"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 …

“Integrations within PowerSchool products, as well as third-party integrations, have been great. And I definitely feel that our data is safer within our connected, digital workflows, especially in enrollment. We used to have important forms sitting in the main office in a bin. But now we have the simplicity and …

“Prior to using Applicant Tracking and Employee Records, a good part of our human resources assistant job was physically creating files for onboarding, hiring, and other employee documentation. A lot of their day — about 50 percent of their workload — was managing those files. So just by eliminating paper …

“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 …

“For example, if you’re a third grade math teacher and you’re working on Standard of Learning 3.6, there’s a bank of questions you can access that are specific to the objective you’re working on. Using Bloom’s Taxonomy or DOK levels, teachers know how rigorous each of their assessment items are."