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Taking full advantage of the products and solutions your school invests in requires a comprehensive understanding of what those tools have to offer. When Michelle Morales of Roswell ISD wanted to learn the ins and outs of PowerSchool Unified Classroom™ Special Programs, she pursued the available training from PowerSchool. As a result, she gained knowledge that helped her and her district fulfill specific needs with a product they already had. “We have had [PowerSchool Special Programs] for 4 years. … The product is very user-friendly, and the trainer was absolutely fabulous at explaining everything, answering questions, and helping us walk through some specific questions and needs for our district, specifically how to pull reports. You don’t know what you don’t know. I wanted to know more about what PowerSchool Special Programs could do and what options there were for customization and functionality. I feel like I am a lot more knowledgeable now than before the training.”

- Michelle Morales

“Our 2020-2021 school year started off like many others, not knowing what the year would bring,” says David Scott, Director of Curriculum and Instruction at Tuscaloosa County School System in Alabama. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the district needed a blending learning solution to keep the learning going for all students. Using Schoology Learning, part of the PowerSchool Unified Classroom™ solution, Tuscaloosa County Schools provided a personalized, efficient educational experience to students, regardless of the setting. Three cohorts of teachers in the district participated in the Blending Learning Academy, successfully engaging both remote and in-person students throughout the school year. “Thanks to Schoology [Learning], we were able to provide our remote students with access to content and instruction,” Scott says. “It also provided a means of communication, and students were able to maintain positive relationships with their teachers.” Scott says that “although we still have much left to accomplish, Schoology has provided us with a pathway to reach our goals of becoming a blended learning school system in the near future.”

- David Scott

Compatibility is key. Eric Aufderhar works for a non-profit training center that switched to PowerSchool SIS. He is pleased with the enhanced communication and compatibility it created with their partner schools. The switch quickly made tracking student data and generating reports much easier with the help of PowerSchool’s implementation team. “I have worked in education for 12 years in various roles within Special Education. I now work at a non-profit training center that works with public high schools in New Orleans. We decided to use PowerSchool because we had been housing our records with Google Drive and all of our partner schools use PowerSchool, so we want to be compatible. The record storage and reporting features, among the many other uses of PowerSchool [SIS], make us very excited to start using PowerSchool [SIS]. PowerSchool SIS is already making it easier for us to track student data and generate reports. We are excited to use the system for the upcoming and future school years for our enrollment. We occupy a unique space of being a non-profit training center that works with partner high schools, and using the same SIS will make communication and coordination far easier in the future. Our [PowerSchool] implementation team made the process seamlessly easy… Whenever I had questions, the team either had the answers or found them within 24 hours. Whenever scheduling conflicts came up on my end, they were adaptable and made it work.”

- Eric Aufderhar