The Proven Solution People are Cheering About
To get the full story on Mizuni Solutions, you need to see it in action! Many of our customers have shared their success stories with us, and we would like to share them with you! Take a look at our case studies, customer testimonials and videos to see how Mizuni has improved the entire educational process for students, parents, teachers and administrators. Listen to what our customers have to say about the Mizuni District Solution...
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Customer Testimonials
Pasadena ISD (Pasadena, TX)
"The Mizuni Solution impacts student learning by providing data to determine appropriate instruction."
- Dr. Kirk Lewis Superintendent
"The Mizuni Solution provides data at our fingertips when we need it. Before, we had to make decisions on instinct or with only some of the data we needed. Now we get data more quickly and efficiently to make decisions."
- Dr. Kirk Lewis Superintendent
"The greatest benefit of the Mizuni Solution is the ability to pull data that we did not have before or it took days and days to get. The number of reports that we get and the timeliness of the reports has been very invaluable in analyzing the programs we have in place."
- Dr. Kirk Lewis Superintendent
"We now get a more focused picture of what the students need to immediately affect instruction."
- Donna Summers, Director of Research & Evaluation
"The greatest benefit of the Mizuni Solution is that I can now focus on analyzing data rather than gathering and formatting it"
- Donna Summers, Director of Research & Evaluation
"The Mizuni Solution provides data on completion rates that allows us to offer every child a path that is right for them."
- Donna Summers, Director of Research & Evaluation
Mount Pleasant ISD (Mount Pleasant, TX)
"Mizuni offers the simplicity of a complex system."
- Mr. Noe Arzate, Director of Technology
"With Mizuni, rather than generating data, there will be more hours available to work with teachers at the classroom level to improve instruction. Every student can be successful. The Mizuni Solution is another tool in our toolbox to make this happen."
- Mr. Noe Arzate, Director of Technology
"The customer service is excellent. The support is excellent. It would be nice to find more companies like this in the industry. Good product + great customer service."
- Mr. Noe Arzate, Director of Technology
"Dashboards are a key benefit. They are intuitive for teachers. From the moment they login, they can access the info. It is very easy to use. Not a whole lot of learning curve. Huge benefit. Powerful yet simple."
- Mr. Noe Arzate, Director of Technology
Durant ISD (Durant, OK)
"Very few vendors can parse data like Mizuni. With Mizuni, the assessment data uploads in minutes and aligns data to individual students."
- Mr. Todd Hughes, CTO
"Mizuni is incredible with customer service – excellent customer service."
- Mr. Todd Hughes, CTO
Western Heights ISD (Oklahoma City, OK)
"Strong reporting capabilities at the student, class, school, and district levels helps inform instructional decisions based on student needs."
- Mr. Joe Kitchens, Superintendent
Lawton Public School (Lawton, OK)
"The Mizuni Solution made an immediate impact on our district. We now have a single-point of data entry with real-time updates to our internal information systems. Rather than spending time on redundant data entry, we now focus on data quality and usage."
- Matt Young, Director of Management Information Systems
"I cannot imagine a better partner in Education than Mizuni. If you are looking for a solution that simply works, this is it. The Mizuni Solution has led to reduced overhead and cost savings in areas that we did not even anticipate."
- Matt Young, Director of Management Information Systems
Cleburne ISD, (Cleburne, TX)
"Mizuni has provided us with an exemplary product that allows us to leverage a variety of data sources saving time, money and frustration."
- Chris Cox, Data Services Coordinator
"Mizuni has been outstanding in all facets of partnership with Cleburne ISD. Their extremely robust product line has proven time and time again to be superior in relation to our other vendors that we work with."
- Chris Cox, Data Services Coordinator
Edmond Public Schools, (Edmond, OK)
"With Mizuni as our business partner, we have streamlined and automated the process of sharing student data between our district applications. Ultimately, our students benefit because teachers have timely and accurate data allowing them to focus on classroom instruction with confidence."
- David G. Fraser, Chief Financial Officer
Catoosa Public School, (Catoosa, OK)
"The overall value of the Mizuni solution cannot be overstated. Mizuni brings the power of data driven instruction to the desktop of every teacher. With the Mizuni solution, we are able to better plan and execute our 21st century teaching and learning initiatives."
- Jason Johnson, Technology Director
Klein ISD, (Klein, TX)
"Mizuni exceeded all of the original time lines. We were up and running within one month. In that time frame, Mizuni pulled five years of historical data from our student information system into the Mizuni Data Warehouse and loaded five years of TAKS [state] test data for all 45,000 students."
- Vicki James, Executive Director of Student Information Services
Spring ISD, (Spring, TX)
"Both the district's technology and instructional staff at Spring ISD have been amazed at how much can be accomplished quickly with the right tools."
- Mary Anne Beseda, Spring ISD's Director of Technology.
Broken Arrow Public School, (Broken Arrow, OK)
"With the Mizuni Solution we are able to quickly extract data to generate timely school and district-wide reports.
- Cathy Brown, Assistant Director for Student Management
"Mizuni provides us with easy access to student information such as current and historical grades, attendance, and schedules. Combine all that with the access to student test scores and that is the total package."
- Cathy Brown, Assistant Director for Student Management
"Before Mizuni, we were a spreadsheet-driven school district. By replacing a rather archaic method of capturing data with 21st century technology, we're now able to meet the needs of administrators, teachers, students."
- Brian Daley, Executive Director of Technology
"The Mizuni District Solution is a tremendous savings from a time and labor perspective for our school district."
- Brian Daley, Executive Director of Technology
"Our teachers' and staff members' jobs are more often than not data driven, so it is exciting that we were able to form this partnership with Mizuni to provide our district with solid, real-time, centralized data at our finger tips."
- Brian Daley, Executive Director of Technology
Success Stories: Read How Mizuni is Helping School Districts.
Keller School District (Keller, TX)
Just North of Fort Worth, Texas, Keller Independent School District (ISD) serves over 33,000 students on 39 campuses. The District needed a solution to make all student data more accessible for administrators, teachers, and
other staff. The District determined that a data warehouse would give them the "one-stop" solution their stakeholders needed.
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Pasadena School District (Pasadena, TX)
Some 50 miles off the Gulf of Mexico, Pasadena Independent School District (ISD) was facing its share of a national crisis. Administrators at this large, urban district were troubled by what seemed to be a high dropout rate and an alarmingly low graduation rate. However, due to a lack of timely access to detailed data, it was difficult to understand the problem and to organize a solution. For instance, district staff had to wait over a year before they received a state-provided list of dropouts and graduation rates from the previous year - hardly a turnaround time that enabled action to support those students. Facing this reality, administrators at Pasadena ISD decided that they needed much greater in-house capacity to track students, find out who was dropping out and why, so they could act to do something about it.
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Western Heights Public School (Oklahoma City, OK)
About six years ago, leaders of the Western Heights school district confronted the elephant at the graduation ceremony. Limited to yearly enrollment data, no one was quite sure how bad the dropout rate was, but they knew it was a problem. District leaders also knew that if they were going to address the issue, they needed much more detailed information to bring the situation into focus. Finding no adequate information management solution available on the market, Superintendent Joe Kitchens challenged Mizuni to help his district measure the scope of its dropout problem and develop the information and tools necessary to fix it.
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Edmond Public Schools (Edmond, OK)
Edmond Public Schools in Edmond, Oklahoma was challenged by the efficiency of its reporting processes. Creating reports manually was difficult and time consuming. “There was no shortage of data, but the proverbial ‘data rich and information poor’ characterized our efforts to truly be a data-driven school district,” explains Mr. David Fraser, Chief Financial Officer,
Edmond Public Schools.
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Mount Pleasant ISD (Mount Pleasant, TX)
With 150-200 new students each year, Mount Pleasant Independent School District (ISD) was no longer able to manually handle the additional data entry required in their various systems to keep up with their growing student body. Recognizing that they needed to automate, Mount Pleasant wanted more immediate feedback on assessments to help inform instruction earlier in the year. The Technology and Instruction departments worked together to find a technical solution to their instructional needs.
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Pasadena ISD (Pasadena, TX)
Administrators at Pasadena ISD were interested in providing key stakeholders with access to powerful data to improve student achievement. To accomplish this goal, they needed a data warehouse and portal solution that would store multiple years of information to produce longitudinal trend analysis of student performance data.
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SIF Association Case Study for Pasadena ISD (Pasadena, TX)
The Pasadena Independent School District uses the data it collects to positively impact instruction and student achievement. The district depended on a mainframe system developed in-house but the administration was interested in transitioning to a more modern system. The staff agreed that no single system could fulfill all the needs of teachers, staff and administrators. Based upon this conclusion, the district decided to deploy numerous best-of-breed software applications from multiple vendors, each of which met or exceeded district requirements. To accomplish this, they needed a solution that would provide seamless data flow between the different applications.
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Durant ISD (Durant, OK)
At Durant Independent School District in Southeast Oklahoma, state testing occurs in April, with results returned to the district mid-summer. This does not give teachers enough time to react and adjust their instruction to impact their current class of students. Durant was looking for a technology solution that would offer Teachers and Administrators real assessment data. To accomplish this, the solution needed to consolidate data from disparate systems into an easy-to-use interface for users.
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Western Heights ISD (Oklahoma City, OK)
Joe Kitchens, Superintendent of Western Heights Public School District #41 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was on a mission to improve student achievement by putting valuable information in the hands of key stakeholders – principals, teachers, and parents. To accomplish this, he envisioned combining data from best-of-breed software applications across various functions. The aggregated data would be used to generate reports and analysis that would empower educators to adjust instruction and academic support to meet student needs. Western Heights chose to implement the Schools Interoperability Framework (SIF) Specification as the foundation for its Total Information Management solution because it was likely to deliver data interoperability essential to achieving its goals. Since deploying the SIF-based strategy, Western Heights has seen tremendous benefits from accurate, consistent, real-time data, the most significant of which are increased student achievement and increased state and federal funding.
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SIF Association Case Study for Mesquite ISD (Mesquite, TX)
Located 10 miles East of Dallas and servicing an area of 60 square miles, Mesquite Independent School
District was looking to fully automate the management of student and employee network and email
accounts. Mesquite ISD Information Technology (IT) staff was spending literally weeks before the start of
school managing the process. With limited IT resources and responsibility for maintaining and implementing
technology for forty five campuses, the task of manually managing the accounts had become too time
consuming for the IT staff.
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