Student Support Systems

The vendor required to provide student support systems for school and district teams to receive training, coaching, and technical assistance to strengthen their systems.
- Through this work, participating teams will: learn about the features of a holistic, proactive student support system; assess their current student support systems, structures, and practices; receive professional learning opportunities, coaching, and technical assistance to identify and implement concrete strategies for improvement; and leverage their improved student support systems to identify and address specific areas of need.
- Components of the student support system that this project will focus on include (but are not limited to):
•    Proactively assess all students’ holistic strengths and needs (academic, social emotional behavior, physical and mental wellbeing, and school connection).
•    Ensure that the new IEP process is effectively being implemented in concert with overall student support systems so that students with disabilities are being appropriately identified and supported.
•    Effectively leverage technology that pulls data together in a way that allows staff to track students’ needs, strengths, and progress
•    Use data to identify trends at classroom, grade, school, and district levels – both in the aggregate and disaggregated by specific student groups - particularly for students with disabilities, multi-lingual learners, etc.
•    Develop and implement expectations for the support that should be provided at the tier 1 level as well as a referral process when it is suspected that additional support may be needed
•    Develop a portfolio of tiered interventions (including support and services provided by the school as well as those provided by partners and community providers) that is responsive to students’ needs, evidence based, culturally and linguistically sustaining, and appropriately aligned with tier 1 curriculum, instruction, and supports (and aligned with the IEP as relevant)
•    Monitor the implementation and impact of interventions to allow for fluid movement in and out of tiered interventions; for students with disabilities – ensure that tiered supports are appropriately leveraged in conjunction with IEP accommodations, aids, and services; and
•    Establish or strengthen a student support team that:
o    Includes leadership and staff with decision making authority
o    Is multi-disciplinary, includes representation from special education staff, and can provide expertise regarding all four domains of support
o    Has crossover representation with the instructional leadership team to ensure that there is coherence between the vision for of tier 1 instruction with the tiered supports
o    collaborates with the students who are being referred for support, as well as their caregivers and families, teachers, and other providers to ensure that they have agency in the plans being developed and all stakeholders have the information they need to support the plan in a coherent, coordinated manner
- The platform should:
•    Be designed to seamlessly integrate different types of data from multiple sources to enable a full picture of a students’ holistic strengths and needs. 
•    Allow for analysis at multiple levels (student, specific student group, classroom, school, and district) and enable data to be disaggregated to identify trends and differences and disparities among specific student groups. 
•    Include features that allow school and district staff to leverage the technology for student support purposes (e.g., assign or remove interventions, track implementation and impact of interventions, facilitate communication across stakeholders, etc.). 
•    Be relatively intuitive for school and district staff to use.
•    Be accompanied by technical assistance to get the platform up and running and in use.
•    Be accessible to the selected vendor(s) for component a so that they can coach teams to incorporate the use of the platform in their overall student support systems, structures, and practices; and
•    Be financially sustainable (i.e., while teams will receive complementary access during their participation in the academy, it is vital that the cost be very reasonable so that they can sustain their use once they graduate).
- Budget: $3,500,000

- Contract Period/Term: 5 years
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: December 8, 2025