Panorama Education, an education technology company that helps students achieve academic success and well-being, today announced the launch of Panorama Solara (Solara), a purpose-built AI chat tool designed specifically for K-12 districts and state departments of education. Solara is the latest addition to Panorama's growing suite of AI-powered tools, designed to support educators and school administrators by providing actionable insights and enabling more meaningful interactions with students.

Solara, combines AI innovations and capabilities with Panorama’s deep educational expertise and research. Integrated with Panorama data sources like Panorama Student Success, Panorama Surveys and Engagement and Panorama’s Playbook intervention and strategy library, Solara provides secure, private, and personalized AI-powered support to help educators with attendance plans, student interventions, and more.

“Educators are using a wide range of AI tools today, and it is starting to feel like the Wild West,” said Aaron Feuer, CEO and Co-Founder of Panorama Education. “Here at Panorama, we set out to create an AI tool that is not only helpful and impactful to educators, but also secure and private so districts can feel confident in their educators using it. Solara is a major step forward for education AI, providing educators with relevant, research-backed advice, all while protecting student data and supporting high quality instruction.”

Key Features of Panorama Solara:

• AI Designed for Education, With Student Privacy at Its Core: Solara upholds privacy and security standards, operates on a secure infrastructure and fully complies with SOC2 and the Student Privacy Pledge. Unlike other AI solutions, Solara does not use student data to train its AI models, so districts, educators, and families can trust that sensitive student information is kept private and secure.
• Tailored AI Support Built on K-12 Expertise: Solara is infused with deep knowledge from Panorama’s 12+ years of K-12 education experience, and incorporates extensive research, best practices, and expertise, along with a district's unique practices. Whether educators need to create personalized attendance plans or develop student intervention plans, Solara delivers high-quality, research-backed content tailored to their district's curriculum and teaching style.
• Clear Visibility into AI Usage Across Your District: With Solara, districts and states gain access to a comprehensive usage dashboard that offers clear insights into how AI is being utilized across their schools. Solara displays overall usage themes to understand how schools and educators are using AI, better supporting the needs of both educators and students.
• Customizable, Evidence-Based Tools to Enhance Teaching: With a library of ready-to-use, expert-designed prompts and tools, Solara allows educators to interact with the chatbot for immediate assistance or access a suite of resources that elevate research-backed teaching and learning practices. This enables educators to complete tasks more efficiently, freeing up time to focus on students and drive better learning outcomes.

"We've been incredibly thoughtful to ensure that Solara is built on principles around data security," said Danny Johnson, Chief Technology Officer of Panorama Education. "Educators, students, and families need to trust AI to provide quality information, and this is one of the first AI products in education that has been built from the ground up with security and privacy as the top priority."

Complementing a Comprehensive Suite of AI Tools

Solara joins Panorama's expanding AI product lineup, which includes Insights, Signal, Focus, and Community Voice—AI features currently utilized by over 360 districts nationwide through Panorama Student Success and Surveys and Engagement products:

• Insights: Provides three key insights about each student, including a mix of strengths and areas for improvement to guide educators’ decision-making.
• Focus: Allows educators to perform plain text searches directly from the student overview dashboard in Student Success (e.g., "show me students with declining attendance" or "show me students who scored well on the latest math assessment"), enabling quick identification of student needs.
• Signal: Analyzes open-ended survey responses in minutes to identify sensitive issues like bullying or self-harm, allowing for immediate intervention.
• Community Voice: Analyzes all responses to a specific open-ended question, identifying themes and categorizing survey data into one of three sentiment categories: positive, neutral, or negative.

Solara will be available as a purchasable add-on. For more information about Solara and existing AI features, visit PanoramaEd.com/Solara.

About Panorama Education

Panorama Education is an education technology company founded in 2012 that helps students achieve academic success and well-being, and gives schools and school districts a platform to hear what families, students and teachers need in the classroom. Educators use Panorama's software platform to understand and support students across academics, attendance, behavior, and life skills development. District leaders use the same platform to track progress toward strategic goals, such as literacy, graduation, and school safety. Panorama is proud that its platform is used to support 15 million students in 25,000 schools and 2,000 districts across the United States.

For more information, visit www.panoramaed.com.

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