Our Goal

Ensuring that the special needs students in your district receive top quality programming and that your educators have the resources and professional learning opportunities needed to implement it successfully.

In-Person Implementation Support

• Support in integrating foundational classroom practices and ARIS® into the classroom.
• Includes personalized assistance with ARIS program setup plus focus on a targeted area, such as lesson placement and planning, lesson delivery, or data collection.

Embedded Coaching Services

• Series of in-person classroom consultation and coaching sessions to introduce and enhance foundational classroom practices and ARIS® implementation.
• Begins with an individualized needs assessment (incl. teacher interview and structured classroom observation on foundational classroom practices) to develop an action plan.
• Ongoing scheduled individual and group remote check-in sessions
• Includes a summary report with educators' implementation outcomes and recommended next steps.  

Train-the-Trainer Model

• Customized model of support to build internal capacity to support the long-term implementation of the ARIS curriculum.
• Begins with a need assessment (incl. initial classroom visits and trainer interviews).
• Includes in-person on-site development visits, remote consultation sessions, and experiential learning opportunities to build, enhance, and empower trainers leading to more successful peer training and ARIS® implementation.

Comprehensive Needs Assessment

• Provides a panoramic view of a school or district’s special education classroom programs, highlighting strengths, challenges, and areas of opportunity 
• Includes a review of publicly accessible data, structured Onsite Classroom Observations, and Semi-Structured Interviews.
• Measurement tools are framed around the STAGES® 5P Framework, focusing on Place, People, Practices, Procedures, and Products. 

ARIS 101: Implementation Basics (Half-Day Virtual PD Session)

• A 3-hour Virtual PD Zoom Session for up to 30 participants
• An overview of ARIS and its components
• Day 1 essentials for educators and tools for ongoing implementation

ARIS Implementation Deep Dive Workshop (6-Hour In-Person Session)

• 6-hour In-Person Session for up to 30 participants
• In-depth exploration of ARIS and its components
• Collaborative discussion and interactive activities for hands-on learning

ARIS Implementation Next Steps Workshop (Full Day In-Person Session)

• Full Day In-Person Session for up to 30 participants
• Designed for users who have already had the basic ARIS ½ day or full-day PD, are implementing ARIS, and are ready for the next steps.
• Allows users to optimize their use of ARIS (incl. Individual and Class-wide Lesson Placement and Planning, Scheduling, Progress Monitoring, and IEP planning).
• Collaborative discussion and interactive activities for hands-on learning