Case Study
Weld RE5J School District
4321 109th Avenue NE >> Blaine, MN 55449 >> 800 850 2335 >> Transforming K12 Education® CHALLENGES Weld RE5J Technology Contact and Teacher Coach, Heidi Hammer-Skinner, has worked in the district for 12 years. “I didn’t know SQL well or how to write scripts, and with PowerSchool SMS, I needed to know how to do those things to get the reports I needed that were not built in. Also, information was not in real time, and the system was not user friendly for district staff. ” “Our district data was not integrated, and we also had to purchase sev- eral third-party systems; one was K12 Planet, for our parent portal. Student information was uploaded nightly, so it was not in real time, ” remembered Hammer-Skinner. “It was hard to get the parents to participate when infor