For Curriculum & Special Education Directors

One program. Every classroom. Visible from your desk.

A customizable special education program with consistent materials, reliable progress monitoring, and real-time data visibility. Standards aligned. Audit-ready. Evidence rolling up to you in real time — not reconstructed at year-end.

  • One program, every classroom
  • Standards aligned, audit ready
  • Evidence rolled up
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A district curriculum director at her desk in a school office, the ARIS District Overview dashboard open on her monitor, a playground visible through the window behind her

Tuesday · 9:14 AM

Cabinet meeting at 11. The evidence is already on the screen.

Stages Learning · ARIS Hillview Unified · Overview Live

487

Students

38

Classrooms

12

Schools

Maple Elementary Active
Lincoln Middle Coaching visit · Tue
Roosevelt Preschool Needs visit

Step 1

Flexible curriculum. Personalized pathways. Meaningful progress.

One special education program, every classroom in the district.

ARIS helps educators adapt instruction and support students lacking foundational skills with individualized learning experiences.

One special education program that includes assessment, lesson sequence, materials, data system, and coaching support across special education and early childhood classrooms. A consistent framework that supports individualized learning pathways for every student.

Most districts build their special education programming over time — different curricula across buildings, legacy materials still in use, and disconnected tools layered in along the way. ARIS helps bring those pieces together through a cohesive, adaptable system that supports differentiated instruction while giving districts clearer visibility into implementation, progress, and outcomes.

Stages Learning · ARIS Hillview Unified · Overview Live
487 students · 12 schools Live
Maple Elementary Active
Lincoln Middle Visit Tue
Roosevelt Preschool Needs visit
Washington Elementary Active
Jefferson Elementary Active
A teacher greeting young students as they arrive in the classroom
A teacher holding an apple picture card to a circle of seated children on a colorful rug
Young children building with wooden blocks at a classroom table
Children sharing a snack together at a preschool table
A child painting at an easel during a classroom art activity

Step 2 · Real Growth

Students move forward — and you can see how far.

Real skills growth, broken out by domain — so you can see where the program is working, and where to coach.

A district program is only worth running if students actually move. ARIS makes that movement visible — at every level, across every skill domain.

Growth shows up in every roll-up — student, classroom, school, and district — broken out by domain, so you can see where the program is working hardest and where to coach more deeply.

  • Growth rolled up by student, classroom, school, and district
  • Broken out across every ARIS skill domain
  • See where the program is working hardest — and where to coach
A district administrator reviewing student skills-growth data on a screen

Step 3 · Aligned to Frameworks

Aligned to every framework your district answers to.

Every lesson mapped to the standards and assessments your district has to answer to.

aris.stageslearning.com/lessons/19/standards
Stages Learning · ARIS Lessons · Receptive Labeling Live

Language · Receptive Language

Lesson 19

Receptive Labeling — 2D Picture Nouns

Structured Seq 2.2
ProceduresPromptingData SheetStandards & AlignmentNext Steps

VB-MAPP

Listener Responding · Milestone 5

ABLLS-R

C-5 · C-12

Head Start ELOF

Language & Communication · Goal P-LC 6

State ELA · K.L.5.a (or local equivalent)

Sort common objects into categories

IDEA Indicator 7

Preschool Outcome B

Same alignment in every classroom. Exportable for any audit.

Export PDF

The state comes for a monitoring visit. The board asks if the program is standards-aligned. A new family asks how this maps to VB-MAPP. You shouldn't be opening a binder to answer any of these.

ARIS teaches more than a thousand scaffolded skills, all mapped to VB-MAPP, ABLLS-R, the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework, and state ELA and Math standards — alignment available for every lesson, exportable for every audit, and consistent across every classroom that runs the program.

  • 1,000s of skills mapped to VB-MAPP, ABLLS-R, Head Start ELOF, and state standards
  • Alignment available on every lesson, exportable for audits
  • Same skills and alignment in every classroom — no per-teacher reinterpretation

Step 4 · Program in Motion

Run the program from where you sit.

Fidelity, coaching, and PD — visible district-wide, in real time. The buildings you can't visit this week are flagged before they drift.

The hard part of a district program isn't picking it — it's keeping it running across buildings you can't visit every week. Classrooms quietly drift, and you don't find out until you go asking.

ARIS shows the program in motion district-wide — onboarding, coaching, and fidelity by site, with Stages's implementation team working inside the same view. The sites that need attention surface on their own.

  • Fidelity dashboard by classroom, school, and site lead
  • Coaching touchpoints, onboarding completion, and PD activity visible district-wide
  • Onsite visits, virtual cohorts, and 1:1 coaching scheduled — and tracked — inside ARIS
  • Early-warning flags before a building drifts off the program
A teacher reviewing student progress on a laptop in the staff lounge
aris.stageslearning.com/district/program-health
Stages Learning · ARIS Hillview Unified · Program Health Live

District fidelity

84%

target 80%

Coaching this week

14/18

touchpoints completed

Sites needing visit

1

flagged · early

School Fidelity Active Last data Status
Maple Elementary Onboarding complete
92%
4 / 4 12m ago On track
Washington Elementary Onboarding complete
89%
5 / 5 14m ago On track
Lincoln Middle Lessons / week down
74%
3 / 4 2d ago Needs work
Roosevelt Preschool Logins below threshold
58%
1 / 3 6d ago At risk

Coaching & PD · this month

18

Onsite visits

24

Live virtual sessions

312

Teacher touchpoints

Step 5 · Evidence Rolls Up

Walk into the board meeting with numbers, not anecdotes.

Student → classroom → school → district. Generated as teachers teach.

A superintendent presenting district data to a school board meeting

Most district reporting on special ed is reconstructed once a year, late, from incomplete sources, by someone who didn't collect any of it. The board hears "teachers say it's going well." Parents hear vague reassurances. The state gets a slide deck that doesn't match the underlying data.

ARIS rolls evidence up automatically. Every data point a teacher takes during a lesson rolls into student progress, classroom progress, school progress, and district progress — broken out by skill category, by site, and by sub-population. The board chart you need for Tuesday is already built. The state report is already exportable. The cabinet conversation has actual numbers behind it.

  • Skills growth rolled up: student → classroom → school → district
  • Breakouts by content area, sub-skill, building, and program
  • Board-ready and state-ready exports, generated as teachers teach

Step 6 · Audit-Ready

When the questions come, the answers are already on the screen.

For any single student, the assessment-to-data chain is already assembled — for the IEP team, the parent meeting, the state monitor, or the dispute.

Every district faces the same moments — a monitoring visit, a parent dispute, an audit request with no warning. Each one comes down to whether the IEP and the data tell the same story.

In ARIS the chain is built in: the assessment sets the present levels, goals are written against it in IDEA-compliant language, lessons move each goal forward, and every data point is timestamped and mapped back. When the question comes, the answer is already assembled.

  • Assessment → goal → lesson → data chain, end to end
  • IDEA-compliant goal language, guided builder, level pickers
  • Timestamped, attributed data — ready for any single IEP under scrutiny
aris.stageslearning.com/students/amy-johnson/audit
Stages Learning · ARIS Amy Johnson · IEP Audit View Live

Amy Johnson · Audit view

Chain complete
  1. 1

    Assessment

    Skills assessment · Sept 12, 2025

    Receptive Labeling: 41% baseline

  2. 2

    Goal

    “Amy will receptively label 20 common nouns across 4 categories with 80% accuracy across 3 consecutive sessions.”

    Activated Sept 18, 2025 · IDEA-compliant

  3. 3

    Lessons

    L19 · L24 · L27

    Auto-mapped to this goal

  4. 4

    Data

    47 data sessions · last 9 days

    3 staff members · trend +18% over 90 days

  5. 5

    Progress report

    Generated for Q2 IEP team meeting · March 2026

    PDF · attached to the parent record

Every row links to the underlying record.

Export audit packet

One line item.
One vendor. One renewal.

Most districts buy this as five separate contracts — curriculum, assessment, data, IEP writing, and PD. ARIS makes it one line item on one renewal: one number to budget, one spend to defend, one team accountable.

A district leadership team reviewing the Special Ed Department dashboard on screen in a staff meeting
An ARIS curriculum kit — printed lessons and hands-on materials

Curriculum + Materials.

A complete, sequenced curriculum. Physical kits ship with every deployment.

ARIS

Assessment + IEP + Data.

Built in. One chain of evidence.

A coach and teachers meeting around a table in a classroom

PD + Coaching.

Embedded, scheduled, and visible to you.

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