482 PowerSchool Testimonials

“I think the biggest thing at the end of the day is we’re focused on student learning. The more we can do to learn about how our students learn, what our students are learning, and really where they are in their learning, the better we are.”

“We used [the mapping functionality] during the freeze in Texas (in February 2021), so we could see where [staff] lived to make a decision on whether we should be closed.”

“We’re pleased with the functionality. One of the aspects we like is that teachers are able to do attendance in the classroom on mobile devices in real time and parents are able to see that attendance immediately.”

“PowerTeacher Pro gives us the ability to easily drill into student learning and access valuable information to help change instruction for the better. Because of the program and how we’ve set up our standards, we are able to change instruction to benefit our students. It allows us to easily access student proficiency data skill by skill, and the reports allow us to drill down to see all of the supporting data in an easy-to-understand format.”

“PowerSchool and PowerTeacher Pro is helping the school district through the classroom graphing view of proficiency. They are using this view at a quick glance to determine if a class is proficient in specific standards and that planned instruction included those specific standards. With the easy view available in PowerTeacher Pro, they are able to change their planned instruction based on how the class is learning and performing, which helps use instructional time more wisely and helps boost student learning.”

“PowerSchool Special Education has been an excellent solution that is making us nearly 50 percent more efficient, saving at least 70 administrative hours every year, and has improved state compliance from below 50 percent to 92 percent."

“You just can’t pull together big data in CDD and it can’t do dashboards. I realized that CDD is quite a powerful tool, but it was sort of limited. There’s a lot of stuff that it can’t do. I’ve been watching for years as PowerSchool tried to decide what to use as a product. When they picked Cognos, I figured that was a really good choice, and it was time to get on board. To move our districts forward, we needed to start using tools like Cognos. Cognos is the future.”

“PowerSchool Learning and PowerSchool SIS give us consistent data, versatility, increased opportunities for learning and development, and enhance collaboration district-wide. PowerSchool’s unified system is efficient, reliable, easy to maintain, and provides a fast, efficient support network.”

“We were looking for something that offered a wide variety of tools for teachers. Different teachers had different needs depending on topics and styles of teaching. We really wanted something that was going to be easy for teachers to get into and embrace with a quick learning curve—something that was easy to share materials, to collaborate, and from the tech side we wanted a system that was reliable so that teachers wouldn’t be frustrated with downtime and other issues.”

“It’s easy for teachers of all different comfort levels with technology. At the most basic level, we have teachers who are improving the workflow by adding digital content instead of using printouts and paper copies. Other users who are much more comfortable with technology are using more advanced features that PowerSchool Learning offers. They have kids creating Wikis, they have online discussions, they’re giving online assessments, they have discussions going on in and outside of school, and they’re running self-paced blended learning for their students.”

“With PowerSchool Special Education it’s so easy to manage caseloads—we’re talking a few clicks to create our caseload sheets and then all they have to do is type in how much special-ed time those students are getting, and everything else is calculated for them. Our educators love that. Our count process is so much less stressful for everybody now.”

“PowerSchool is providing all of the necessary screens and tools, and we’re working on implementing them. The state regulatory group has been very responsive.”

“PowerSchool is much easier to use, and it gives us one place to house our student records. PowerSchool is saving us time and resources. It gives teachers the ability to simply do what they need to and that’s to teach students. And parents have more security knowing what happens with their student’s learning. PowerSchool helps enhance and inspire wonderful communication.”

“A lot of the curriculum development work is done within our professional learning communities. Now our curriculum is dynamic, which can help identify opportunities for improvement.”

“I think the best part of using a preferred partner is that both PowerSchool and TimeClock Plus are dedicated to make the integration work. I’ve experienced other third-party vendors saying, ‘Oh, this will interface,’ and it’s unrealistic and it doesn’t. And, another reason to use products that interface well is because the expectations about what we have to track change all the time. So, we have to be ready.”