The ARIS Platform

ARIS is the platform that

runs your special education program.

From the first skills assessment to the last data point of the year, ARIS coordinates every part of specialized instruction — assessment, IEP goals, individualized lessons, behavior support, progress monitoring, team collaboration, and family communication — so your teachers can teach, your students can grow, and you can prove it.

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ARIS | Teacher Dashboard

Good morning, Angela

Room 101 — Life Skills

Today · Lesson 13

3D to 2D Matching

Pull: Language Builder 3D-2D Matching Kit

Matching

Aligned to

VB-MAPP, ABLLS & hundreds of standards

Specialized instruction isn't one thing. It's everything, at once.

Every part of a specialized program, running together:

A skills assessment that maps straight to instruction.
IEP goals that connect to the lessons you actually teach.
A daily plan for every student — and it adapts as they progress.
Data in the moment behavior, preference, and progress, captured as it happens.
One shared picture the whole team — and parents — see the same view.
All the physical tools needed to pair with each ARIS lesson.

Most programs stitch this together across paper data sheets, disconnected curriculum binders, three separate software tools, and a lot of memory. Things slip. Data goes uncollected. Goals drift away from lessons. Handoffs lose context. Parents are last to know.

ARIS is the through-line. One platform where assessment becomes goals, goals become lessons, lessons become data, and data becomes the next decision — all visible to everyone who needs to see it.

Inside the Platform

What ARIS does, in depth.

Assessment, planning, IEP goals, communication, reporting — the work every special education program has to deliver, and how ARIS handles each one.

Assessments

Know exactly where every student stands.

A skills-based assessment is built in — the starting point for every plan and the baseline every future data point compares back to. Score it, auto-summarize by category, submit in one place.

Skills-based placement & progress assessment
Auto-generated summary by category
One-click submit, exportable for IEP teams

ARIS · Assessments

Assessment Summary

Skills

17%

Mastered

2.8

Avg score

✓

Submitted

Approaches to LearningMastered

LanguageOn track

Motor SkillsOn track

Social EmotionalNeeds work

Functional RoutinesOn track

Planning

An individualized path for every learner.

ARIS sequences the full curriculum with prerequisite logic — so your team always knows what to teach next, and why.

A lesson map per student
Prerequisite-aware sequencing
Digital + physical lessons, side by side

ARIS · Planning

Aisha's Learning Path

Lesson map

View path from — 3D to 2D Matching

3D to 3D Matching

Seq 1.1

3D to 2D Matching

Seq 1.2

Identical Matching

Seq 1.3

Receptive Labeling

Seq 2.1

Identical Matching — Shapes

Seq 2.1

Following a Schedule

Seq 1.3

IEP Goals

IEP goals wired to the lessons you teach.

Write measurable, IDEA-compliant goals against assessment results, set baseline levels, review the language, and activate — guided step by step, never starting from a blank page.

Guided six-step goal builder
Level picker: Nascent → Proficient
Goals linked to the lessons that move them

ARIS · IEP Goals

Goal Bank

202 goals · Browse

View All 202

Approaches to Learning 30

Language 38

Functional Routines 20

Math Readiness 43

Create a Custom Goal

Describe it — MILA structures it

L78

Washing Hands

Functional Routines › Self-Care & Healthy Habits

L79

Following a Schedule

Functional Routines › Classroom Routines

1 Assign

2 Levels

3 PLAAFP

4 Language

5 Dates

6 Activate

Baseline level — Following a Schedule

Nascent

Emerging

Developing

Proficient

Communication

Families always know what's happening.

Clear, regular updates on what each student is working on and how they're progressing — generated by the platform and sent home, with nobody compiling a report on a Friday afternoon.

Auto-built weekly summaries
Plain-language progress for families
Sent without manual compilation

ARIS · Communication

Weekly Family Update

Aisha J. · Room 101

Sent

This week's progress for Aisha, across all five content areas:

Approaches to Learning · Identical Matching 88%

Language · Receptive Labeling — Shapes 74%

Motor Skills · Fine Motor — Scribbling 61%

Social Emotional · Turn-Taking 47%

Functional Routines · Following a Schedule 66%

Reporting

Progress you can see — and prove.

Skills tracking over time, broken out by category, formatted for IEP teams and administrators. The evidence is generated as you teach, not reconstructed after the fact.

Skills-over-time trend charts
By-category breakdowns
Admin- & IEP-ready exports

ARIS · Reporting

Functional Routines

1 / 7

Progress by sub-skill (2025 / 2026)

Classroom Routines Community Life Self-Care & Healthy Habits

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

One report per content category — drill down for the detail.

Built for Hands · Driven by the Platform

The materials are the delivery vehicle. The platform runs the show.

Stages has spent 25 years building the physical materials that make hands-on lessons work — originally for students with autism, now used across special education and preschool classrooms — and they ship with every ARIS deployment. But the materials don't drive instruction. ARIS does — it tells your team the exact kit to pull for each lesson, how to run it, what data to collect, and what comes next.

ARIS · Lesson

Lesson 13

3D to 2D Matching

Structured Seq 1.2

Lesson Focus

Match 3D objects to their corresponding 2D pictures — foods, animals, everyday objects, and vehicles.

IEP GoalsProceduresPromptingData SheetNext Steps

Suggested materials — pull from your kit

Foods

Animals

Vehicles

Everyday Objects

No hunting for materials

Every lesson is backed by the exact hands-on tools.

The Language Builder 3D-2D Matching Kit — the real objects and matched photo cards ARIS calls for in Lesson 13

Built In, Not Bolted On

You don't implement ARIS alone.

Coaching embedded in your platform — and your classroom.

Onboarding, ongoing professional development, and implementation support are part of the platform — not a separate phone number you hope someone answers. Your Stages team is visible inside ARIS, responsive to your teachers, and structured to help you scale special education services across classrooms, schools, and districts without losing fidelity.

A platform is only as good as the people who help you make it real. That's why our team is built into the product, not bolted on to it.

ARIS · Coaching

Maria Alvarez

Your Stages Implementation Coach

Available

Saw Aisha's data — let's adjust Lesson 14 together. Free at 2pm?

Maria · 5m ago

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Next live session

April 7, 2026

ARIS 101 · 12:00–3:00 PM ET · Virtual

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Next onsite coaching

April 22, 2026

Room 101 · full-day modeling & co-teaching

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This week from your coach

Practice items based on where you are right now

1 Start Lesson 1 with Aiden & Sofia this week
2 Enter your first data session after teaching
3 Review Marcus's placement — does it match what you see?

Open your coaching plan

Onboarding · PD · implementation support — included with ARIS

Why ARIS

One platform. Every part of the work.

Assessments

A skills-based assessment, built in — the baseline every future data point compares back to.

ARIS is not software

ARIS is deeply embedded program infrastructure

There are special education curricula. There are physical teaching materials. There are data collection tools. There are IEP platforms. And, there are teacher coaching programs. ARIS is the first place all of them live as one — purpose-built for special education, designed around the way classrooms actually run, and refined across 25 years of work with the districts who serve students with disabilities every day.

When everything connects, your team teaches more, tracks more, communicates more, and burns out less. Students don't fall through cracks. Parents aren't surprised. Administrators have the evidence they need.

Student achievement is up & teacher retention is up
Parent communication is continuous & disputes are down
Program costs are down & district budget burden is relieved

This is what a special education program looks like when it works as one.

See ARIS in action.

A 30-minute walkthrough with our team is the fastest way to understand whether ARIS is the right fit for your program.

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