Introducing PowerSchool ContentNav: Your One-Stop AI-Powered Content Library

For educators, it can be hard to find school- or district-approved instructional content. Content is often stored in disparate systems and difficult to search and filter. In some cases, approved materials are not available at all, requiring teachers to find or create their own. The difficulty of finding instructional content causes teachers to spend 7-12 hours per week searching for and creating instructional materials, time that would be better spent working directly with students.  

Technology can help centralize high-quality instructional materials, helping teachers better meet the needs of their students across a spectrum of abilities. One such tool is PowerSchool ContentNav, an AI-powered learning object repository for K-12 education and part of the Personalized Learning Cloud. 

ContentNav is transforming the way school districts operate by providing a dynamic digital platform that serves as a centralized hub for educational materials, resources, and content creation tools. Artificial intelligence enhances the accessibility, organization, and effectiveness of these resources, which streamlines material discovery for teachers, ultimately accelerating learning and maximizing student success.  

How ContentNav Supports Teaching and Learning in K-12 Education 

ContentNav is a best-in-class content library that can revolutionize the educational landscape within your school or district. For teachers, it’s a critical partner in delivering relevant and engaging content that allows students to engage deeply and meaningfully with their learning. Its key features include:  

1. Resource Discoverability: ContentNav makes it easy for educators to access a wide range of teaching materials, including lessons, videos, interactive slides, and simulations, with more content to come, such as assessments and assignments. This unparalleled ease of access saves teachers time and effort in resource discovery. Educators can pick from millions of instructional materials including open education resources content, create and upload their own district-created content with access to a robust rich text editor, or choose to use content from paid publishers including Stride K-12, Slooh, Move This World, Learning Hub, Propello, and more.  
2. Quality and Consistency: ContentNav resources are available for districts to curate and review, ensuring that the materials available are standards-aligned and vetted for teachers to use in their classes. By providing a centralized source of educational materials, ContentNav helps ensure that teaching materials are consistent across grade levels and schools, promoting equity and standardization. 
3. Content Creation Tools: ContentNav also allows teachers to create their own instructional materials with content creation tools. This gives teachers the ability to embed external links and media, upload PDF, audio, and video files, create interactive slides, and access a robust rich text editor (RTE). Teachers particularly appreciate ContentNav’s ability to embed a YouTube video into their materials rather than providing a direct link. This prevents YouTube’s autoplay feature from distracting students with additional content.  
4. Customization: Teachers can tailor their lessons to meet the specific needs of their students for every learner​ at all grade levels in academics, social​ and emotional learning (SEL), and other parts of the learning experience by selecting and adapting resources from ContentNav. This customization is at the core of truly personalizing learning for individual students and classes. 
5. Collaboration: ContentNav facilitates collaboration among educators by allowing them to share their own resources and best practices with colleagues. This can foster a sense of community among teachers and improve overall teaching quality. Educators can utilize insights from successful teaching experiences and student outcomes to share with peers as part of their PLC (Professional Learning Community) processes.  
6. Student Engagement: Access to a variety of multimodal resources, such as videos, interactive simulations, and gamified content, adapted by reading levels and students’ interests, can make learning more engaging and enjoyable for students. By tailoring content to individual students’ needs, ContentNav helps address learning gaps while scaling teachers’ capacity.  
7. Interoperability: ContentNav is already integrated with PowerSchool Schoology Learning and PowerSchool LearningNav, providing a seamless experience. It will soon be interoperable with other learning platforms through LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability) integrations. This integration allows educators to personalize instructional content for their students, leveraging the investments in systems that their district has already made.  

Connecting Curriculum and Instruction to Improve Student Outcomes 

ContentNav and the other solutions in the Personalized Learning Cloud provide an end-to-end integrated content and curriculum platform that simplifies the collection and distribution of district and school-approved resources for educators. This saves precious time, promotes collaboration, improves resource quality, and enhances the overall learning experience for students. It plays a crucial role in modernizing education and is foundational for personalizing learning.