Case Study: Wood Dale School District 7 strengthens PLCs and data-driven instruction with Otus

Wood Dale School District 7 uses Otus to power 71,000 assessments and stronger PLCs

Wood Dale School District 7 sought to strengthen collaborative instructional practices and support its standards-based grading initiative by connecting standards, common assessments, and student progress data. The district needed a platform to make this alignment easy for teachers without overburdening them, prompting a partnership with the vendor Otus and its products for assessments, data & analytics, and standards-based grading.

Otus provided an intuitive system for designing standards-aligned common assessments and evolved into a unified data hub. The solution centralized performance data from over 15 sources, including NWEA MAP Growth and i-Ready, enabling teachers to analyze trends in real time. The results include the completion of nearly 71,000 assessments in the 2024-25 school year, giving educators actionable insights to guide instruction and support student growth, which has strengthened the district's data-driven professional learning communities over their eight-year partnership with Otus.

Wood Dale School District 7