As you may know, we are preparing for the launch of our PowerTeacher Pilot. PowerTeacher will carry us into the future as PowerSchool's new portal for teacher entry into the PowerSchool system.

PowerTeacher is web-based, meaning that it can be used throughout our school buildings, at the library, and at home on up-to-date web browsers on a Mac, a Windows-based machine, or even a computer running Linux!

PowerTeacher is not simply PowerGrade moved from the hard drive to the Internet. PowerGrade has its origins in software that was originally created in 1982, before a number of current District 21 teachers were born and before computers, DVD players, digital video recorders, and mp3 players filled our homes. During the past quarter century, new research into the human brain, the development of language, and the processes of learning have led to advancements in the classroom, too.

PowerTeacher seizes on such such changes. PowerTeacher is software designed for the world in which District 21 students and teachers live. It allows for the entry of individual assessments from exit slips to quizzes that you may want to analyze and utilize but not include in the child's trimester grade. PowerTeacher can do this. It has far more student grouping capability than does PowerGrade, and because it is web-based, it facilitates collaboration among team members--even if they are not all in the same room at the same time.

While there will be a limited number of slots as "pilots" available for PowerTeacher's pilot this year, there is no time like now to begin reading about the potential it holds for classroom instruction and the management of other important elements of teaching. Click here to begin learning more!