Please Introduce Yourself!

[jbidk]

Our Community is a great place to connect with other PowerSchool users and exchange ideas.

Please share a bit about yourself such as your role, where you are from, which PowerSchool solutions you are currently using, and any additional areas of interest you'd like to include. 

Our Community would love to hear from you!

[joshk]

Good morning @MaryEvans1!

Welcome to the Community, we are glad to have you here!

JoshK

PowerSchool Community Admin

[Sboozer]

Hello Everyone,

Am excited to learn something new, well at least to me.  I have been teaching at the Community College level and now am moving to the NAF Spruce High School with some terrific young ladies. I have been teaching since 2004 first in Denver Colorado, and then moved to Arizona.  Due to the lack of greenery, I decided to come to Texas. Previous a C+ programmer before becoming a teacher but have managed to put the best of two worlds together and loving them both. 

Am new to PowerSchool and look forward to learning a lot. Anything you can do to help me will be accepted with open arms. 

Sandra Boozer

[JanD]

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@Sboozer wrote:

Hello Everyone,

Am excited to learn something new, well at least to me.  I have been teaching at the Community College level and now am moving to the NAF Spruce High School with some terrific young ladies. I have been teaching since 2004 first in Denver Colorado, and then moved to Arizona.  Due to the lack of greenery, I decided to come to Texas. Previous a C+ programmer before becoming a teacher but have managed to put the best of two worlds together and loving them both. 

Am new to PowerSchool and look forward to learning a lot. Anything you can do to help me will be accepted with open arms. 

Sandra Boozer

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Hello Sandra -

Welcome to the PowerSchool Community.  We are happy to have you here and look forward to working with you.  Please don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions or information to share with the Community.

We appreciate your participation in the PowerSchool Community.

JanD

PowerSchool Community Moderator

Remember to give Kudos to suggestions that help you! If a suggestion solves your issue, please select Accept As Solution on the post so others can see the solution, too!

[intekim]

Hi.

This is Hyounoh Kim from South Korea. I've been here just two weeks ago.

I visited here as a visiting scholar in JMU. I'll stay here for one year.

I hope my family will spend a great time in this beautiful area and my children will be happier in ROPS 

[Jaclynp]

Hi @intekim

Welcome to the PowerSchool Community!

Great to hear you will have a whole year to explore this beautiful country.

Thank you,

Jaclynp

PowerSchool Community Moderator

[DKenny-D100]

Hi, I'm David Kenny.  I'm Network Administrator for Belvidere Community Unit School District 100, in Belvidere, IL.  Belvidere is about 90 miles Northwest of Chicago, IL, about 20 miles south of the Northern border of Illinois and Wisconsin.  We have about 8,000 students and around 1,000 staff members.   

We use a selection of SIS products formerly managed by SunGard called eSchoolPlus 4.0 and BusinessPlus.  As of about a year ago, PowerSchool acquired these products.  I've worked here for about 12 years, now, but am only now tapped into the Technical Support contact list for eSchoolPlus/PowerSchool. 

I do some networking, but mostly software and hardware integrations for our school district.  One of the major ongoing tasks I've been working with for the last 10 years is SIF (Schools Interoperability Framework), which facilitates data sharing between the Student Information System (SIS) and other software products and services.  We currently integrate with a lot of different third party apps (since most of today's instructional technology is cloud-hosted) via SIF.  I'm here mostly to try to figure out how to best utilize the community to bring me up to speed on how to navigate PowerSource support and the SIF infrastructure at PowerSchool. 

I've been frustrated with no progress on two SIF-related tickets that I've submitted to PowerSchool support (PowerSource).  Although the tickets have been assigned, the assignees haven't even bothered to say hello in over a week.  Hence, I've come to the Community to see what useful intelligence I can gather on my own.  --David  

[AshleyK]

Hi David,

Thank you for your post in our community and introducing yourself. I have read your concerns and I will personally make sure to reach out the agents that are involved with your support tickets. If there is anything else that I can help you with, please feel free to send me an e-mail.

Thank you,

Ashley 

[DKenny-D100]

Thanks, Ashley.  I'm appreciative of your effort to help.  --David

[hdebenham]

  Hello!  I'm Holly Debenham and I teach 7th-grade life science in a middle school in Fairbanks Alaska. I've been teaching science at the middle school for 17  years.   Our School District recently purchased Power School Pro and I am (along with most of our teachers) adjusting to learning how to use Power School Learning after using Canvas for some years.  Our district transferred content from our Canvas Classes, however, some content seems to work while other content doesn't.  

We have an IT person to help with our transition.  I am interested in organizing my content into more coherent units that align with the NGSS Science Curriculum.    

[MichelleB]

Hi @hdebenham

Thank you for taking the time to introduce yourself.  I hope that you and your colleagues find this resource valuable as you complete this transition and get to know PowerSchool Pro.  New Knowledge Base articles are being added constantly, and the Forums are a great way to collaborate and learn from other Districts. 

Welcome!

[bfoster1993]

hi

Spoiler

 bri here , mother of one . happy to be apart of this great community

[StephanieS1]

Hello!

I am the Technology Support Specialist (PowerSchool Administrator) at South Callaway R-II School District in Mokane, Missouri.  We have been using PowerSchool since 2005.  I started at SC in 1999 as the high school secretary and moved over to Technology in 2013.

I am a huge fan of PowerSchool and am trying to implement new things and keep us as updated as possible.  We currently use e-Registration as well but will be switiching to PowerSchool Registration during this school year.

We also have a couple of third party vendors we use for payments and messages.

I rely on PowerSource quite a bit to get knowledge and am excited to start using the PowerSchool Community.

[JanD]

Hello Stephanie -

Thank you for your post in the PowerSchool Community. 

We are happy to hear that you are a huge fan of PowerSchool and are excited to have you as part of the PowerSchool Community.  Please feel free to reach out with any questions you may have, as well as respond to Customers' posts where you have the answers to their questions or suggestions for other users.

We appreciate your participation in the PowerSchool Community.

JanD

PowerSchool Community Moderator

Remember to give Kudos to suggestions that help you! If a suggestion solves your issue, please select Accept As Solution on the post so others can see the solution, too!

@StephanieS1 wrote:

Hello!

I am the Technology Support Specialist (PowerSchool Administrator) at South Callaway R-II School District in Mokane, Missouri.  We have been using PowerSchool since 2005.  I started at SC in 1999 as the high school secretary and moved over to Technology in 2013.

I am a huge fan of PowerSchool and am trying to implement new things and keep us as updated as possible.  We currently use e-Registration as well but will be switiching to PowerSchool Registration during this school year.

We also have a couple of third party vendors we use for payments and messages.

I rely on PowerSource quite a bit to get knowledge and am excited to start using the PowerSchool Community.

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[FrancesD1]

I work for the Elmwood Park Community Unit School district 401 in Elmwood Park IL. We are a smaller district outside of Chicago and one of the few K-12 districts in the Chicago area.  We have approximately 3000 students.  I am the PowerSchool/Student Data Manager for the district.  We have been using PowerSchool for 10 years now.

[JanD]

Hello FrancesD1 -

Welcome to the PowerSchool Community! 

Thank you for introducing yourself.  We are excited to have you as part of the PowerSchool Community and thank you for your commitment to the PowerSchool products.  Please feel free to reach out with any questions you may have, as well as respond to other Customers' posts where you have the answers to their questions or suggestions for other users.

We appreciate your participation in the PowerSchool Community.

JanD

PowerSchool Community Moderator

Remember to give Kudos to suggestions that help you! If a suggestion solves your issue, please select Accept As Solution on the post so others can see the solution, too!

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@FrancesD1 wrote:

I work for the Elmwood Park Community Unit School district 401 in Elmwood Park IL. We are a smaller district outside of Chicago and one of the few K-12 districts in the Chicago area.  We have approximately 3000 students.  I am the PowerSchool/Student Data Manager for the district.  We have been using PowerSchool for 10 years now.

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[Jcampbellk]

Hello!

My name is Jane Campbell. I'm PowerSchool administrator (and Apple technician) for a private, all-girls high school in Omaha, Neb. We have about 700 students in grades 9-12. I've been a PS admin since 2005 but I'm still learning every day.

We're currently on PS 11.0.5. Not quite ready to move to 12. We use Marcia Brenner plugins Report Card Creator and Café. Also have Phoenix Learning's School Forms for online registration. I love custom plugins and all the smart PowerSchool users around the world who generously share their knowledge through PSUG@grops.io. 🙂

[staceyb]

Hello, @Jcampbellk-

Welcome to the PowerSchool Community! 

Thank you for introducing yourself.  We are excited to have you as part of the PowerSchool Community and thank you for your commitment to the PowerSchool products.  Please feel free to reach out with any questions you may have, as well as respond to other customers' posts where you have the answers to their questions or suggestions for other users.

We appreciate your participation in the PowerSchool Community.

Kind regards,

Stacey

[jrand]

Hi,

I'm Joyce Rand, the District Data Techncian for Antelope Valley Union High School District in Lancaster, CA. Our district is using PowerSchool SIS, PowerTeacher Pro, and PowerSchool Registration. We've been on PowerSchool since 2009.

[staceyb]

Hello, @jrand -

Welcome to the PowerSchool Community! 

Thank you for introducing yourself.  We are excited to have you as part of the PowerSchool Community and thank you for your commitment to the PowerSchool products.  Please feel free to reach out with any questions you may have, as well as respond to other customers' posts where you have the answers to their questions or suggestions for other users.

We appreciate your participation in the PowerSchool Community.

Kind regards,

Stacey

[Shane-Whitford]

Hi everyone! My name is Shane Whitford and I recently joined the PowerSchool Community. My title is Training Specialist, but I am also the PowerSchool Learning administrator for the Diocese of Lincoln (Nebraska) Schools. We just started using PowerSchool Learning (PSL) this year and I already have some questions.

Thank you!

[jrand]

How can I change my user name from hrand to jrand? Clearly I was typing too quickly when I created my account.