Curriculum + Materials.
A complete, sequenced curriculum. Physical kits ship with every deployment.
For District Superintendents
Built for compliance. Designed for outcomes. Proven to reduce your district's costliest special ed expenses.
ARIS gives district leadership a unified framework for special education — implemented consistently across your district, designed to reduce outplacements, teacher turnover, and litigation risk, and backed by an implementation team you don't have to manage. So when the board asks, the state asks, a parent asks, or a reporter asks, the answer is already on the screen.
Thursday · 6:42 PM
Board meeting at 7. The slide is already built.
Hillview Unified · Overview
Live
487
Students
38
Classrooms
12
Schools
Fidelity
84%
Growth · YoY
+18%
Special education is your highest-stakes program. It deserves more than improvisation.
Most districts are running as many special ed approaches as they have teachers. ARIS brings a consistent framework across your classrooms — same methodology, shared data, aligned practices — so instructional quality doesn't depend on who happens to be in the room.
By the time a special education concern reaches your office, it's usually been simmering for weeks — a parent filing, a state flag, a complaint a board member fielded at the grocery store. By then the question isn't whether to act. It's whether you have an answer ready.
Most districts don't, because they don't have one program — they have what accreted: a different curriculum, assessment, and data system in nearly every building. No one chose it; it's what happens when nobody's had the bandwidth to consolidate.
ARIS is the consolidation. A common framework for assessment, lesson sequencing, materials, data, and coaching — giving your schools a shared foundation instead of a different approach in every room. Consistent district-wide. Individualized for every learner inside it.
aris.stageslearning.com/district/program-overview
Hillview Unified · Program Overview
Live
12
Schools
8
Active
3
Onboarding
1
Needs visit
School Program status
Maple Elementary Active
Washington Elementary Active
Jefferson Elementary Active
Lincoln Middle Active
Adams Elementary Active
Kennedy Elementary Active
Franklin Elementary Active
Monroe Elementary Active
Roosevelt Preschool Onboarding
Hoover Early Learning Onboarding
Madison Middle Onboarding
Pierce Intermediate Needs visit
An answer ready for the board, the state, the parent, and the auditor.
The same source of truth, exported for whoever is asking.
You don't get one audience. You get all of them, and they don't ask the same questions. The board wants outcomes and equity. The state wants compliance and indicator data. Parents want to know what's happening for their child specifically. Auditors want the chain of evidence. Reporters want a story. The board wants to know what's working and what isn't.
ARIS builds the answers to all of them at the same time, from the same source. Every data point a teacher takes during a lesson rolls into student, classroom, school, and district progress — broken out by skill domain, by building, and by program. The board chart you need for next Thursday is already built. The state report is already exportable. The parent in your office on Friday afternoon can be shown her child's own evidence chain in under a minute.
The work in most of those moments is evidence assembly — pulling together what's scattered. In ARIS, the assembly already happened.
Hillview Unified · Skills growth
Live
Skills growth across the district
2025–26 · by domain Communication 71%
Social-Emotional 64%
Motor & Self-Help 78%
Academic Readiness 69%
Behavior & Routines 73%
Recent exports
Board packet generated for Mar 14 meeting
State Indicator 7 report submitted Apr 2
IEP team summary · Amy Johnson Mar 28
Equity audit · all sub-populations YTD
One contract. One line item. One renewal.
The contract that lands on your desk for signature is the same one that explains the program.
Most districts pay for special education across five separate contracts: a curriculum vendor, an assessment tool, a data collection app, an IEP-writing platform, and a PD or consulting line. Five renewal cycles. Five vendor relationships. Five places where the program can fail audit. And no one accountable when something doesn't connect to something else.
ARIS replaces all five with one platform, one renewal, and one team accountable end to end. Materials kits ship with deployment. Coaching is included. The budget line is defensible because it's defensible in plain English — one program, one vendor, one number.
Procurement simplifies. Finance simplifies. Board explanation simplifies.
Most districts buy
Curriculum vendor
Assessment tool
Data collection app
IEP-writing platform
PD / consulting line
With ARIS
One ARIS program
One contract · one renewal · one team accountable end to end.
Single line item
Built to run well without pulling you in.
You see what's running. Your team runs it. Stages supports them.
A district program that depends on the superintendent to keep it running isn't a district program. It's a project — and projects stall the moment your attention moves to the next crisis.
Stages' implementation support is embedded inside ARIS — onboarding modules, weekly coaching prompts, individualized coaching appointments, and customizable professional learning. Fidelity and implementation metrics are accessible on a district dashboard, but none of it lands on your desk to coordinate.
Sites that need attention surface automatically. Buildings drifting off the program are flagged before the drift shows up in outcomes. Nothing depends on you remembering to follow up.
aris.stageslearning.com/district/program-health
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 Last data Status
Maple Elementary 92% 12m ago On track
Washington Elementary 89% 14m ago On track
Lincoln Middle 74% 2d ago Watch
Roosevelt Preschool 58% 6d ago Needs visit
One line item. One vendor. One renewal.
For district leadership, ARIS consolidates what most districts buy as five separate contracts into a single program, a single renewal, and a single team accountable end to end.
Assessment + IEP + Data.
Built in. One chain of evidence.
PD + Coaching.
Embedded, scheduled, and visible district-wide.
“Lisa and Michelle are approachable and relatable, and their ideas and expertise were quickly recognized during their time in the Wayne schools. They spoke with numerous staff members across our 15 schools and were able to provide a quick turnaround on some emergent special education needs.”
“Our trainer, Penney, was authentic, fun, engaging and tuned into the needs of our team.”
“One of the biggest considerations for the district was that we had numerous students coming to school so deficient in basic skills that we felt we needed a program to address it.”
“ARIS bridges gaps other programs don't address and opens doors to learning for our students. It focuses on the skills that aren't taught in other products - communication, social interactions, academic readiness. It's why we've seen such significant and consistent gains.”
“We absolutely love Stages Learning. Well worth the investment.”
“ARIS has been an incredibly valuable tool for our ASD programs in building continuity of evidence-based instructional design across our K-12 programs. It aligns perfectly with our domain-based, tiered EBP framework and supports new and experienced teachers with delivering high-quality, specially designed instruction.”
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