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.

 

 

 

Customer Testimonials

Western Heights ISD (Oklahoma City, OK)
“Strong reporting capabilities at the student, class, school, and district levels helped inform instructional decisions based on student needs. The result has been an increase in student achievement on statewide assessment exams by 30% district-wide over the last two years." - Mr. Joe Kitchens, Superintendent

 

Pasadena ISD (Pasadena, TX)
"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 impacts student learning by providing data to determine appropriate instruction. It enables teachers to monitor student understanding and adjust their lessons accordingly. Students learn in more depth because teachers are driving instruction to meet individual student needs." - Dr. Kirk Lewis, Superintendent

 

Mount Pleasant ISD (Mount Pleasant, TX)
The main benefit of the Mizuni implementation is to “more accurately monitor assessments to inform instruction and improve student achievement earlier in the year.” - Mr. Bruce Gearing, former Assistant Superintendent of Instruction

“With Mizuni, rather than generating data manually, 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. Bruce Gearing, former Assistant Superintendent of Instruction

 

Durant ISD (Durant, OK)
“The information is grouped by the twenty students in the teacher’s classroom. It provides the assessment data teachers have wanted forever in a clean, neat, and easy-to-read format.” – Ms. Andi Hudson, Technology Integration Specialist

“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

Success Stories: Read How Mizuni is Helping School Districts.

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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