“Our users, from the central office to the classroom, needed to be able to ingest and digest data easily. We wanted them to make decisions based on insights, not intuition.”

"This has saved us a few thousand dollars & probably 20+ hours when all was said and done, if I had to guess."

“A unified system allows educators to easily jump between applications on the education side. And then on the management side, counselors, administrators, secretaries, and all of the behind-the-scenes staff that are managing data have a single source of data entry so we are ensuring clean, quality data. We’re not enrolling …

“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."

“I think it’s critical to always involve stakeholders in any information system that we are developing. Typically our stakeholder engagement sessions are held at educational service cooperatives. These regional meetings provide the ability to demonstrate tools for data-driven decision making and solicit feedback from educators on how they can be …

“Once all the data from different silos have been loaded into a single database, we then do the extract, transfer, and load process. We have this data loaded in a warehouse and then put a reporting engine on top of it and from there the reports actually go directly from …

“Previously nothing was real-time. One of our goals was to have a one-stop shop through which we are better able to quickly access information about student achievement.”

“PowerSchool has been an excellent solution for managing our student data. It’s easy to use and full of functionality. And by implementing PowerSchool Hosting, we’re saving thousands of dollars every year in equipment costs and, more importantly, in staff hours."

“State reporting with PowerSchool is great! We can easily tie teachers to courses that the state needs, as well as matching data up with the superintendent’s report. We use many of PowerSchool’s reporting options and have been able to get reporting done on time and accurately.”

“Things that used to take days to complete can now be completed in far less time. It’s user-friendly and we can easily see and print out students’ schedules. It is also helpful to load the previous year’s schedule and make changes on that, as needed, instead of rebuilding an entire …

“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."

“It worked for a while but eventually got to a point that it needed to be updated to meet our growing needs. The previous system did not integrate well with our other systems. There was a lot of duplication of data entry; staff were adding information into our Special Education …

“PowerSchool Special Education is helping students get their Special Equipment Amount (SEA) claims processed efficiently and resources into their hands quickly. A process that was once up to 12 months has been reduced to as little as a few weeks.”

“Because of our size, it had become increasingly important to have something in place to support consistency in our system. Departments supporting students with Special Education needs were using many small department-specific applications. It was challenging for them to access important student information necessary to do their work efficiently.“

“We started out with a vision of what we wanted. We had an understanding that our solution needed to be accessible to staff and families across devices, linked to our student information system, electronic, streamlined, and efficient."