Personalized Learning Starts with Giving Teachers the Time and Tools to Thrive

Turbocharge your SIS and data by connecting to LMS, assessment, and analytics products

Personalizing a student’s education is easier said than done. For teachers—already overworked and strapped for time—finding more minutes and methods to individualize instruction can seem an impossible task.

It’s a missed opportunity, and ultimately, the student loses out on a chance to grow and reach the best opportunities in life.

The problem isn’t the teacher. Digging deeper, it’s likely because they don’t have the right edtech tools that share data in an efficient way. When you ask school and district leaders, nearly 75% believe personalized learning technologies can help teachers motivate students and differentiate instruction.¹ But only 41% of teachers feel they have the tools that enable them to provide personalized and effective education to students.²

Too many classroom edtech products live in silos and, unfortunately, aren’t built with efficient interoperability in mind. A teacher enters grades in their student information system, fills out lesson plans and scores in a learning management solution, and gives assessments in another. All of these processes take extra time. And what they end up with is multiple sets of data, living independently and unused, for each student.

Share and Share Alike: The Power of Integrated Edtech Products

PowerSchool is proud to offer the world’s most comprehensive classroom solution, bringing together award-winning functionality to deliver effective personalized learning. By combining industry-leading PowerSchool SIS, Schoology LMS, and Performance Matters Assessment and Analytics products, teachers can see a complete picture of the student. They can personalize instruction based on strengths and learning opportunities. And even without PowerSchool SIS, Schoology Learning, and Performance Matters products can integrate with your current SIS to give you better data for informed instruction.

Teachers get back more time when products share data. With PowerSchool, they have convenient access to one dashboard displaying compelling student performance data shared in real-time between the products. They can use that time and data visibility to look at each student’s strengths, weaknesses, and multiple data points to personalize the next steps based on: what they’ve already mastered, what the student needs to work on, and what additional behavioral and attendance factors may be impacting performance.

In one dashboard, here’s what the PowerSchool’s classroom products experience empowers teachers to do:

• Centralize all aspects of learning to get a complete view of every student, giving teachers all the tools they need in one solution
• Develop personalized learning paths based on specific student needs, enabling them to learn in their own way based on their learning styles
• Embed formative assessment for real-time feedback and adaption of individual learning plans
• Develop their own professional learning based on the instructional needs of their students
• Access students’ IEP and/or 504 plans to quickly know exactly which classroom accommodations to deliver that will set students up for success
• Put them on the same team with parents and students with real-time collaboration and communication

Improve Student Performance

Every district’s goal is to improve teaching and learning to drive student success. By providing Schoology Learning and Performance Matters in one intuitive environment, teachers have instant access to the most critical data. They can identify strengths and learning gaps to give each student a personalized educational experience for better understanding and achievement.

Save Time on Reporting

Schools and districts can easily import state assessments, third-party assessments, student demographic information, and roster data to create a “one-stop-shop” for educators when it comes to student data analytics. You can increase efficiency, provide holistic views into student progress, and create additional one-on-one time with students.

Put Teachers and Parents on the Same Team

The benefits of PowerSchool, Schoology Learning, and Performance Matters improve not only teacher and student classroom education experiences, but also the experience for parents and students at home. These solutions also improve interactions between students and parents or guardians at home. No longer do parents have to ask, “how was school today?” and hope for a detailed answer. Instead, they have a helpful interface that provides relevant learning experiences and easy-to-digest data that offers genuine insight into how to best support their child.

A Day in the Classroom

Mrs. Phillips, an 8^th-grade Math public school teacher, enters Shelby’s grades in PowerSchool SIS. All right there in PowerSchool, she can see that Shelby’s been absent four times in the last two weeks. Mrs. Phillips can also see Shelby’s assignment submissions, which she can grade and compare to previous work. She sees two recent C’s on using exponent rules as well as a pair of late submissions. In her last Algebra assessment, Shelby scored high in areas that test understanding of scientific notation but struggled again in a section on exponent rules.

From that information, Mrs. Phillips can see that Shelby needs to work more on mastering the fundamentals of exponent rules, including properties of integer exponents. She also checks in with Shelby’s parents to make sure everything is okay, based on the absences and late submissions. They schedule a parent-teacher-student check-in to talk about progress.

Through 360-degree views of Shelby’s performance, Mrs. Phillips can help get Shelby back on track in her academic path to success.

Go further with even more data to inform personalized learning decisions

The number of special education students continues to rise, reaching an all-time high of 7 million students in 2018. With PowerSchool Special Programs, along with Schoology Learning and Performance Matters, you can assess grades, IEPs, behavior, assignments, and more in one view. Give your students with special needs the personalized learning paths they need to be successful.

Another factor in personalizing learning is making sure your teachers have the training opportunities needed for their specific classrooms. By offering professional development in the same platform as LMS and student assessment data warehouse solution, administrators have a complete picture of all the data that’s generated daily throughout their district. They can make adjustments to staff professional learning plans in real-time as opposed to someone condensing the data from disparate solutions.

Integrated Products Lead to Personalized Learning Results

Put integrated, best-in-classroom solutions to work for your students. PowerSchool offers the first-of-its-kind, connected system that brings all the right classroom products together. With efficient and productive classroom management tools available alongside all student assessment and early warning data in a single intuitive platform, teachers get back valuable time to focus more on instruction and less on jumping between disparate solutions.

RESOURCES:

¹Digital Content Goes to School: Trends in K-12 Classroom E-Learning, ASCD.

²Primary Sources: 2012—America’s Teachers on the Teaching Profession, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.