PowerSchool Wins 2024 GESS Education Awards for PowerBuddy

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FOLSOM, CA - November 21, 2024 - PowerSchool, a leading provider of cloud-based software for K-12 education in North America, today announced PowerBuddy, PowerSchool's safe and secure AI assistant uniquely crafted for teachers, students, parents, and administrators, has been awarded the 2024 GESS Education Award for "Best Paid For App Software Product." The awards spotlight excellence in the Global Education Supplies and Solutions (GESS) industry. The winners were announced on November 13 at the GESS Education Awards gala in Dubai.

The GESS Education Award program's "Best Paid For App Software Product" category recognizes an application or software that demonstrates outstanding customer care and offers an exceptional standard of service to education. Designed with PowerSchool's responsible AI principles, PowerBuddy was designated as the "Best AI Product" for its efforts in making learning more accessible through its integration across PowerSchool's family of products to provide personalized insights, foster increased engagement, and drive additional support for everyone across the educational ecosystem.

"We are honored to receive the 2024 GESS Education Award for Best Paid For App/Software for PowerBuddy," said Stewart Monk, Senior Vice President and General Manager, International at PowerSchool. "This recognition underscores our commitment to providing innovative solutions that empower educators, support students, and transform education worldwide. We are proud to see our technology making a meaningful impact in classrooms and beyond."

The GESS Education Awardshighlight and reward the quality and diversity of educational products, resources, services and people as well as the best educational establishments and the most dedicated members of the teaching profession. The GESS Education Awards aim to encourage the raising of educational services and product standards throughout the industry and aims to be recognized throughout the sector as the accolade of excellence.

To learn more about PowerBuddy, visit https://www.powerschool.com/powerschool-ai/powerbuddy/.

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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