For many school districts, fragmented data—siloed between products—is an unfortunate reality. Buying edtech and seeing it go unused after a year or so is also a typical frustration.

For Socorro Consolidated Schools, these situations happened too often. As a result, funds were wasted, and educators lacked helpful data to inform instruction.

Join Jeffrey Tull, Socorro’s Director of Technology, to learn what the district did to reverse this trend. When the district wanted to implement standards-based instruction, it turned to a reliable partner: PowerSchool, the provider for its SIS. Socorro chose PowerSchool Unified Classroom for classroom management and assessment, enabling standards-based testing and grading and integrates directly into PowerSchool SIS for shared, powerful data.

Here’s what Jeffrey says: “We don’t want to waste time getting data from one product to another. We want to focus on what we’re going to do with data, like reports principals can use to see struggling students. Or reports that let teachers see trends and how students are doing, compared to just seeing if you have failing students.”

PowerSchool’s unified solutions are improving the time that teachers have with students. Jeffrey says, “Technology doesn’t magically free up time and make things easier. But it helps you shift the workflow, and it helps you change your focus. We can do a lot more work with standards and prep on the front end.”