Kelly’s Story: Building a Positive School Environment
As an elementary school principal, Kelly collaborates with her staff to ensure student growth and improve outcomes. She does this by fostering positive student behavior, hiring and retaining effective teachers, and engaging families within her community. See how this principal provides her staff with access to all the digital tools they need to help students succeed.
Kelly's Challenge: Building a supportive school environment
As a principal, Kelly strives for a school climate that fosters positive student behavior, retains passionate teachers and staff, and engages families to boost involvement. She wants to strike a balance between enforcing discipline and creating a supportive environment where students can grow socially, emotionally, and academically. She also wants to attract high-quality candidates, implement strategic hiring practices, foster a positive school culture, and support professional growth. And by maintaining open communication with families, she can create a sense of shared responsibility and partnership.
Kelly’s Solution: Usable data that can inform decisions
With better tools built to deliver better student outcomes, Kelly can implement a positive behavior framework that establishes clear expectations, supports teachers, and provides relevant interventions and supports. She can also use talent software products to build and sustain a high-quality, dedicated team, and communication tools to empower strong, collaborative relationships with families and communities to support student success and enhance the school experience.
Creating a supportive, positive school environment benefits students, staff, and families
By partnering with a dedicated edtech provider, Kelly was able to improve student behavior, attendance, and learning. She implemented talent software tools to recruit, develop, and support effective educators, and keep communities informed with our secure and centralized engagement hub.
Challenges
- Student behavior and engagement issues
- Staff retention and shortages
- Uninvolved, uninformed families
- Siloed information about each student
Solutions
- Student intervention and engagement
- Strategic hiring and PD delivery
- Communications and engagement hubs for all families
- Centralized data and analytics
Providing school staff with the digital tools they need to succeed in their role
By partnering with a company like PowerSchool, Kelly feels confident that her district’s edtech provider is committed to building a positive school culture possible for students, staff, and families. Working together, they bring together the people and innovative K-12 technology needed to truly make an impact.
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