

More importantly, though, teachers at Leon Goldstein can access a variety of aggregated data in a single location instead of analyzing state standardized test scores in one state-level database, entering grades in another system, finding student data in another, and tracking formative assessments somewhere else. Weinstein cited the ability to rapidly prototype applications and easily build on a framework of functionality as a key reason for their success. Michael and his team have not only designed their SIS from the ground up using Filemaker Pro, but actually made a business out of selling custom solutions to other New York Schools. Things got even more interesting when I spoke with Michael Weinstein, the assistant principal at Leon Goldstein High School for the Sciences in Brooklyn.
