Preparing students for life after high school requires more than test scores — it demands a holistic view of academic achievement, personal growth, and career readiness. The Illinois Board of Education established detailed readiness indicators to measure this progress, including grades, attendance, SAT scores, extracurricular service hours, AP courses, AP test results, and even resume‑building skills.

Faced with the challenge of efficiently tracking such a wide range of indicators, one district turned to the CareerTrack 360 plugin to create a comprehensive solution. The result was a Career and College Readiness Dashboard that seamlessly pulled data from multiple sources and presented it in a clear, actionable dashboard.

This powerful tool empowers both students and counselors: students gain visibility into their readiness journey and can build resumes that showcase their accomplishments, while counselors access a transparent, data‑driven view to guide conversations and planning. Together, it ensures every student is equipped with the tools and insights they need to succeed beyond high school.

For small school districts with limited IT resources, the burden of manually collecting data and generating reports can quickly become overwhelming. One district found that this backlog of projects was preventing staff from addressing other critical needs and slowing down support for educators.

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By implementing the CareerTrack 360 plugin, the district automated its data integration and reporting processes. What once required hours of manual effort was now streamlined into a seamless workflow, freeing valuable time for the IT department and reducing delays across the system.

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The result was a smarter, more efficient approach that allowed teachers to spend less time waiting on reports and more time focusing on what matters most — their students.

Supporting struggling students is one of the most critical challenges districts face. One district transformed its approach by leveraging the CareerTrack 360 plugin to proactively identify and support students at risk of failing.

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Grades, attendance, and credit status were seamlessly pulled from PowerSchool each week, ensuring no student slipped through the cracks. With the CareerTrack 360 communication module, educators collaborated to design personalized action plans that targeted the specific areas where students needed the most help.

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The impact was remarkable: failing grades dropped from 7.8% to just 3.8%, a powerful testament to how data‑driven insights and proactive communication can turn challenges into success stories.

To boost engagement and ensure consistent communication with students and families, a K–12 school district implemented CareerTrack 360. The platform extracts student and parent email addresses along with key data points such as grades, credit status, and attendance. 

With CareerTrack 360, the district can track all historical communications and notes for each student, creating a comprehensive engagement record. 

The CareerTrack 360 webhook monitors email delivery status such as whether messages were opened, delivered but unread, caught in spam filters, or bounced.  giving staff clear visibility to ensure emails are being delivered and read. 

Additionally, the district sends periodic performance updates to parents, including GPA, attendance, credit status, ACT and STAR scores, along with encouraging messages to foster partnership and support student success.

Like many districts, this team recognized the importance of common assessments to ensure equity and consistency across classrooms. Yet the tools they had in place weren’t meeting that need. What they envisioned was a paper‑based assessment with open‑ended questions aligned to their Learning Targets — with results flowing seamlessly into PowerTeacher Pro.

Previously, the process relied on individual teachers to design, administer, and manually enter assessments into grade books. This approach created extra workload and limited consistency across classrooms.

By implementing the CareerTrack 360 plugin and assessment platform, the district automated the entire process. Paper‑based assessments with open‑ended questions were aligned directly to Learning Targets, and results were automatically pushed into PowerTeacher Pro.

Now, grade‑level teams can focus on what matters most: using shared data to drive meaningful conversations. The shift from isolated efforts to a unified, data‑driven system has transformed assessment into a powerful tool for equity and continuous improvement.

Placing incoming freshmen in the right courses is critical to setting them up for success. One district wanted a placement process that was both challenging and supportive, ensuring every student entered high school with confidence.

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Using the CareerTrack 360 plugin, the district designed a thoughtful, data‑driven system that combined 7th and 8th grade course performance with standardized test scores to create clear pathways into freshman courses. The solution featured an easy‑to‑use interface that displayed key data alongside recommended placements, giving educators a transparent view of each decision.

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Importantly, the system also incorporated insights from 8th grade teachers, ensuring professional judgment complemented the data. This balanced approach provided equity across classrooms, challenged students at the right level, and built a strong foundation for their high school journey.

Faced with the challenge of motivating underachieving students, one school district sought to create an incentive‑based program that would inspire accountability and improved academic performance. Their idea was simple yet powerful: grant juniors and seniors who met eligibility requirements the privilege of leaving campus for lunch.

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To make this program efficient and easy to manage, the district turned to the CareerTrack 360 plugin. By automatically extracting student grades and parent emails, the solution streamlined the entire process — from verifying eligibility to communicating with families.

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The result was a program that not only encouraged higher achievement but also fostered responsibility among students, while reducing administrative workload for staff.

For one school district, managing student eligibility for sports and extracurricular activities had become a time‑consuming and inefficient process. While they were already using one of our dashboards to track grades, they needed a way to streamline eligibility checks and reduce the manual workload for staff.

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By leveraging the CareerTrack 360 plugin, we delivered a tailored solution that automated the entire eligibility process. Custom dashboards and tools transformed their workflow, making eligibility tracking faster, more efficient, and immediately actionable.

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The result was a seamless system that saved valuable time, ensured accuracy, and empowered educators and coaches with real‑time insights into student eligibility.

One district, deeply committed to supporting children with complex learning disabilities and related challenges, set out to create a highly individualized approach to education. Their vision was to capture a wide range of assessments — including DIBELS, SRSD, Bridges, and Phonics — while producing clear, easy‑to‑understand reports that highlighted each student’s growth.

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To achieve this, the district designed a series of one‑to‑one assessments that collected meaningful data and generated personalized progress reports. The process was powered by daily updates from the CareerTrack 360 plugin, which seamlessly provided rosters and other key data to keep everything current.

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This unified approach not only streamlined the monitoring process but also gave educators actionable insights to guide instruction. Most importantly, it ensured that every student’s progress was visible, supported, and celebrated.

One district recognized the need for a comprehensive, district‑wide curriculum map to ensure every classroom was aligned with state standards. Teachers wanted clarity, consistency, and shared resources that would make instruction equitable across grade levels.

To meet this challenge, the district implemented the CareerTrack 360 plugin, which seamlessly pulled standards, rosters, and other key data directly from PowerSchool. With this foundation, they developed district-wide curriculum maps with essential questions, standards alignment, pacing guidance, teacher resources, and assessments.  The maps empowered educators to deliver a viable, consistent curriculum.

The result was a unified approach that kept teachers on the same page, strengthened instructional consistency, and supported student success across the entire district.

One district set out to make report cards more meaningful for families by moving to a clear, standards-based format. The goal was to give parents an easy way to understand how their child was performing against academic benchmarks — without the confusion of traditional grading systems.

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To achieve this, the district leveraged the CareerTrack 360 plugin, which seamlessly extracted student performance data from PowerSchool and formatted it into a streamlined, standards-based report card. To ensure a smooth experience for families, SAML authentication was implemented, allowing parents to access the G10 report card directly through PowerSchool Parent Access.

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The result was a fully integrated solution that saved educators time, eliminated manual entry, and provided parents with a simple, accessible report card that clearly reflected their child’s progress.

Districts often struggle to efficiently capture the wide range of skills that define early childhood education. From Pre-K fundamentals like color recognition, shapes, sounds, rhyming words, and counting, to Kindergarten milestones such as letter and sound production, fine motor skills, listening, speaking, single-digit addition, decoding words, and measurement — the list is extensive, and tracking progress can be overwhelming.

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Educators needed more than just assessments; they wanted a streamlined process that applied trimester rubrics to measure growth and automatically generated clear, customized report cards for parents. The goal was simple: save time for teachers while giving families a meaningful snapshot of their child’s development.

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That’s where the CareerTrack 360 plugin and the G10 assessment platform came together. This integrated solution transformed the district’s approach by simplifying assessments, applying rubrics consistently, and producing professional, parent-friendly report cards tailored to district requirements. The result? Significant time savings for educators and concise, insightful reports that empower parents to understand and celebrate their child’s progress.