| Wednesday 8:30 - 9:30PM |
| SESSION: 25 PowerSchool State Reporting Roadmap for 2012 |
| Rose Craighead, Pearson |
| Salon 8 Wednesday 8:30 - 9:30PM Capacity: 260 |
| What lies ahead for PowerSchool State Reporting through 2012. This will include new features and planned releases. |
| AUDIENCE: All |
| Wednesday 8:30 - 9:30PM |
| SESSION: 26 Q&A |
| - TBA, |
| Swiss 1 Wednesday 8:30 - 9:30PM Capacity: 44 |
| Q&A |
| AUDIENCE: All |
| Wednesday 8:30 - 9:30PM |
| SESSION: 27 Custom Web Page Management |
| Evelyn Bragg, Resources and Methods, Inc |
| Swiss 2 Wednesday 8:30 - 9:30PM Capacity: 44 |
| This session will provide an overview on how to use Custom Web Page Management. Topics include: Enabling Custom Web Page Management; Migrating existing pages; uploading files; Publishing files; Reverting to original pages |
| AUDIENCE: All |
| Wednesday 8:30 - 9:30PM |
| SESSION: 28 A Proactive Approach to Data Collections |
| JoAnne Horton, Burke County Public Schools |
| Kenyan 1-2 Wednesday 8:30 - 9:30PM Capacity: 88 |
| Be a Boy Scout, Be Prepared! Time saving tips and tricks to prepare for data collections. |
| STRAND: N/A AUDIENCE: All TYPE: SIS |
| Wednesday 8:30 - 9:30PM |
| SESSION: 29 Form Letters and Mailing Labels |
| Melody Thomas, |
| Italian 1 Wednesday 8:30 - 9:30PM Capacity: 44 |
| PowerSchool provides administrative users the ability to create customized letters and mailing labels. In this session, attendees will review the form letter feature and learn tips and tricks for creating a letter complete with student information and personalized pronouns. The top secret strategy for aligning mailing labels will also be revealed! |
| STRAND: N/A AUDIENCE: All TYPE: SIS |
| Wednesday 8:30 - 9:30PM |
| SESSION: 30 PowerSchool's Backside/The Junk in the Trunk |
| Ed Dedic, Pearson |
| Italian 2 Wednesday 8:30 - 9:30PM Capacity: 44 |
| PowerSchool Premier has great additional functionality. How does that impact our school and my job? What does having access to the back end database mean? The power is in the data, find how you can use common tools you are comfortable with to analyze live PowerSchool data in real time. See how PowerSchool’s backside can help my students achieve their goals. |
| AUDIENCE: Advanced |
| Wednesday 11:00 - 12:00PM |
| SESSION: 31 An hour with Rose Craighead, PowerSchool State Reporting Analyst for GA |
| TBA (Pearson), |
| Salon 8 Wednesday 11:00 - 12:00PM Capacity: 260 |
| Spend an hour with Rose Craighead to talk about PowerSchool State Reporting. Rose has been the helping Georgia customers by transforming customer feedback into the design of PowerSchool State Reporting offering for years. Come talk with Rose to find out best practices and better understand State Reporting in PowerSchool. |
| AUDIENCE: All |
| Wednesday 11:00 - 12:00PM |
| SESSION: 32 Q&A |
| - TBA, |
| Swiss 1 Wednesday 11:00 - 12:00PM Capacity: 44 |
| Q&A |
| AUDIENCE: All |
| Wednesday 11:00 - 12:00PM |
| SESSION: 33 Overview of Student Record |
| Flora Contreras, Buford City Schools |
| Swiss 2 Wednesday 11:00 - 12:00PM Capacity: 44 |
| Student Record reporting may seem far away, but you can get ready for it today! Learn how to get the data in PowerSchool now so you don't have to struggle with it later, use pre-built macros to read that crazy extract and more! |
| AUDIENCE: All |
| Wednesday 11:00 - 12:00PM |
| SESSION: 34 SLDS |
| Sandy Josephat, |
| Kenyan 1-2 Wednesday 11:00 - 12:00PM Capacity: 88 |
| Come see the newest information and upcoming enhancements available in the State Longitudinal Database System! |
| AUDIENCE: All |
| Wednesday 11:00 - 12:00PM |
| SESSION: 35 Google Maps API |
| Richard Matthews, |
| Italian 1 Wednesday 11:00 - 12:00PM Capacity: 44 |
| Google Maps has become very useful for quickly looking up addresses and getting directions to a location. Come explore how to customize your PowerSchool pages to incorporate Google Maps. We will see how to place a simple link to Google Maps on your web page. Then we will see how to use the Google Maps API (Application Programming Interface) to incorporate maps, calculate a student’s distance from school, and other useful calculations into your PowerSchool pages. |
| STRAND: N/A AUDIENCE: Intermediate TYPE: SIS |
| Wednesday 11:00 - 12:00PM |
| SESSION: 36 Pearson Mobile: PowerSchool/PowerTeacher/Schoolnet on Mobile Devices |
| Ed Dedic, Pearson |
| Italian 2 Wednesday 11:00 - 12:00PM Capacity: 44 |
| PowerSchool Mobile is designed for administrators and teachers to quickly and easily access PowerSchool from mobile devices. See the wildly popular PowerTeacher Gradebook Mobile App for the iPad in action where teachers can be spending more time around the classroom than behind a desk entering grades and lessons. With Schoolnet Mobile, administrators and teachers will have an interactive view of your institution’s Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Schoolnet Mobile application also provides an interactive view of all of the benchmark assessments administered in your institution. The top level view displays each test administration grouped by subject, with average percent correct. You may select any test to drill down for additional disaggregated detail. All this aligned digital content, assessments, analytics, and next generation web tools right in the palm of your hand to help drive instruction. |
| AUDIENCE: All |
| Wednesday 1:30 - 2:30PM |
| SESSION: 37 FTE / State Reporting Update |
| TBA (DOE), |
| Salon 8 Wednesday 1:30 - 2:30PM Capacity: 260 |
| Updates on changes for the new year in FTE and State Reporting. |
| AUDIENCE: All |
| Wednesday 1:30 - 2:30PM |
| SESSION: 38 Q&A |
| - TBA, |
| Swiss 1 Wednesday 1:30 - 2:30PM Capacity: 44 |
| Q&A |
| AUDIENCE: All |
| Wednesday 1:30 - 2:30PM |
| SESSION: 39 Report Cards - Getting Out What You Need |
| Kathy Davies, Lamar County Schools |
| Swiss 2 Wednesday 1:30 - 2:30PM Capacity: 44 |
| Report cards with dropped courses? The wrong grades? Courses for the next term? We'll talk about not only setting up your report card report but how to run the report to get what you need on them. |
| AUDIENCE: All |
| Wednesday 1:30 - 2:30PM |
| SESSION: 40 Tunneling with PowerSchool 7 |
| Priscilla Willis, Pike County BOE |
| Kenyan 1-2 Wednesday 1:30 - 2:30PM Capacity: 88 |
| During this session we will discuss the steps you need to take for the SLDS Tunnel to work in PowerSchool 7. We will also cover how and what to send to the DOE for your students and Teachers to show up on the SLDS side. |
| AUDIENCE: All |
| Wednesday 1:30 - 2:30PM |
| SESSION: 41 T.B.A. |
| Italian 1 Wednesday 1:30 - 2:30PM Capacity: 44 |
| Wednesday 1:30 - 2:30PM |
| SESSION: 42 New PowerTeacher Gradebook features for 7.x |
| (Pearson), |
| Italian 2 Wednesday 1:30 - 2:30PM Capacity: 44 |
| PowerTeacher advances Pearson’s vision of redefining and delivering next-generation classroom tools. Come see how Pearson has made this great tool even better with the 7.x release. |
| AUDIENCE: All |
| Wednesday 3:15 - 4:15PM |
| SESSION: 43 Best Data Practices for State Reporting |
| Wanda Jones, GA DOE |
| Salon 8 Wednesday 3:15 - 4:15PM Capacity: 260 |
| Best practices for preparing and entering all that data! Reporting time is about more than just getting the data out…you spend all year putting it in, let's discuss and share what works and what doesn't to make the process less frustrating for your district. |
| AUDIENCE: All |
| Wednesday 3:15 - 4:15PM |
| SESSION: 44 Q&A |
| - TBA, |
| Swiss 1 Wednesday 3:15 - 4:15PM Capacity: 44 |
| Q&A |
| AUDIENCE: All |
| Wednesday 3:15 - 4:15PM |
| SESSION: 45 Data Clerks and PowerSchool |
| Kathy Davies, Lamar County Schools |
| Swiss 2 Wednesday 3:15 - 4:15PM Capacity: 44 |
| Get the data when you need it! Learn to set up PowerSchool to keep the pages you use most at your fingertips, search with ease, get enrollment counts for special groups and more! |
| AUDIENCE: All |
| Wednesday 3:15 - 4:15PM |
| SESSION: 46 Setting Up Standards |
| Priscilla Willis, Pike County BOE |
| Kenyan 1-2 Wednesday 3:15 - 4:15PM Capacity: 88 |
| Is your district talking about standards? Do you want to run and hide? Come see how one district is setting up standards and get ideas for preparing and entering them in your district. |
| AUDIENCE: Intermediate |
| Wednesday 3:15 - 4:15PM |
| SESSION: 47 Importing and Using Test Scores and Related Student Data |
| Troy Palmer, Elbert County Schools |
| Italian 1 Wednesday 3:15 - 4:15PM Capacity: 44 |
| Don't enter test scores by hand--import them! In this session, you'll learn the basics of how to import test scores, how PowerSchool manages the data, and how to export test score data from multiple assessments into Excel. Also included will be instructions on how to pull student demographic information from PowerSchool for pre-ID data verification. |
| AUDIENCE: Intermediate |
| Wednesday 3:15 - 4:15PM |
| SESSION: 48 T.B.A. |
| Italian 2 Wednesday 3:15 - 4:15PM Capacity: 44 |