How the Personalized Learning Cloud Drives Better Student Outcomes 

The only solution to connect curriculum, instruction, and assessment to give you time back and elevate student outcomes 

On average, teachers work 54 hours a week, but only 46% of that time is spent teaching. That valuable time allocated to inefficient, administrative tasks could be better spent on actions that meaningfully impact student success—like working closely with individuals, identifying the best resources for curriculum, and crafting engaging lessons. 

That’s why PowerSchool created the new Personalized Learning Cloud, the first (and only) solution to offer everything teachers need all in one place. A PowerSchool Cloud provides centralized access to the digital tools you need to be successful in your role.  

The Personalized Learning Cloud connects learning, curriculum, and assessment, bringing together the most important teaching and learning software tools to support individualized, whole-child instruction. 

How the New PowerSchool Personalized Learning Cloud Helps 

You can ensure high-quality tiered instructional supports for all students by unifying assessment, planning, and instructional systems. Here are the top five ways the Personalized Learning Cloud works to increase curriculum efficacy, improve student outcomes, and save teachers time. 

1. Less Time Navigating, More Time Teaching   

The Personalized Learning Cloud consists of interoperable classroom tools, which means teachers can create standards-aligned lessons, organize course instructional materials, and embed assessments all from one location.  

With a single sign-on (SSO), educators can use one set of credentials to log into multiple apps at once, so it’s easy to toggle between teaching, assessing, and planning. This functionality helps prevent passwords from getting into the wrong hands and reduces the risk of cyberattacks.  

2. Centralized Access to Collaborative Curriculum  

When teachers come together to share best practices, knowledge, and resources, learning becomes more accessible and effective for students. Teachers can work together to plan a progression of topics that builds from what came before and connects across disciplines. Getting input from their peers can help teachers quickly identify where they’re strong and what gaps they need to address. 

The Personalized Learning Cloud provides easy access to a curriculum framework and ​improved vertical alignment between instruction and national, state, and local standards. The included high-quality curriculum mapping tools can raise the efficacy of instruction and support equity and access throughout a school or district. It also allows teachers to share information, ideas, and expertise. 

Standardizing the planning process and making lessons easier to create—thanks to centralized access to ready-made resources—benefits both teachers and students. It’s also a more efficient approach to transferring knowledge to new teachers. 

3. Quick Visibility into Learning Gaps and Focus Areas  

The results from the latest National Report Card, distributed by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), show declines in math and reading scores for fourth and eighth graders in the U.S. Math scores had the largest declines since NAEP testing began in 1990. Because each student could be at a different place in their learning journey, educators need tools and resources that offer quick visibility into knowledge gaps. 

The Personalized Learning Cloud helps students catch up by making it easier for teachers to note specific focus areas. This set of tools empowers educators to analyze student performance data to inform personalized instruction and identify, address, and eliminate unfinished learning. 

Teachers get a deeper understanding of student progress with comprehensive assessment management, including attendance and behavior data. This deeper insight equips educators with the information they need to personalize instruction and support individual needs with tailored learning content. Educators can get a clearer view of each student’s instructional needs using intuitive tools that identify student performance by learning outcome. As a result, they can more quickly identify students that may be off track or falling behind and take appropriate action.  

4. Individualized Learning Experiences for Every Student   

A learning management system (LMS) can be one of the most powerful tools in a teacher’s digital learning toolbox. The right platform allows every student to get an engaging digital learning experience specifically designed to meet their ongoing instructional needs.  

Within the Personalized Learning Cloud is a best-in-class LMS. Educators can customize their courses to fit classroom and individual student needs best. Each course design—self-paced, mastery learning, or gamified course—has unique benefits that can help teachers design the learning experiences that best serve their goals and their students.  

There are also built-in video communication tools and the ability to allow for student pacing, small groups, and individualized interventions, so teachers can keep the learning going from the classroom to the living room.  

5. A Place Where Everyone Can Connect 

The wide range of our LMS capabilities goes beyond saving teachers time on everyday tasks and being the backbone of self-paced, mastery learning, or gamified courses—it provides a central location where everyone can connect.  

Educators can set a course landing page to an updates feed or message board, so it’s the first thing students see when they log in. Teachers, students, and parents also get a place to communicate and collaborate outside of courses—which is ideal for sports teams, clubs, PLCs, parent-teacher organizations, and more. They can also use built-in communication tools, dedicated spaces to streamline collaboration, and Microsoft Immersive Reader to support closer connections between the classroom and home. 

One Central Location for Everything Your Teachers Need 

The Personalized Learning Cloud can help you make better use of student and teacher time by eliminating redundancies, inconsistencies, and gaps in learning. Best of all, your teachers get a single system for planning, teaching, and assessing, and students reap the rewards of better outcomes overall. Increase your ROI—return on instruction—by making it easier to plan, engage, monitor, and adjust instruction in one place.