PowerSchool has reportedly announced that VUSD (Visalia Unified School District) has included multiple PowerSchool solutions to navigate improved educational results.
VUSD has included PowerSchool Unified Insights and PowerSchool Unified Classroom® Performance Matters as the foundation on its strong tech stack after using PowerSchool Student Information System (SIS) for many years.
Previously, the district benefitted from using the Unified Classroom® Schoology Learning of PowerSchool at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. With the execution of Performance Matters, Visalia will improve its capability to develop and distribute personalized evaluations as well as monitor student performance.
According to Andre Pecina, the Administrator Curriculum and Instruction at Visalia Unified School District, Performance Matters will enable the district to have a single evaluation tool, and Unified Insights offer a robust tool for data visualization.
Notably, Performance Matters allows VUSD schools to develop and provide comprehensive and formative evaluations. The outcomes can be viewed along with performance on behavior, attendance, third-party assessment, and even SEL survey data to assure that the instruction is specially developed to acknowledge learning loss and expedite learning gains.
The PowerSchool SIS was VUSD’s mainstay, but it was not until the COVID-19 outbreak that Schoology Learning became the main LMS (Learning Management System) of the district. In selecting an LMS, VUSD was seeking the ability to save and provide training content, assign training, track participation, report results, and activity, strong support, mobile access, as well as ease of use.
More prominently, the district wanted a platform to help students stay motivated and engaged. Since using Unified Insights, Visalia has been able to bring together all district data, gain access to dashboards with analytics and reporting, and make data-oriented decisions.
For the record, VUSD is located near the San Joaquin Valley of California. It serves nearly 32,000 students and hires a staff of 3,000 who offer educational services throughout 214 square miles.
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