Strategic StudentIntervention Recommender
A student is struggling. Which supports fit your role and their needs?
Your short list shows up here
Four answers, about 30 seconds.
How this works
Your answers filter the library first. A support stays on the list only if it addresses a concern you picked, fits the grade band, is something your role can start or ask for, and matches the urgency.
- Prevention: supports for all students.
- Showing warning signs: adds targeted supports.
- Needs help now: targeted and intensive supports. Formal steps such as attendance meetings and contracts appear only here.
Supports built mostly for other grades are left out. One that only touches your band at its edge, such as grades 5 to 12 for K-5, does not show.
Supports that fit only a student in a specific situation, such as an IEP, a chronic illness, or losing housing, are not ranked. They show under If it applies, with the situation named.
Then it ranks. Evidence counts most, then fit with the urgency, whether your role usually leads it, and whether it was built for this grade band. Supports that cover more than one of your concerns move up. Ties go to the one that covers more of your concerns, then stronger evidence, then the closer fit to the urgency. Near-duplicates are dropped, so you see one of each kind.
For teachers, counselors, and families, schoolwide programs an administrator runs come after supports you can start. Each card says whether you can start it or who usually leads it.
Every concern you picked gets at least one support. If nothing fits a concern at the urgency you picked, the list adds the closest support one step outside it and marks it Wider match.
Evidence labels
- Strong: at least one well-run randomized trial found a positive effect.
- Moderate: at least one well-run quasi-experimental study found a positive effect.
- Promising: at least one correlational study with controls found a positive effect.
- Rationale: built on research logic but not yet tested. Track results as you go.
- Required by law: a legal duty, not a research rating.
MTSS tiers. Tier 1 is for all students. Tier 2 is targeted support for some. Tier 3 is intensive, individual support.
Weigh these with your team before you start one.