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State rolls out Unified Insights dashboards to give districts dynamic student, attendance and intervention data
Summary
The department previewed Unified Insights (PowerSchool) dashboards that condense district data into dynamic, filterable charts and a student profile intended to speed teacher and principal access to attendance, behavior and intervention records.
The State Department demonstrated Unified Insights, a PowerSchool‑based analytics and student‑profile platform the department said will give districts dynamic dashboards for enrollment, attendance, behavior and interventions and a single student profile that compiles lifetime attendance, behavior, assessment and intervention records.
Stacy Royster, who led the demonstration, said the system provides heat maps of student residence, longitudinal attendance charts, behavior trends and drill‑downs from systemwide dashboards to an individual student “in three clicks.” She said the platform’s student profile will surface whether a child has had prior interventions and the status of those plans so receiving teachers can continue supports without waiting for paper records to arrive.
Royster showed how the tool populates student reading‑intervention plans (SREPs) with existing attendance, assessment and program data so teachers update only intervention decisions instead of reworking paperwork. The department said it loaded existing interventions and will train district teams in stages: dashboards first (November roll‑out), student plans in January, and intervention work starting in the spring leading into summer programs.
Security and data access were addressed: districts control access and Single Sign‑On passes permissions; classroom teachers see only rostered students while principals and district users see broader views tied to their roles. Royster said the department and PowerSchool coaches have completed security setup calls with districts, noting “I assisted all the districts. I had 160 separate phone call that I set up.”
Board members and department staff said the tool should reduce paperwork and make parent‑teacher meetings and PST (Problem‑Solving Team) meetings more productive by putting historical data and interventions in one place. The board asked the department to flag gaps where training has not reached individual teachers so rollout support can be targeted.
