PowerSchool is the leading K-12 education technology provider of solutions for over 100 million students, teachers, and parents in over 70 countries around the world. Through its suite of products and partner products, PowerSchool will provide Natick with an infrastructure that will power our school operations with integrated, innovative and easy to use technology now and into the future. PowerSchool replaces iPass by Harris Corporation.
Here are the PowerSchool modules that were installed in 2020-2021:
PowerSchool SIS manages all student information and administration needs, including scheduling, attendance, graduation progress, state compliance reporting, data management, and faculty management. PowerSchool will be used by all educators, students, and parents to increase engagement, simplify reporting, and drive student growth.
PowerSchool Enrollment provides a secure, online process that collects high-quality, accurate data configured to Natick's unique district requirements. Enrollment will make it easier for families to provide critical student information such as medical conditions and emergency contacts. New student enrollment data and returning student information is captured fairly, accurately and securely and it seamlessly integrates with PowerSchool SIS. PowerSchool Enrollment replaces EZSchool Enroll from Harris Corporation.
PowerSchool ECollect Forms allows schools to create digital forms that can be distributed via the Unified Classroom portal to parents at any time during the year to reduce manual data entry collected into PowerSchool. ECollect Forms provides better data collection and data management and the ability to track progress with simple one-click reports.
PowerSchool Unified Classroom puts parents, teachers and students in one secure portal, with one source of real time collaboration and communication. Teachers are provided the instructional and data analysis tools they need in the Unified Classroom Gradebook. They can enter attendance and scores easily with quick-fill technology. Preparing student progress reports, report cards, and class rosters that can be printed or emailed to parents and students is easy. Students and families have access to online grades from anywhere and real-time insight into a students progress to boost engagement. PowerSchool Enrollment, Special Program, ECollect Forms, and MBA Behavior modules interface with the PowerSchool Unified Classroom portal for single sign on access.
PowerSchool Unified Classroom Special Programs will replaces another legacy system from Frontline called eSPED. Special Programs will be tightly integrated into the PowerSchool SIS and Unified Classroom to provide better workflow, collaboration, reporting and compliance for students needing special services. DocuSign has been integrated to save parents and guardians trips to school with electronic forms and progress within in their parent portal.
PowerSchool Unified Talent modules manage the hiring process from requisition, to on-boarding, to retirement. This suite of products includes SchoolSpring Job Board, Applicant Tracking, and Employee Records. Applicant Tracking will replace Frontline's, AppliTrack Recruit product, enabling an automated and streamlined process from posting job requisitions, to hiring, to on-boarding, and then delivering all employee information to a single database, Employee Records. With Employee Records, Natick now has one source for all of its employees and their data in a secure and accessible Human Resources management system.
PowerSchool Mobile gives parents, guardians, and students secure and quick access to class overview, assignments due, graded assignments, attendance, and school bulletins via android and iOS mobile devices.
Year 3: 2022 - 2023 - 3rd Party Integrations/Customizations:
Evaluate Learning Management Systems integrated with PS - Evaluate LMS's including Schoology, Canvas, D2L.
Evaluate TeachPoint Replacement, Evaluate MTSS/RTI systems, Evaluate Behavior Management Systems, Evaluate Data Dashboard to replace Schoolzilla.
Implement PowerSchool Cloud Document Delivery Portal
Implement Graduation Progress for HS Guidance
Implement Open Portal for Special Programs
Implement Unified Talent eFinance HRMS for HR beginning in October 2022
My School Bucks - A school fee payment system used for lunch payments and other fees. We will use the Myschool Buck/PowerSchool integration for all NatickPS fees: Transportation, Technology, Athletics, and all School-based Fees.
ArXED Mandatory Training integrated with Unified Talent Records.
New Release of MBA Behavior Module with significant enhancements that we requested
New Transportation system Transversa from Versatran to integrate with PowerSchool SIS - Winter 2022
Year 2: 2021 - 2022 - 3rd Party Integrations/Customizations:
Identikid - Visitor Management and Attendance System will sync student lists to the visitor management system and when a student is tardy or early release it is recorded with our system, updated in PowerSchool automatically. We ran into an issue in September 2021 that this feature does not work the way we need it to. =. - Installed Custom API's from PureData that resolved this Issue. - Completed January 2022.
Evaluate HR DB Module for Unified Talent - eFinance HRMS Purchase and Implementation began March 2022. -On Hold in April until October 2022
Install Naviance connector for Guidance - Completed January 2022.
Implement new Scholarship Management System, AwardSpring for HS Senior Scholarships - Completed Spring 2022
Moodle Cleanup -Clean up Moodle removing all old courses and reducing login accounts from 5000 to 2000 for FY23. Completed Summer 2022.
Customizations to Power Teacher portal - Partially completed in January 2022. Remainder of customizations in Summer 2022 via new release and Puredata.
Customizations to MBA Behavior module - Partially completed in July 2022. Waiting for new release in summer 2022 for remainder of customizations.
Integrate Technology departments new Inventory and Ticket system with PowerSchool and Employee Records. Completed in February 2022.
OneSync for Staff - Completed Summer 2022
Develop ROSPs K-4 with No PII Data for ELL Translation. Completed May 2022.
YEAR 1: 2020 - 2021 - 3rd Party Integrations:
Integrated within PowerSchool SIS, our 3rd Party Vendor Partners play an important role in the Student Information System's data communication and management process and are critical for the overall automation and streamlined workflow. Below is the list of partners integrated with PowerSchool SIS:
Classlink - Single Sign On Portal with Rostering to Classroom Applications (One Roster)
MBA Behavior - A PowerSchool plugin that extends the number of fields available through Discipline log entries. Easily spot trends and internal notifications and encourages timely responses and follow-up to behavior incidents.
SNAP Health Center - A secure, web-based software suite that simplifies the K-12 school health clinic
TeachPoint and TeachPoint PD - Our Educator Evaluation System and Professional Development System
Classlink OneSync - Google Account Provisioning Server for Students. Implemented in Spring 2021.
School Messenger - To Replace Blackboard Connect for Communications/Translation System in May 2021.
SchoolZilla - Renaissance Data Dashboard from District to Classroom Level. Installed, April 2021 and tested with FY21 benchmark testing data in May-June 2021.