ planning time and students’ learning time will be more focused and effective."
"Schoology has given us the ability to be consistent on how we do business across all grade levels, K through 12. It’s given us direction for our technology professional development so that we can supply our teachers with direct and meaningful learning opportunities. I love how easy it is for students, parents, and teachers to learn how to use the system. By the second year of adoption, we were able to have 95 percent of our teachers using Schoology every day."
"PowerSchool is an absolute dream in the special education realm. It is user friendly for the provider as well as the data team. The reporting feature is extremely helpful in managing caseloads, data, important dates, and state reporting components. We couldn’t be any happier with the product or the support we receive from the PowerSchool team."
"Unified Insights increases efficiency and helps district and school administrators make decisions and focus on key objectives such as MTSS."
“The chief academic officer of secondary and the EC executive director used the data to work with schools to improve supports for our most at-risk students. That’s now on everyone’s radar across the district about whether we’re appropriately and fully implementing behavior plans or beginning to take important steps to put behavior plans in place for both non-EC and EC students. This all came from this one simple Unified Insights report."
“I would encourage any district, any school site to take a look at [Naviance], There’s life beyond high school.”
“A lot of them think they can’t go to school, or they’re only community college eligible, and when they go [to Naviance] and find out, ‘Oh my gosh, that’s a career I’m interested in, I didn’t realize I could do those things’–that helps spark purpose.”
"We had secretaries in various states of translating hieroglyphics essentially and hoping that the information was correct and in PowerSchool SIS so teachers and staff could use it."
“Everything took people and time, We didn’t have the expertise to do that at a very rapid pace—to give our board and superintendent data that they needed to make almost real-time decisions.”
"The longer you wait, the more difficult it’s going to be."
"And then all of a sudden, the whole grade-level and subject area are starting to use [Schoology Learning] more. Then you have the school site admin say, well, the teachers are using it, we’ll do our staff meetings through it. And then, you have the counselors say, well, the students are now in it, I want to have groups for seniors now."
"Everybody else we talked to told us 'no. PowerSchool was there for us in our time of need."
"The Naviance [by PowerSchool] team has provided Humble ISD with outstanding professional and personalized customer service that will enable our students to reach their full potential."