Houston Area School District is First in Texas to Add PowerSchool AI Assistant ‘PowerBuddy’ to Classrooms
27 September 2024 - 8:54PM
Business Wire
Tomball Independent School District and
PowerSchool partner to leverage the full power of Artificial
Intelligence.
PowerSchool (NYSE: PWSC), the leading provider of cloud-based
software for K-12 education in North America, today announced
Tomball Independent School District (Tomball ISD) in Tomball, Texas
has partnered with PowerSchool to pilot PowerBuddy, PowerSchool’s
AI-powered assistant. This pilot includes access to PowerBuddy for
Learning and PowerBuddy for Custom AI, which enhances the
district’s ability to personalize learning for students and
empowers teachers to educate more effectively through PowerSchool’s
responsible artificial intelligence tools designed for K-12.
Tomball ISD was recognized as the No. 1 district in Harris County
for five years in a row by Niche.com and is the first district in
Texas to pilot PowerSchool’s PowerBuddy.
“PowerBuddy will lighten the load on our teachers, give our
students a helping hand, and save time for everyone so that deeper
learning can occur within each lesson,” said Dr. Martha
Salazar-Zamora, Superintendent, Tomball Independent School
District. “PowerSchool’s commitment to responsible AI and its
natural integration with our existing edtech products made the
decision to add PowerBuddy an easy one for our district.”
PowerBuddy for Learning operates within PowerSchool Schoology
Learning as a personal assistant for both teaching and learning.
PowerBuddy for Learning saves teachers time by assisting in their
creation of contextual, high-quality assignments and instructional
content. Simultaneously, in Tomball ISD students will be able to
benefit from an always-available personalized assistant to support
them in the way they choose to learn. Students can interact in a
conversation with PowerBuddy, asking questions and getting
real-time responses that do not give the answer, but guide them in
the right direction. This is especially helpful in supporting
student progress at times when a student may otherwise be lost or
confused about a new concept, such as when they are completing an
assignment at home without a teacher or parent’s support.
PowerBuddy will bring AI to Tomball ISD’s existing data within
Schoology Learning instead of requiring the district to send its
data to the AI. This promotes a more robust experience for students
and teachers and heightens the security and privacy of the
district’s AI usage while delivering personalized insights,
fostering engagement, and creating a more supportive teaching and
learning environment.
PowerBuddy for Custom AI is a cutting-edge AI assistant allowing
users to ask specific questions and receive accurate, approved
answers, providing unencumbered access to district-specific
information through natural language prompts. Users can more
effortlessly find important details from district and school
information such as policy manuals, athletic schedules,
after-school programs, student handbooks, district calendars, lunch
menus, job postings and more with the help of PowerBuddy for Custom
AI.
In addition to PowerBuddy for Learning and PowerBuddy for Custom
AI, Tomball ISD also partners with PowerSchool to provide members
of their district with several additional products, including
Applicant Tracking, Employee Records, eSchoolPlus SIS,
eFinancePlus, and Predictive Enrollment Analytics.
Tomball Independent School District is in Harris County, Texas,
northwest of Houston. The district includes 22 schools plus two
specialty academies and educates more than 23,000 students. Tomball
ISD consistently ranks as a top school district in the Houston area
and among the 20 best school districts in Texas.
To learn more about the PowerSchool AI and PowerBuddy visit,
https://www.powerschool.com/powerschool-ai/.
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 60 million students in more than 90 countries and
over 18,000 customers, including more than 90 of the top 100
districts by student enrollment in the United States.
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