“These goals are not for American or British curriculum or even IB curriculum. These goals are for students, plain and simple.”
What is it?
Strategic Tracking of Educational Progress (STEP) provides international educators with a contemporary, comprehensive, and collaborative tool for tracking and monitoring student progress. STEP allows international school teachers to easily assign goals for Individual Learning Plans or Response to Intervention plans from a bank of nearly 4,000 goals and objectives. The program gives instructors the ability to systematically document progress over time and instantly see visual data representations that facilitate informed curriculum decisions.
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The key features of STEP involve Assigning, Assessing, and Reporting
Assignment
STEP provides international educators with immediate access to nearly 5000 goals and objectives. The goal bank draws on 37 essential curriculum components in the areas of:
Mathematics
Language Arts
Reading
Adaptive PE
Career
Organization
Fine Motor
Social-Emotional
Gross Motor
Study Skills
Literature
In addition to a preloaded goal bank, educators can personalize the percentage of mastery for each goal, identify which goals and objectives need to be targeted, and create bespoke student goals of their own.
Assessment
Say goodbye to burdensome spreadsheets and data tables! With the STEP system and the proven technology of Unitus TI, logging data is efficient, accurate, and easy. STEP reduces time spent on administrative tasks, leaving educators more time for teaching.
Reporting
Student success stems from making informed strategic teaching decisions based on current progress monitoring. Prioritizing informed decision-making is made painless with STEP. Utilizing STEP’s tools, international educators can provide reports on student progress to their full team that are VISUAL, SECURE, and IN REAL TIME.
Who is it for?
Strategic Tracking of Educational Progress (STEP) is made for teachers by teachers in the international school community.
STEP considers the wrap around approach to student success providing all members of a student’s team with a secure platform for logging and accessing information as well as initiating collaborative communications.
Teachers & Therapists
For teachers and therapists STEP provides several benefits:
Nearly 5000 goals and objectives for teachers and therapists to access, in order to create individualized learning plans and response to intervention programs.
Settings to create customized goals.
Tools for secure note taking and sharing.
Private and secure channels for communicating with parents and staff.
Create visual representations of student progress over time.
Cloud backup for all data, notes, and goals.
Administrators
For administrators, STEP provides an opportunity for oversight and differentiation. Benefits include:
Bird’s eye view of all students receiving services and their progress over time.
Execute and monitor all privacy settings – over 10 levels.
Monitor services provided by outside therapists.
Secured, encrypted, and backed up data on the cloud that seamlessly plugs into your school’s existing LMS.
Differentiates your school from others with visual representations, secure and cloud backed up data.
Improving efficiency of administrative duties giving your teaching staff more time for classroom instruction.
Enhances consistency, oversight, and accountability for student services.
Parents
Parents are also an essential part of the student’s educational team and STEP helps connect them to their child’s education in real time! Benefits for parents include:
Home to school communication made easy with internal communication embedded into the STEP system.
Up-to-date visual representations of their child’s progress over time.
Secure records to set their mind at ease.
Why should you use it?
A 30-year body of educational research indicates that when consistent progress monitoring is employed through response to intervention methods and learning plans, student learning increases, student agency improves, and teacher decision-making is enhanced. Simply put, progress monitoring is one of the pillars for educational and social-emotional progress!
STEP is an incredible resource for education teams, streamlining and enhancing progress monitoring and enriching the student learning process with two crucial components:
Providing 4,000 goals and objectives educators can use to build student learning plans and response to intervention plans.
Offering a visual, secure, and collaborative platform for support teams to collect and share data/notes as well as communicate with each other.
In addition, as an all-inclusive resource for teachers, therapists, and administrators they will have access to the Remfrey Educational Consulting team for hands-on training and have access to in depth resources on many more topics related to Learning Support and Response to Intervention.
How does it work?
Delivered through the UnitusTI electronic data records cloud
Access from any device, anywhere in the world
STEP is a subscription-based service delivered through the UnitusTI cloud. It was created with the goal of improving student achievement, growth, and wellbeing. By empowering educators, parents, and therapists to establish appropriate goals and objectives, monitor progress, collaborate with team members, and enhance curriculums based on real-time, visual data, STEP is a valuable resource for international educators and families.
STEP simply plugs into an existing learning management system to seamlessly access student goals and progress.
Teachers with access to STEP can utilize its bank of 4,000 goals and objectives, create their own customized goals and instantly see and securely share visual representations of students’ progress over time.
STEP is also designed to allow educational teams, outside service providers, and parents to communicate about student progress within a secure network.
STEP is delivered to professionals via subscription to the UnitusTI electronic data records (EDR) cloud.
Leading-edge data collection, staff and client management tools and program templates are built right into UnitusTI.
See instant data and quickly graph progress to make informed decisions
Provide reports and share relevant data securely with others
Track staff performance and give them collaboration tools to keep your practice on track
Customizable data collection means you can track as much or as little as you need to keep business humming and your clients happy
UnitusTI capabilities include:
Assessments | Programs | Curricula | Data Acquisition Types | Program Maintenance | Target Maintenance | Pre-defined Reports | Customizable Reports | Service Code Tracking | Session Notes | Graphing | Calendar | Internal Messaging | Document Storage | Session Tracking | Interactive Materials | Role-based Access | Multimedia | Automatic Backups | Billing Prep | Real-time Data Monitoring
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*Strategic Tracking of Educational Progress (STEP) is owned and copyrighted by the program author and is provided by Mundo Pato Inc. as an optional, 3rd party add-on to the UnitusTI electronic data records cloud service. Some of the information on this web page has been provided by external sources. Mundo Pato Inc. is not responsible for the accuracy, reliability or currency of the information supplied by external sources. Users wishing to rely upon this information should consult directly with the source of the information.
About the Author
April J Remfrey, MS, is an educational consultant working with globally mobile families who have children with special needs. Her primary role involves supporting her clients through the process of selecting and applying to new schools. She is passionate and committed to helping families make smooth and successful transitions – ultimately facilitating educational and social-emotional progress.
Throughout her career, April has observed countless students move from one school to the next and have their stories lost in the process. It is her goal to keep their stories alive, specifically enabling educational support teams to understand what strategies work best for their new student, how the student processes information, and who the student is at his/her core. She believes in a wrap around approach, where former educators, families, outside professionals, and present educational teams work together to ensure that a comprehensive and appropriate support system is created for each student.
April double majored in special and elementary education at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, USA, and received a Master’s Degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA in Exceptional Education. She has been a teacher for 20 years, in three different countries, and has experience in public, private, and international schools. Her teaching experiences span the wide range of student needs. Most prominent are her specialties in developing social skills programs, creating strong cooperative teaching relationships, and implementing student progress monitoring systems.
In addition to her work with students, April organizes online and in-person parenting workshops. Along the same vein, April runs an online Swiss-based parent support group for parents of students with special needs and serves on the board of directors for SENIA-Europe (Special Education Network and Inclusion Association).
Since 2013, April, her husband, and their daughter have lived in Zurich, Switzerland. Never one to sit still, April likes to hike in the stunning Swiss Alps, play clarinet in the local concert band and orchestra, and experience new foods from as many cultures as possible.