Meridian School District SIS

Intro:

Hello parents. I want to tell you about a great program our school district has set up for facilitating tracking of students and updates for parents. It is called “PowerSchool Premier.” This web-based program helps track students in a much more efficient manner and makes most of this tracking information available to you as parents 24/7.

The Guts:

Basically, this web-based program is designed to help parents and teachers keep track of each student’s progress at all times throughout the term. Progress reports are no longer necessary for you to keep tabs on your student’s progress prior to report cards. By simply logging on to the secure website with your personalized password, you will be able to access information such as:

• Assignment history
• Attendance record
• Any current school fees
• Lunch menus
• Grades
• Class/School Announcements
• Access 24/7

Not only does PowerSchool have these features to aid you as parents, it helps me, as a teacher, track students more quickly and accurately. This helps me keep track of strengths and weaknesses of all the students, and allows me to tailor my teaching to each student’s needs more effectively. Overall, it helps me be a better teacher and you be a more well-informed parent.

More In-Depth Understanding:

Here is a great presentation some graduate students did that details the features of PowerSchool Premier:




What I Will Do:

As you can see, this program will do a great job at streamlining my communication to you about your child’s progress. There are many features, as you saw, and I will be updating some more often than others. The information I will update at least twice a week will be:

• Grades
• Attendance (most likely daily)

Other information I will update at least twice a month will be:

• Missing Assignments
• Class/School Announcements

Through updating this information on this schedule, my hope is to help you stay informed and prevent the students from falling behind. As we all know, it can become very overwhelming for anyone when work starts piling up. This will provide an avenue for us to all tackle any past work in order to stay up to class speed.

Last, But Not Least:

This is a web-based program that will help all information flow more easily from teacher to parents and students. It makes all of our jobs much more efficient which, in the end, will help the students progress faster and more effectively. For more information, feel free to contact me or visit these links:

1. Live Webcast
2. The homepage of PowerSchool
3. Additional website about PowerSchool