PowerSchool Unveils Contextual AI Solutions to Reduce Teacher Workloads and Accelerate Student Learning
April 15 2024 - 5:00AM
Business Wire
AI tools designed to revolutionize classroom
efficiency and personalized education— PowerSchool PowerBuddy™ for
Learning and PowerBuddy™ for Assessment—now available to schools
and districts
PowerSchool (NYSE: PWSC), the leading provider of cloud-based
software for K-12 education in North America, announced today the
general availability of the first two PowerSchool PowerBuddy™
products designed for teachers: PowerBuddy for Learning and
PowerBuddy for Assessment. Founded on PowerSchool’s Responsible AI
principles and piloted by school districts representing over 1.5
million students, these Conversational AI assistants provide
support for teachers to enable personalized education in a way
never experienced before.
“With PowerBuddy as their safe and secure digital assistant,
educators for the first time gain superpowers, merging practical
efficiency, scalable personalized instruction, and prioritized
student engagement – a remarkable milestone as we welcome a new era
of education,” said Shivani Stumpf, Chief Product and Innovation
Officer at PowerSchool. “By integrating AI into Schoology and
Performance Matters - platforms widely trusted by millions of
educators daily - teachers can save hundreds of hours generating
student assessments and assignments, all without needing to master
a new learning curve, or manually transfer data between
disconnected standalone solutions. Bringing AI to teachers’
existing workflows significantly eases the district's change
management responsibilities, while concurrently addressing teacher
burnout, and tailoring instruction to meet the unique needs of each
student – unlike any other solution.”
PowerBuddy is an AI-powered assistant for everyone in education
and is designed to deliver adaptable, individualized experiences
for educators, students, administrators, and parents. PowerBuddy is
being integrated across PowerSchool’s family of products leveraging
Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Services technology.
PowerBuddy benefits teachers through these PowerSchool
products:
- PowerBuddy for Assessment reduces educators’ workload by
developing effective assessments for students, saving them valuable
time. It is available in PowerSchool Performance Matters, part of
the Personalized Learning Cloud. With PowerBuddy for Assessment,
questions and passages can be created in minutes, contextually
aligned to the data within the platform, including appropriate
grade level, learning standard, readability, and topic. This
heightened efficiency allows educators to assess student mastery
more frequently, significantly assisting in tackling the prevalent
issue of learning loss, while also offering an unprecedented level
of support for dual language programs and CTE courses — opening up
a wealth of new opportunities.
- PowerBuddy for Learning is the personal assistant for
teaching and learning and available in PowerSchool Schoology
Learning, part of the Personalized Learning Cloud. PowerBuddy makes
educators' lives easier by helping them easily create high-quality
assignments and instructional content. The student version of
PowerBuddy for Learning will be available in time for the 2024-2025
school year.
“I love the way my teachers would be able to use PowerBuddy to
create lessons and assessments that are more personalized for those
students and will have additional resources beyond what they are
given from their teachers,” said Kimberly Nidy, educator at North
Canton City School District in Ohio. “PowerBuddy has the potential
to make learning truly ubiquitous and engaging.”
These new PowerBuddy products are now available for purchase and
will be joined later by PowerBuddy for Data Analysis, Content,
Custom AI, College & Career, Engagement, and Coaching &
Mentoring. These additional PowerBuddy products are already being
piloted as part of PowerSchool’s AI platform expansion and will be
available for the 2024-2025 school year.
To learn more about PowerBuddy, visit
https://www.powerschool.com/powerschool-ai/ or watch a free,
on-demand webinar about PowerBuddy and AI in education:
https://www.powerschool.com/on-demand-webinar/ai-chat-bots/
About PowerSchool
PowerSchool (NYSE: PWSC) is the leading provider of cloud-based
software for K-12 education in North America. Its mission is to
empower educators, administrators, and families to ensure
personalized education for every student journey. PowerSchool
offers end-to-end product clouds that connect the central office to
the classroom to the home with award-winning products including
Schoology Learning and Naviance CCLR, so school districts can
securely manage student data, enrollment, attendance, grades,
instruction, assessments, human resources, talent, professional
development, special education, data analytics and insights,
communications, and college and career readiness. PowerSchool
supports over 50 million students in more than 90 countries and
over 16,000 customers, including more than 90 of the top 100
districts by student enrollment in the United States. Learn more at
www.powerschool.com.
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