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Monday November 9th 1:30 - 3:00**
 * SESSION 3

__**a DAY in the Life of a Powerful Secretary (part 1 of 2)**__

 * Facilitator**s: Annelise Woitulewicz & Margie Holdren
 * Affiliation**: Summit Academy Schools
 * Category**: Beg/Int, Secretaries
 * Type**: Sage on the Stage
 * Session**: 3 & 4
 * Description**: This session will provide training surrounding a typical day for a secretary using PowerSchool. We will take you through a typical day of a secretary and all the features used on a regular basis. We'll share tips on how PowerSchool works for us and what we do to manage the daily tasks in PowerSchool. Topics covered will include personalization, attendance, reports, daily bulletin, log entries, powerlunch and getting data out for daily inquiries.

__**Advanced Custom Pages Tips & Tricks**__
I will be compiling all of my best tips and tricks I've learned over the past few years for creating custom pages in PowerSchool.
 * Facilitator**: Jason Springel
 * Affiliation**: Pearson School Systems
 * Category**: Int/Adv
 * Type**: Lecture
 * Session**: 3
 * Description**:

__**Common Support Issues**__
We will have a discussion of some of the most common and/or avoidable customer support issues that Weidenhammer/Pearson receive. We will review what they are and provide you with the Knowledgebase articles for you to take back with you to your districts so you can avoid many of the mistakes that others have made. This is more informational only and no hands on demonstration of the issues.
 * Facilitator**: Joe Miller
 * Affiliation**: Washtenaw ISD
 * Category**:
 * Type**: Lecture
 * Session**: 3, 6
 * Description**:

__**Excel Tips & Tricks Using PS Data**__

 * Facilitator**: Shannon Cochran
 * Affiliation**: Cleveland Community Schools
 * Category**: Office Admins, School Admin
 * Type**: Hands on
 * Session**: 3, 7,
 * Description**: In this course users will learn how to build an Attendance Dashboard with information used to keep stats for school leaders. We are all asked from time to time how many students were enrolled on x date, or how about how many students transferred out during the month of September? Or my favorite... What was the Daily Attendance Rate for the month of October? In this course you will be taught how to use excel to track the data by using different searches, or reports found in PowerSchool to format the excel workbook. We will also briefly touch the uses of pivot charts. Please bring your laptop with MS Excel loaded. The trainer will be working with Excel 2003.

__**Graduation Issues**__
This session will provide instruction, tips, and tricks on screens related to high school graduation. Screens included are Graduation Sets, Historical Grades, Course Groups, Graduation Progress, Cumulative Info, and Transcript Reports.
 * Facilitator**: Al Momrik
 * Affiliation**: Waverly Community Schools
 * Category**: Counselors, Data
 * Type**: Lecture
 * Session**:3
 * Description**:

__**InfoSnap Presentation (VENDOR SESSION)**__

 * Facilitator**:Abby Lackey
 * Affiliation**: InfoSnap
 * Category**: Vendor Session
 * Type**: Lecture
 * Session**: 3, 5
 * Description**: Online demonstration of infosnap’s online re/registration offering we provide to PowerSchool school districts. Infosnap has worked with Pearson to provide Powerschool districts with a robust online re/registration process. We take school districts' annual registration forms, such as your health and emergency contact forms (and more!), and create custom online forms for families to submit electronically. We ease the paperwork burden for schools by eliminating some of the most tedious and time consuming paper processes, while at the same time ensuring accurate, updated student data. For returning students, we enable families to view their online registration forms already populated with their data from the previous year. The web-based tools we provide the school secretaries/registrars allows them to review the form data, print it if necessary, automatically format it to the requirements of their PowerSchool database, and feed it back into the database electronically.

__**Intro to Object Reports**__
In this session we'll cover the basics of creating object reports. Users are strongly encouraged to bring a laptop if they want some hands on experience; however, the topic is relatively fast paced (in order to cover the topic as completely as possible) with the goal of having time at the end for Q&A and demonstrations. Good pre-requisite for those of you hoping to attend the SysAdmin Conference in December.
 * Facilitator**: Debbie Fox
 * Affiliation**: Oxford
 * Category**:
 * Type**: :Lecture
 * Session**: 3, 4, 6 & 7
 * Description**:

__**Launching Parent/Student Access - Ed Dedic**__
In this session you will understand the process of rolling out Parent and Student access. Studies show that parent involvement drives student achievement, providing this great tool successfully will endure all parties involved will be on-board and embrace this great technology.
 * Facilitator**: Ed Dedic
 * Affiliation**: Pearson School Systems
 * Category**: Best Practices
 * Type**: 1+ Years
 * Session**: 3
 * Description**:

__**Make your data work for you… Troubleshooting thru data mining…**__
Troubleshooting through data mining. Troubleshooting requires a methodical approach that will point the PowerSchool Administrator to one of several remediation processes. Some may be as simple as having a staff member correct something in the portal while others may require data management by the Administrator or Pearson. How do you determine which process to follow? This session will lead the way by presenting a methodical approach using data mining principles. Attendees will have knowledge of DDE, match function, exporting to Excel and pivot tables.
 * Facilitator**: Phil Bettendorf
 * Affiliation**: Level Data
 * Category**:Data
 * Type**:Lecture
 * Session**: 3, 6
 * Description**:

__**PowerTeacher & Parent Connect Portals**__
In this session you will get an overview of the PowerTeacher and Parent Connect portals of PowerSchool. This is not desigend to teach you how to use PowerTeacher or setup a gradebook but a look into how data is presented and used by teachers. Additionally, you will be able to see how data is viewed by parents and students.
 * Facilitator**: Suzanne Maniaci and Carl Hoffman
 * Affiliation**: Monroe Schools
 * Category**:
 * Type**: Presentation
 * Session**: 3
 * Description**:

__**Reporting Basics - Beginners**__
This course will provide you with a basic overview of PowerSchool reporting, teach you how to create mailing labels and report cards, and explore object reports. We will explore the collaborative nature of PowerSchool reports and you will see how you can take reports that already exist and tweak them for your district.
 * Facilitator**: Dori Baldwin
 * Affiliation**: Kent ISD
 * Category**: Beginner
 * Type**: Lecture
 * Session**: 3
 * Description**:

__**Reports as an Administrator for Managing Student Interventions**__
In this session you will get an overview of the various attendance and academic reports that I use to manage student behavioral and academic interventions. In addition to the canned PowerSchool Reports, I will demonstrate our customized school wide gradebook reports that were programmed especially for us by interventionreports.com.
 * Facilitator**: Ryan McLeod
 * Affiliation**: Monroe Schools
 * Category**:
 * Type**: Lecture
 * Session**: 3, 7
 * Description**: