Panorama Surveys provide insights into student and family engagement and help inform communication strategies and intervention assignments.

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So What

Creating accessible and consistent communication practices can help districts strengthen family and caregiver engagement and make student success information easier to understand and act on.

Context Setting

Lynwood Unified School District (LUSD) recognized that families often struggled to access or interpret student progress information in ways that supported meaningful engagement. Communication practices varied across schools and educators, making it difficult to create a consistent experience for students and families.

Innovation/Partnership

To improve family engagement, LUSD focused on creating more accessible communication workflows tied to student success systems and on-track indicators. The district prioritized consistent communication practices, clearer presentation of student progress information, and systems that helped educators engage families earlier and more proactively around student needs.

Impact

This approach improved visibility into student progress for families and strengthened communication between educators, caregivers, and student success teams. By making information easier to understand and act on, LUSD helped create more collaborative student support processes.

Strategy Fit

Consider this strategy if your district has:

• Inconsistent communication with families
• Difficulty helping families interpret student progress data
• Limited family engagement in student success planning
• Reactive communication that only occurs after problems escalate
• Challenges coordinating communication across schools or teams

Roadmap

• Identify which student success indicators families should regularly receive
• Align communication practices across teams, where possible
• Create clearer and more accessible progress visualizations
• Establish recurring communication workflows tied to student success reviews
• Gather feedback from families on communication needs and preferences
• Refine communication strategies based on engagement and usage patterns

Learn more about this district’s approach to student success in the District-Led Innovation Showcase report.

So What

Incorporating student voice and well-being data into student success systems can help districts make more holistic and student-centered support decisions.

Context Setting

Before integrating well-being data into student success workflows, Colorado Springs School District 11 (D11) primarily relied on traditional academic and behavioral indicators to guide intervention planning. This limited teams’ ability to understand how students were experiencing school and whether engagement, belonging, or emotional well-being were contributing to student challenges.

Innovation/Partnership

To create a more holistic understanding of student needs, D11 partnered with Panorama to integrate student well-being surveys into Panorama Student Success. Student voice data was incorporated into dashboards and student profiles alongside academic and attendance indicators, allowing educators and student success teams to better understand student experiences and needs.

Impact

Integrating well-being and student voice data helped teams identify needs that may not have surfaced through academic indicators alone. This supported more student-centered conversations and allowed interventions to better reflect students’ lived experiences and needs.

Strategy Fit

Consider this strategy if your district has:

• Heavy reliance on academic indicators alone
• Limited visibility into student engagement or well-being
• Difficulty understanding root causes behind student challenges
• Student support conversations lacking student perspective
• Challenges creating more holistic student success systems

Roadmap

• Identify which student voice or well-being indicators should be collected
• Integrate student voice data into student success systems, where possible
• Train teams on interpreting and using student well-being data
• Create workflows that incorporate student perspective into intervention planning
• Establish recurring review processes for well-being indicators
• Use findings to refine student support practices and strategies

Explore this district’s strategy in the District-Led Innovation Showcase report.

So What

Pairing student data with relationship-centered support practices can help districts create more meaningful and student-centered intervention decisions.

Context Setting

Before strengthening its student success processes, Demopolis High School needed a more consistent way to connect student data to ongoing conversations with students, families, and caregivers. While educators had access to important information about attendance, behavior, and course performance, there was a need for stronger coordination and more proactive communication around student needs and support planning.

Innovation/Partnership

To improve student-centered decision-making, Demopolis combined its predictive indicator tracking process with a mentorship-based support model. Educators and student success teams regularly reviewed attendance, behavior, and course performance indicators and used that information to guide conversations with students and families about progress, challenges, and support needs. Rather than relying on data alone, the district emphasized relationship-building and consistent communication as part of the intervention process.

Impact

This approach helped create more personalized and proactive support conversations between educators, students, and families. By grounding intervention discussions in both student data and ongoing relationships, Demopolis strengthened coordination across teams and improved visibility into student needs before challenges escalated further.

Strategy Fit

Consider this strategy if your district has:

• Difficulty engaging students and families in intervention planning
• Student support conversations that feel disconnected from student experience
• Inconsistent communication practices across educators or teams
• Limited visibility into the root causes behind student challenges
• Challenges balancing data-driven decision-making with relationship-centered support

Roadmap

• Identify the key student indicators that should guide support conversations
• Create shared processes for reviewing student data across teams
• Establish mentorship or relationship-centered support structures
• Define communication workflows for engaging students and families
• Train staff on combining student data with relationship-building practices
• Create recurring opportunities for students and families to provide input into support planning

Learn more about this district’s approach in the District-Led Innovation Showcase report.