PowerSchool Releases 2024 Education Focus Report Highlighting Key Priorities and Innovations in K-12 Education
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Key Findings of the 2024 Education Focus Report:
Personalized Learning Drives Student Success
The report highlights the demand for personalized learning approaches from students, parents, and teachers, emphasizing the need to tailor education to individual student strengths, needs, and interests. While competency and mastery-based models show promise, widespread adoption remains limited. Findings showed changing traditional beliefs about what education looks like is the number one hurdle to adopting more personalized learning systems.
Embracing AI in Education
The exploration of artificial intelligence (AI) in education is growing, with 70% of district leaders now seeing its potential to enhance teaching and learning, up from 53% in 2023.
"Our superintendent and teachers are using AI for administrative tasks,” said Dr.
Bold Leadership and Data Utilization Are Top Priorities
Effective leadership is crucial for building trust and driving change. The report underscores the importance of using data to gain a holistic understanding of students, with district leaders naming whole child analytics and data integration as a service as top priorities.
PowerSchool also explored leadership in a time of changing budgets. Education leaders shared that sometimes they must say "no" to certain investments or initiatives to prioritize impact for students and eliminate processes that don’t deliver. Among the top items to taper off or cut back, high on the list were staffing positions, purchasing new hardware devices, and tutoring programs. Software to streamline operational processes landed low on the "consolidate or stop entirely" list.
Evolving Education Workforce
The education workforce is undergoing significant changes, with new teachers seeking better work/life balance, professional development, and intuitive technology. Addressing vacancies, offering flexible development opportunities, and reducing workloads are key strategies to sustain the teaching profession.
Teachers named the top three things adding to their workloads that must be addressed for the profession to be more sustainable: Disruptive student behavior/crisis response, student intervention planning, and parent communication and engagement.
Strengthening School-Home Connections
Enhancing communication and engagement between schools and homes is vital for student success. The survey found that 87% say a “single pane of glass” solution that consolidates information would help improve communication between school and home. Simplified communication channels and engaging learning experiences are essential for improving attendance and family involvement.
The 2024 Education Focus Report was shaped in partnership with 18 education leaders – representing technology, teaching and learning, data, talent, and more – who comprise PowerSchool’s
To learn more about what PowerSchool heard from educators and what the future of education holds, visit https://www.powerschool.com/edtech-focus-report-2024/.
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