Case Study: Cañon City Schools saves time and boosts staff retention with PowerSchool

How Cañon City Schools Gets a Week’s Worth of Work Done in Two Hours

Cañon City Schools, a Colorado district serving about 3,000 students and 700 staff, was struggling with a manual professional development process that relied on paper sign-ins, transcript updates, and approvals that created HR bottlenecks. The district turned to PowerSchool Professional Learning to make PD easier to manage, enable staff to create their own courses, and improve access to more role-specific training.

With PowerSchool, Cañon City Schools reduced PD tracking from a week to about two hours, later described as an afternoon, while improving transcript accuracy and easing approval workflows. The district also saw less strain on HR, more staff ownership of learning, and a steady decrease in turnover over the last three years, which leaders attribute to stronger staff support and more authentic professional learning.

Cañon City Schools

Daniel Coppa

Instructional Technology Coordinator