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The Business Case for
PowerSchool Learning BIGGEST ROI BENEFITS
Reduces printing costs
While there are a number of tools now available to help teachers manage their curriculum and assignments, many are difficult to use or do not provide the desired robust functionality in an intuitive format. Through in-depth interviews with PowerSchool Learning customers, research found that the product is not only strategic in terms of improving efficiencies and student performance, but also delivers a quick and compelling ROI (Return on Investment).
Customer research identified four quantifiable benefits that PowerSchool Learning provides:
1 Reduces teaching-related printing costs Improves teacher productivity
PowerSchool Learning digitizes the curriculum, content and course assignments, as well as parent communications, with flexibility to also print as needed.
Customers interviewed experienced a reduction in teacher-related printing by well over 30%. Improves parent communication
We reduced printing by moving to a digital classroom by 100%, which was about $90K in annual savings. - Deb Fox, Senior Technology Consultant, Oxford Community Schools, MI
2 Improves parent communications Improves student performance
PowerSchool Learning makes student information easily available to parents through a mobile-friendly and easy-to-use Parent Portal and helps drive parent support through real-time grade and assignment updates and push notifications, with multiple languages supported in order to remove language barriers.
Customers interviewed shared that teachers spent 20% less time on parent communication. Customer Research Conducted by
PowerSchool Learning affects every part of communication at the district, from the superintendent to the principal to the teacher and their parents. - Jay McPhail, Assistant Superintendent of Innovation, Fullerton School District, CA
3 Improves teacher productivity PowerSchool Learning provides teachers with the ability to quickly create curriculums, lesson plans, and course content, while also streamlining assignment management and the ability to offer differentiated instruction. They are easily able to use a blended learning model by accessing and sharing content from multiple sources, including YouTube, Khan Academy, TED, Prezi and more. In addition, teachers can collaborate with each other across the entire PowerSchool user community and share lesson plans, best practices and learning content. This frees up time for teachers to spend on improving student performance.
Customers interviewed reported teacheres reduced time spent managing instruction by more than 10%. PowerSchool Learning truly lets our teachers focus on learning and not technology... even our anti-technology teachers have seen that it saves them time.
4 Improves student performance
- Jay McPhail, Assistant Superintendent of Innovation, Fullerton School District, CA
PowerSchool Learning allows teachers to personalize learning and use social learning and collaboration to increase student engagement. In addition, teachers can analyze real-time data from multiple sources to truly understand student progress and adjust instruction to drive growth.
Customers interviewed agreed that improved classroom learning resulting from PowerSchool Learning has the potential to increase funding by 0.1%. PowerSchool Learning helps improve performance of kids that might have been lost before by making assignments and educational content available to both them and their parents to reinforce learning, which is especially helpful if they were absent. - Deb Fox, Senior Technology Consultant, Oxford Community Schools, MI
KEY ROI FINDINGS The value of PowerSchool’s validated learning management product is immediate and demonstrable. A sample district with 20,000 students and 1,065 teachers can experience annual benefits in excess of $4.5M with a payback period of 1.2 months and a 3-year ROI of over 2,300%.
In summary, 4 discrete organization-wide learning management benefits were identified during the customer interviews as depicted in the graph below:
FINANCIAL METRICS Payback
1.2 months
ROI (3-year)
2,376%
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