Personally, Bob has become a friend probably because I enjoy his fishing stories! Both he and Bill with PSISJS have been tremendously helpful to me as a new PowerSchool Coordinator.
VISUALPST USERS UPDATE
Again, Bob has been there to help us update the standards on the sever, assist with the updates to the templates, and again provided encouragement and support. He was able to help with making sure that the teacher’s gradebooks were set-up correctly and most importantly, focused on building the capacity of our team.Ī year down the road and the state’s standards have changed. He was there every step of the way to provide support and answer questions. Bob, who we still can’t pronounce the last name of has been extremely valuable to us. He had us analyze rubrics to determine what scoring system would work best for us, he urged us to get feedback from teachers, and truly made sure that we were really prepared as a district to move from traditional to standards based grading.įour English and four Spanish templates later we successfully rolled out standards based report cards to grades K4-2. He made sure that as an instructional team we didn’t leave any stones unturned. We appreciated from the start that Bob asked hard questions and really pushed our thinking. Long story short, we ended up bringing Bob back from PSUG with us to spend some time with us in our school district and begin the process of working on our standards based report cards. It just so happened that the infamous “Bob” was going to be attending PSUG Southeast in the following weeks and we were going to be there too. During the meeting, I remember all of us saying, “This Bob guy is really well known.” It became very clear that “Bob” was the go to guy for standards based report cards. He too highly suggested that we use his friend “Bob”. During our time with Bill Isard from PSISJS we discussed our desire and need for assistance with the standards based report cards. They said that he would be especially helpful in the initial set-up of the spreadsheets to import into PowerSchool and with the creation of the report card templates.Īround the same time, we were also working with PSISJS on PowerScheduler training. While meeting with them they continuously referenced a man named “Bob…with a last name you can’t pronounce”. I cannot recommend working with Bob enough to meet all your customization needs!Īs an instructional team, we began discussing moving to a standards based report card and consulted with a neighboring school district that had already embarked on this path. I cannot recommend working with Bob enough! He is knowledgeable, kind, funny, and very helpful.
VISUALPST USERS PROFESSIONAL
Not Bob though! He responds quickly and has answers for us in a prompt and professional manner.
VISUALPST USERS SOFTWARE
This is a lovely change from our previous experience with other software and SIS companies, as you usually have to put in a ticket and then wait for someone to contact you. Bob has been easily accessible when we have had questions or needed assistance troubleshooting our reports. He then provided us the proper training to continue to utilize the reports on an ongoing basis. He listened, provided feedback, and created a product that worked for our program. We connected with Bob and let him know what we needed. Prior to this our report cards were ancient and did not provide the necessary information. On the second night, a BBQ at the school and a walking tour of the nearby old town of Mdina provided further opportunities for networking and socializing.Bob is amazing to work with and has been so helpful as we transition to a school wide SIS program. In addition to their learning about PowerSchool, attendees toured Malta on an open-top bus tour of the island, followed by a group dinner in Malta’s capital city, Valletta. Attendees were also able to work collaboratively and get questions answered by the experts at an Open Lab session on the last day. Alex Toader and Sanja Kisicek taught on customization and VisualPST/Object Reports respectively. Romy Backus also taught sessions on customization, language translation, and how her school has used PowerSchool to transition to paperless reporting. The primary presenters were Greg Satterwhite, who taught multiple session focusing on scheduling, and Roger Sprik, who focused on topics related to customization, PowerSchool 8, and GPA/Honor Roll. The Archbishop’s Seminary have been strong supporters of the European PSUG since its founding and were excited to serve as the hosts of the 2014 conference.ģ2 people from 19 different schools attended sessions over three days. The 2014 Conference took place September 25-27 at The Archbishop’s Seminary in Rabat, Malta.
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