The classroom assistant that gives you your evenings back

Your day starts with clarity instead of unknowns: student counts, goals on track, and today's incidents at a glance. The Morning Snapshot goes further — it recaps yesterday for you: how many incidents, what triggered them, which students to keep an eye on, and which interventions actually worked. You walk in already knowing what today needs.

How to use it

1. 1Open the Dashboard first thing — the Morning Snapshot sits at the top.
2. 2Scan the incident count, top triggers, and 'keep an eye on' students.
3. 3Note the interventions that worked yesterday so your first response is ready.
4. 4Tap any student card to jump straight to their full profile.

Under the stats on your dashboard, a weekly chart shows incidents per day for the last 7 days, plus your most frequent triggers and behaviors of the week. Patterns become visible — the day of the week that's hardest, the trigger driving most incidents — so you can change the setup before the behavior happens.

How to use it

1. 1Open the Dashboard and find 'Behavior Trends — Last 7 Days'.
2. 2Scan the daily bars to spot your hardest days.
3. 3Read the 'Top triggers' and 'Top behaviors' chips to see what's driving incidents.
4. 4Use the pattern to tweak seating, schedules, or supports for the week ahead.

Everything Spark does is grounded in rich profiles: diagnosis, communication style, sensory preferences, triggers, calming strategies, reinforcers, accommodations — plus what works and what doesn't, from your own experience. The richer the profile, the more individualized every AI answer, report, and parent update becomes. This is the record that used to live only in your head.

How to use it

1. 1Go to Students and click '+ Add Student'.
2. 2Fill in name, age, grade, diagnosis, and communication style.
3. 3Add sensory preferences, triggers, calming strategies, and reinforcers.
4. 4Record 'Things That Work' and 'Things That Don't Work' from your experience.
5. 5Save — then open the card to see their goals, behavior, and insights.

Already have your students in a spreadsheet? Upload it once and every profile is created in seconds — no typing names one by one.

How to use it

1. 1Go to Students and click 'Import from Spreadsheet'.
2. 2Upload your CSV — the AI reads the columns and maps them to profile fields.
3. 3Review the preview, then confirm to create every profile at once.

Many of your students share support patterns. Save any profile — its supports and default IEP goals — as a reusable template, and every new similar learner starts 80% pre-filled.

How to use it

1. 1Open a student's profile and click 'Save as Template' — name it something recognizable.
2. 2When adding a new student, choose 'Start from Template' instead of a blank form.
3. 3The profile fields and default IEP goals come pre-filled — adjust what's unique and save.

When a student graduates or moves schools, archive them instead of deleting: they leave your active list, but every behavior log, IEP goal, and milestone stays safely stored for reference or their records.

How to use it

1. 1On the Students page, tap the ⋮ menu on a student card and choose 'Archive (keep history)'.
2. 2Tap the 'Archived' button next to the search bar to view or search archived students.
3. 3Use 'Restore to active' if a student returns.
4. 4You can archive or restore from the student's profile page header too.

Set goals by category with target percentages, log each attempt as independent, prompted, or unable, and watch success rates update automatically. Come IEP meeting time, the mastery data is already compiled — no reconstructing progress from memory.

How to use it

1. 1Open a student's profile and go to the 'IEP Goals' tab.
2. 2Click 'Add Goal' — type the goal, pick a category, and set a target percentage.
3. 3Each day, tap Independent, Prompted, or Unable next to the goal.
4. 4Status indicators (On Track / Needs Attention / Concern) flag goals falling behind.

In a busy classroom, if logging takes more than a tap or two, it doesn't happen. Quick Log lives on every student page so data capture survives real life — and when a goal hits its target, a confetti burst celebrates the win.

How to use it

1. 1Open any student's page and tap 'Quick Log'.
2. 2For IEP progress: choose a goal and tap Independent, Prompted, or Unable.
3. 3For a behavior incident: pick the trigger, behavior, and intervention, then save.
4. 4You never leave the page — it's logged instantly.

Every incident is recorded as a structured chain — trigger, behavior, intervention, and whether it worked. Over weeks this becomes an evidence base: what precedes the behavior and what actually resolves it. Patterns emerge that memory alone never could.

How to use it

1. 1Go to Behavior Tracking and select the student.
2. 2Tap the trigger (Transition, Noise, Task demand…), behavior (Refusal, Meltdown…), and intervention used.
3. 3Add a short note if helpful, then click 'Log Incident'.
4. 4Later, tap 'Worked' on interventions that succeeded to build your evidence.

A drag-and-drop classroom grid linked to sensory profiles. Every seated student is one tap from their triggers, calming strategies, and automatic placement tips — 'sensitive to noise? seat away from the door' — so the room itself becomes part of the intervention.

How to use it

1. 1Go to Seating Chart and drag students from the tray onto the grid — dropping onto a filled seat swaps the two.
2. 2The ear icon marks students with sensory notes on file.
3. 3Tap any seated student for their sensory profile and placement tips.
4. 4Seats save automatically — your layout is there every time you return.

Spark automatically ranks the interventions that have actually worked for each student, with how often — so your first response next time is data-backed instead of guesswork.

How to use it

1. 1Open a student's profile and go to the 'What Worked' panel.
2. 2Review the ranked strategies with success counts and progress bars.
3. 3Reach for the top-ranked one the next time a similar incident occurs.

Progress in this field is made of small, precious moments — a first self-advocacy attempt, an unprompted kind gesture, a regulation breakthrough. Record them on the spot and mark them celebrated: a running highlight reel to share with families and IEP teams, and to lift you on the hard days.

How to use it

1. 1Open a student's profile and go to the 'Milestones' tab.
2. 2Give the win a short title, add details and the date, then click 'Record Milestone'.
3. 3Tap the party icon to mark it as Celebrated.
4. 4Look back anytime for positive moments to share with parents and teams.

Each profile opens with visuals: IEP mastery bars measured against targets and a 14-day behavior trend line — so you spot rising patterns before they become crises, and falling ones worth celebrating.

How to use it

1. 1Open any student from the Students page to land on their dashboard.
2. 2Review the IEP Mastery chart — each goal's success rate versus its target.
3. 3Check the 14-day Behavior Trend line for rising or falling incidents.
4. 4Use the stat cards for a quick snapshot of the whole picture.

Ask in plain words and get a four-part plan — Profile Synthesis, Targeted Redirection, Reinforcement Plan, and Pedagogical Accommodations — grounded in that student's actual profile and established clinical methods. If information is missing, he asks before guessing. It's like having a behavioral specialist on call, every day.

How to use it

1. 1Go to AI Assistant and select a student from the dropdown.
2. 2Type your question (e.g., 'What should I try when Jacob melts down during transitions?') or tap a suggested prompt.
3. 3Read the four-part plan — every recommendation tied to the student's profile.
4. 4Ask follow-ups freely; the conversation stays in context.

Scout is your instructional designer: it adapts general curriculum, designs targeted IEP interventions, and builds low-prep, sensory-friendly activities grounded in Universal Design for Learning. Mention a student by name and Scout reads their profile and goals to tailor everything — communication style, sensory needs, reinforcers included.

How to use it

1. 1Tap 'Ask Scout' — on the AI Assistant page, any student profile, or the IEP Goals tab.
2. 2Describe a lesson, activity, or goal to adapt — or tap the microphone and just speak.
3. 3Scout answers in five labeled sections: Target Skill & Objective, Materials & Setup, Step-by-Step Sequence, Access & Communication, and Sensory & Regulation Supports.
4. 4Tap the speaker icon to have the plan read aloud while you prep.

Paste any lesson and get six ready-to-use versions — Modified, Highly Supported, Visual, Non-Speaking, Sensory-Friendly, and Life-Skills — each tailored to the student's communication, sensory, and academic needs. Hours of adaptation work become about a minute. Need an activity from scratch? Describe it and receive objective, materials, steps, accommodations, and matching reinforcers.

How to use it

1. 1In the AI Assistant, select a student.
2. 2Ask to differentiate a lesson and paste your lesson content.
3. 3Copy whichever of the six adapted versions fits today's group.
4. 4Or describe an activity you need and get a complete classroom-ready plan.

Every AI chat — Dr. Brooks, Scout, and Specialis — lets you tap the microphone and just talk, and can read replies aloud. Plan aloud while you prep materials, with messy hands or a full arms-load of supplies.

How to use it

1. 1In any AI chat, tap the microphone button and speak your question naturally.
2. 2Tap the speaker icon to turn spoken replies on or off.
3. 3Ask follow-ups out loud — the whole conversation can be hands-free.

Anywhere you see a Dictate button — sticky notes, behavior notes, Quick Log, the document composer and editor — you can speak instead of type. Record a lesson recap or a whole conversation, stop, and the AI turns it into clean text. On a busy day, it's the difference between capturing it and losing it.

How to use it

1. 1Tap 'Dictate' next to any note field and speak naturally.
2. 2Tap 'Stop & Transcribe' when done — your words appear as editable text.
3. 3Dictate long passages too — a full lesson, a parent conversation, not just short notes.

Explain what you need — a social story, a letter home, a data summary, a sub plan — and the AI writes the complete document exactly as you described. Keep works-in-progress in Drafts, publish finished documents to your Library, edit anything anytime, and export every document as a PDF or print it in one tap.

How to use it

1. 1Go to Documents and describe the document — its setup, sections, tone, and details — by typing or dictating.
2. 2Tap 'Create' and the full document appears, ready to edit.
3. 3Adjust anything in the editor — or dictate your changes — then 'Save as Draft' or 'Publish to Library'.
4. 4Return to Drafts to finish later; published library documents stay editable too.
5. 5Use 'Save as PDF' or 'Print' on any document, in either list.

Build a personal, searchable library of calming techniques, teaching strategies, sensory tools, reinforcers, and transition supports — so the right tool is one search away in the moment, not buried in a binder.

How to use it

1. 1Go to Strategies and click '+ Add Strategy'.
2. 2Pick a category and describe how to use it.
3. 3Search by name or filter by category when you need it fast.
4. 4Tap the star to favorite your go-to strategies so they float to the top.

A wall of color-coded sticky notes for anything worth remembering: call a parent, prep materials, a great moment in class. Drag notes anywhere to organize them, dictate instead of typing, and play any note aloud when your hands are full.

How to use it

1. 1Go to Notes & Memos, pick a color, and type — or tap Dictate and speak.
2. 2Click 'Add Note' and drag it anywhere on the board.
3. 3Tap the speaker icon on a note to hear it read aloud in natural speech.
4. 4Tap the trash icon to remove a note you're done with.

Spark reads the day's goal progress and behavior data and writes a warm, encouraging, jargon-free note home — the kind families actually look forward to reading. Edit it if you like, then copy, save, or text it.

How to use it

1. 1Go to Parent Updates and select a student.
2. 2Click 'Generate Update' — the AI drafts it from today's real data.
3. 3Personalize further if you'd like, then copy, save, or mark it sent.

Connect your Twilio account once, add parent contacts, and then a single button writes and texts every family their child's personalized daily update — showing progress as it goes. Family communication goes from a chore you postpone to a habit that runs itself.

How to use it

1. 1On the Parent Updates page, follow the Text Message Setup guide for your Twilio account.
2. 2Add a parent contact (name, phone, carrier) for each student.
3. 3Tap 'Auto-Send to All Parents' — Spark writes and sends each update with live progress.
4. 4Every sent update is saved to your history automatically.

Pick a date range and every student's incident counts, top triggers, intervention success rates, and IEP mastery compile into a clean, printable summary — ready for admin, IEP meetings, or your own records. The end-of-week report writes itself.

How to use it

1. 1Go to Weekly Report and choose the last 7, 14, or 30 days.
2. 2Review each student's compiled trends and mastery.
3. 3Tap 'Print / PDF' to save or share the document.
4. 4Tip: schedule a recurring email under Workflows to have it delivered automatically.

Most classroom management software fails because it demands screen time mid-lesson, feels punitive, and leaves you without a paper trail when it matters. Pivot flips all three: one-tap logging that keeps you teaching, positive-first coaching that holds your 4:1 ratio, a student kiosk for calm-down resets without confrontation, and voice notes the AI converts into objective incident records — all compiled into parent-ready and admin-ready PDF reports.

How to use it

1. 1Tap a positive or correction chip the moment it happens — one hand, one tap, eyes still on class.
2. 2Let the ratio meter keep your 4:1 positive-to-corrective goal on track; Pivot nudges you after three corrections in a row.
3. 3Send a struggling student to the kiosk on a classroom tablet: they name their feeling, pick a calming strategy, and set a reset goal — timestamped quietly to your log.
4. 4After class, dictate a 20-second whisper note; the AI turns it into an objective, factual incident record.
5. 5Generate a Parent & Admin Report PDF anytime — patterns, ratios, and a clean timeline of every intervention.

Adapting one lesson for varied reading levels, English language learners, and IEP/504 accommodations can eat your evenings. Paste any assignment into Diffy and instantly receive three tiers — foundation, on-grade, advanced — that keep the same vocabulary and thinking goals, plus a dual-language glossary, sentence starters, and one universal rubric aligned to Common Core. Print-ready, and discreetly labeled with shapes instead of level names.

How to use it

1. 1Open Diffy, paste your assignment or passage, and add the grade level.
2. 2Tap 'Generate 3 tiers' — foundation, on-grade, and advanced versions appear, each exportable as PDF or Word.
3. 3Hand out the ELL supports: a dual-language glossary and sentence starters.
4. 4Grade all three versions with the single universal rubric.
5. 5Every generation is saved — reopen it from the Saved materials list anytime.

A floating chat button on every screen: tap it to ask 'how do I…' without leaving what you're doing, press-and-hold to drag it anywhere, and bring it back anytime from the Support page.

How to use it

1. 1Look for the floating Specialis button on any app screen.
2. 2Tap once to open the chat and ask how to use any feature.
3. 3Press and hold to drag it anywhere — it remembers its spot.

An AI expert that knows every feature answers your questions instantly — and for anything it can't resolve, the Special Team is one short form away.

How to use it

1. 1Go to Support and ask anything about using the app.
2. 2Tap a suggested question or type your own.
3. 3If it can't help, click 'Contact the Special Team' and submit the form — we follow up by email.

Spark installs like a native app on your phone, tablet, or desktop — full screen, one tap away, ready for the classroom floor.

How to use it

1. 1iPhone or iPad: open the app in Safari, tap Share, then 'Add to Home Screen'.
2. 2Android: open in Chrome, tap the menu, then 'Install app'.
3. 3Desktop: click the install icon in the address bar (Chrome or Edge).