Integrated Insights is a three-part analysis that reveals how better academic scheduling and district resource allocation can support all students’ college and career readiness
District leaders everywhere are being asked to deliver stronger student outcomes with fewer resources, fewer staff, and greater public scrutiny.
This guide outlines three essential, interconnected steps K-12 leaders can take to move from surviving to thriving in 2026: 1) Find hidden funds embedded in your current system, 2) Work as one team to decide how to leverage those funds most effectively, and 3) Build educator capacity where it matters most
Ensure every student emerges college & career ready—even when resources are scarce
Identify students primed for an increase in academic rigor and course planning towards career readiness
Increase seat utilization across the district to ensure efficiency and alignment around your strategic plan
Maximize senior coursetaking, streamline CTE pathways, and ultimately ensure students have a broad set of pathways after graduation
Inefficient scheduling was costing one Wisconsin school district over $4.1 million in unfilled student seats—with $2.7 million at the three high schools alone.
Under-enrolled, over-enrolled, and low-yield courses can inefficiently stretch district resources in ways that don’t serve students or teachers best.
And worse: they can pull students away from courses that align with high-growth, high-wage job opportunities.
Integrated Insights analyzes the transcripts of your most recently graduated cohorts to answer critical questions about persistence, course progression, advanced coursework enrollment, and equity.
Then, connect this data to understand the correlation on postsecondary outcomes and make adjustments that serve your unique students and community needs.
Our proprietary measure of students’ academic pathways combines three areas of course-taking into a single score, assessing academic intensity for students individually and districtwide.
In one Wisconsin district, 42% of students in the graduating class are taking a courseload that is far from intense.
This data helped the district identify ways to improve their students’ post-secondary success: develop sequential CTE pathways, streamline academic pathways from middle school to high school to encourage students’ focus on depth over breadth in their chosen pathways, and re-evaluate pathways that are not designed to support students’ future-readiness.
WEBINAR: Getting the Most Out of Limited Resources
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Through resource allocation and utilization analytics, Integrated Insights examines course enrollment and attendance, instructional time, academic scheduling, and key policies to surface disconnects between student needs and district resourcing.
Compare staffing levels across school sites, identify course enrollment inefficiencies, or identify scheduling issues—all with an eye towards optimizing the system to provide a consistent student experience.
With scheduling health insights, get a thorough analysis of the ways scheduling is or is not driving towards district goals.
For instance, understand:
In 20 states, less than 50% of students are college or career ready.
Integrated Insights helps identify where students’ academic pathways are preparing them for high-growth, high-wage career options—and where they’re not, so that you can shift those pathways appropriately.
Professional learning, personalized coaching, academic management tools, and data reporting aligned to your teaching and learning goals
Measure shifts in teaching practice with data-driven, non-evaluative classroom observations
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