PowerSchool's Attendance Intervention Wins Best of Show Award, Presented by Tech & Learning
Tech & Learning's Best of Show Awards are evaluated by a panel of industry expert judges and editors and are selected on a points score against a range of criteria, including innovation, feature set, reliability, and performance.
PowerSchool's Attendance Intervention solution empowers educators to proactively address chronic absenteeism and foster student success through real-time data, automated workflows, and multilingual family engagement. Designed to support MTSS frameworks, the platform enables schools to identify students at-risk of chronic absenteeism early, implement tiered interventions, and monitor progress efficiently – all from a centralized hub.
'The products nominated for the Best of Show program provide an outstanding overview of new technology on the show floor and shine a spotlight on the products, and businesses behind them, who are transforming education in schools around the world,' said the awards editorial team.
For more information about Attendance Intervention, visit https://www.powerschool.com/solutions/student-success/attendance-intervention/.
For more information about the Tech & Learning Best of Show awards, visit https://www.techlearning.com/news/tech-and-learning-announces-winners-of-best-of-show-at-iste-2025,
About PowerSchool
PowerSchool is a 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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