The Vendor is required to provide an educational software platform to supplement district-wide educational goals for k-12 reading (ELA), mathematics, science, and/or social studies courses.
- The platform is expected to enhance personalized learning, improve operational efficiency, and empower teachers and administrators with actionable insights.
- Specifically in reading (ELA), platforms should align with the 5 pillars of literacy: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.
- For mathematics, platforms should support students in building conceptual understanding of mathematics and the development of procedural fluency- the ability to accurately and efficiently carry out mathematical procedures.
- Platforms should support teachers in meeting the needs of all students, including those who receive the following services: English language development, specialized learning, and gifted.
- Software platforms will be deployed in alignment with multi-tiered system of supports, standards-aligned curriculum, and comprehensive framework for enhancing academic outcomes for all students.
- Requirements:
• Alignment to state standards in one or more of the following subject areas: reading (ELA), math; science, and/or social studies in grades k - 12.
• Provide enhanced personalized learning with opportunities for students to interact with the curriculum on a deeper level.
• Provide instructional resources to supplement classroom instruction in the areas of reading (ELA), science, social studies, and/or mathematics.
• Empower teachers and administrators with actionable data-driven insights.
• Requirements for single-sign on (SSO) feature compatible with office365, google workspace or class link.
• Provide a district dashboard for systemic progress monitoring with administrator accounts at the district and school level.
a. Proposal to include the minimum requirements for rostering and district dashboards.
• Provides opportunity for student review & practice and/or virtual instruction as well as acceleration and remediation lessons/materials when necessary.
• Manages the complete project life cycle – including readiness, implementation, comprehensive training, and sustained ongoing support to guarantee a successful integration and adoption across district, servicing approximately 23,000 students and 1,800 teachers. - Usability:
• The program is user-friendly and can provide students with additional support as well as engaging, interactive and age appropriate content for students.
• Include a text-to-speech tool, which includes the reading of texts and online tool capabilities (highlighter, magnifier, color contrast, virtual manipulatives, etc.).
• Self-paced and adaptive learning for students to utilize independently that adjusts to student mastery levels.
• Personalized feedback and support for students during practice exercises.
• The materials should offer comprehensive teacher guidance, including helpful annotations and suggestions for effectively implementing both student and ancillary materials to support student development.
- Data and reporting preferences:
• Methodology for frequently identifying or diagnosing students’ unfinished learning and directing students to content that addresses their specific needs.
• Capabilities to provide robust reporting dashboard tools for tracking an individual student and classroom level for the teacher to monitor product usage, growth and achievement.
• Dashboard/reports that contain detailed performance and progress information in both written and graphical forms to facility the use of the scores for instructional planning and decision-making.
• Allowance for exporting test results to be uploaded into the district data management system.
• Reporting that provides parents/guardians and others with necessary information about the progress of the learner so that they may provide support at home or outside the school setting.
• Provides access to student-facing, teacher-facing, and parent/guardian facing data reports in multiple languages.
- Support, training and professional development
• Initial training and professional development necessary to begin implementation of the proposed platform.
• Platform should include a training component so teachers can easily learn the product and all it can do to support them, and the students’ needs.
• Allow respondent representative(s), in a timely manner, to work on a regular basis with district/school personnel to answer all questions regarding production or financial matters pertaining to the individual services required.
• Describe the cost and how often research shows that refresher training is required.
• Outline the training provided for the use of the results for individual students.
- Product information
• Software product name
• Complete product description
• Targeted grade level(s) for product
• The current release version and length of time this product has been on the market.
• If you are presenting multiple products to meet our requirements, please specify each product.
• Total customer sites that are currently using the current version of the product, particularly with a client of our size; please indicate if any of them are in state.
• Product licensing structure.
• Fully mobile-responsive interface to ensure students can access the program on any device issued across the district i.e. windows devices, Chromebook, android and iOS devices
• The platform must comply with federal accessibility standards (WCAG 2.2) and submit a voluntary product accessibility template (VPAT) to verify accessibility compliance.
• Compliance with federal accessibility standards (VPAT required) and data privacy regulations.
- Platform and solution requirements
• Seamless, real-time integration with district’s student information system (sis).
• Active integration with one roster, class link, schoology, google office 365, infinite campus, synergy, PowerSchool, and other solutions identified by the district.
• The system must allow for bi-directional data flow, ensuring the program can retrieve, update, and process real-time information from these systems.
• Applications standards such as LTI (learning tools interoperability), thin cc (thin common cartridge) or QTI (questions and test interoperability) are beneficial.
• The application must be compatible with windows 11 with the minimum student device requirements of 4 GB ram, with the n100/n200 processor.
• Integration with the district’s single sign-on (SSO) platforms such as office365, class link, and google for seamless and secure user access via SAML, oof2, or LDAP.
• Ability to authenticate users.
• Ability to be rostered using one roster 1.1 or higher.  
• The platform clearly defines its practices for data usage, storage, ownership, disaster recovery, and destruction.
- Technical specification
• Provide a list of browsers that are compatible with this product.
• Identify how much bandwidth is required for connectivity.
• Identify all URLS and CDNS (network requirements/whitelist).
• Provide how frequently system back-ups are created, tested, restored.
• Provide the platform’s authentication method.
• Identify how logins are managed.
• Identify any inherent risks, weaknesses or data threats known about the platform.
• Provide the rules of the platform for personally identifiable information.
• Advise what data is needed from other district systems.
• Advice what data will be provided to the other district systems?
• Advise how often data will be exchanged.
• Advise how changes in the data are addressed.
• Provide information regarding how data exchange security is enforced.
• Advise the device requirements for the platform: OS, RAM, disk space, processor.
- Contract Period/Term: 1 year
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: June 10, 2025