“Whether a student is in Georgina, or Woodbridge, or anywhere in this large region, special education resource teachers, administrators, regulated health professionals and eventually our parents can access information and develop programming for students in a timely way."

“Every day that goes by, students and teachers become more familiar with the product. We continue to get bigger and better ROI. A teacher will discover something new and say, ‘Wow, this is a new feature I didn’t know about!’ We no longer have disparate tools and the limitations they …

“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.”

“Accuracy in accounting for people’s true on-the-clock time with the district is critical when you’re trying to determine if you have to enroll that person or not."

“PowerSchool hosts a support call every Tuesday morning where we hear a lot of information on Texas regulations and learn about things that are happening. It helps us gather information and hear from other districts on what they’re doing.”

“Our understanding now of what happens with our educators and what happens with our students over time is much more sophisticated than it was just a couple of years ago. So if you put the data out there in digestible formats and if you have a committed state board, a …

"I think the ability for them to talk to each other about how they’ve worked through different scenarios and issues is an intangible benefit of operating from a single system. It’s not something anybody ever thinks about on the front end of an implementation. But I think if you ask …

“The data coaches meet schools where they are in their trajectory, help them understand what types of data they’re going to need to look at, take the PLCs through a cycle of inquiry, and set up structures and agendas to help them reflect on what data they have at their …

“Our initial license is good for three years. And, once you complete your mentoring and you have successful evaluations, then you go onto a continuing license, which is a five-year license."

“The PLCs allow mentors and novice educators to have a totally different conversation. We saw it go from more of a superficial conversation to these novice educators really getting great content support and data-rich conversations in their PLCs.”

“We found that 17 percent of highly qualified students weren’t going to any college. And, when we looked at low-income students who managed to do very well on the SAT, we saw 30 percent of them weren’t going to any college. So this year, we are working with the districts …

“Since 2004, Heartland has been using BusinessPLUS Position Budgeting for salary negotiations, forecasting, and budgeting. It’s an extremely flexible and powerful piece of software and will give you wonderful results.”

“Rebecca provided excellent training as we implemented the Position Budgeting module. We were fortunate to have her experience in the room, along with the PowerSchool consultant, Wes Durham, as we learned how to set up our system.“

“I absolutely recommend PowerSchool. PowerSchool has the easiest learning curve of any SIS package I’ve used because of the ability to have easy access to the backend of the database in a way you can’t mess up. You can ask any questions you want to, and you can customize it …

“We are only one of 53 fully accredited divisions in the state. That’s out of 132. We’re very proud that even though we’re geographically small we’re very, very big in success. And we put children first. We had a lot of puzzle pieces that we were able to put together …