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Company: PowerSchool
Company Description: PowerSchool is the leading provider of cloud-based software for K-12 education in North America. Its mission is to power the education ecosystem with unified technology that helps educators and students realize their full potential, in their way. PowerSchool supports over 45 million students and 12,000+ districts, schools, and other education institutions in over 90 countries.
Nomination Category: New Product & Service Categories - Education
Nomination Sub Category: Administrative Solution
 Nomination Title: PowerSchool SIS
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- If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this first question: If this is a brand-new product, state the date on which it was released. If this is a new version of an existing product, state the date on which the update was released:
December 21, 2021
- If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this second question: Describe the features, functions, and benefits of the nominated product or service (up to 350 words):
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PowerSchool is the leading provider of cloud-based software for K-12 education in North America. Its PowerSchool Student Information System (SIS) is the leading one for K-12 education. It plays a central role in schools and districts as it covers all administration needs including scheduling, attendance, reporting, data management, faculty management, emergency/medical and health management, and more. PowerSchool SIS also offers flexibility and the ability for many different products to work together and share information to meet current hybrid education demands and needs into the future.
PowerSchool SIS users can easily and efficiently navigate through the system, leveraging key features such as an intuitive user interface, configurable fields and pages, and customizable reporting to access and manage student data. The system boasts an industry-leading digital gradebook supporting both standards-based and traditional grading. PowerSchool SIS is fully web-based, flexible, configurable, and scalable with real-time updates on any operating system, browser, or device.
PowerSchool SIS can streamline a teacher’s day, as well as give them better, more insightful data pulling from multiple sources with industry-leading interoperability, allowing systems to communicate, work together, and easily exchange data between one another. These benefits, combined with a large, engaged user community allow district leaders to meet evolving instructional scenarios alongside their peers in education.
PowerSchool SIS delivers:
- Improved parent engagement and student accountability through the PowerSchool mobile app and student and parent portals
- Peace of mind based on adherence to the highest data security standards for safe, secure, data
- Interoperability with other PowerSchool solutions and an extensive network of partners for widescale compatibility
- Simplified student insights and compliance with accurate state or provincial compliance reporting to ensure maximum school funding
PowerSchool broke ground with the first K-12 web-based SIS and is now recognized as the industry leader. PowerSchool SIS enables educators to make timely decisions that impact student performance, while creating a collaborative environment for parents, teachers, and students to improve outcomes.
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PowerSchool SIS is adaptable to school and district needs. Users can customize the SIS quickly, easily, and without needing coding knowledge or vendor help, to collect key data that supports district’s unique needs. A New Jersey school district continually customizes its PowerSchool SIS to meet their unique needs, by creating plugins to optimize web pages, teacher portals, and parent pages. They then share their customizations with other PowerSchool users to leverage.
PowerSchool SIS delivers unmatched expertise. Users can get the help they need via robust support resources from both PowerSchool and the SIS user community. After attending PowerSchool University (PSU), an event held where educators learn valuable solutions, strategies, and techniques for everyday PowerSchool responsibilities, a Colorado charter school had their expectations exceeded. For novice to advanced PowerSchool users, PSU offers a wide variety of courses taught by certified PowerSchool trainers. The charter school educators noticed the professionalism and friendliness of every staff member and their willingness to go the extra mile to get the school’s questions answered.
Users have noticed the flexibility of PowerSchool SIS as well. ‘‘PowerSchool’s strength is flexibility, and because of that flexibility, a school district can align PowerSchool’s presentation of information more closely to its vision for what matters to students,” Dustin Ludwig, Information Specialist, Goshen County School District in Wyoming said. “The information they receive from their SIS is presented not in a way that serves some prototype school district, but in a way that has been tailored to their specific school district.’’
Educators can also get reports they need quickly and easily. ‘‘PowerSchool SIS has been a godsend for us,” Levi Sponeyberger, PowerSchool Administrator, Salamanca City School District in New York said. “We are a unique district that receives impact aid, federal aid and federal funds that we have reporting to do for the government. Before, we were running multiple reports just to get the information, but now everything is at the click of a button, and it is easily accessible for us.’’
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