Who this is for.
Accord is the place where the work of serving students with an IEP gets recorded as it happens — sessions delivered, goal data taken with the student. It's also where Texas's new funding determination is supported by the IEP itself.
Your dashboard.
The dashboard is the first thing you see when you open Accord. Today's sessions and the students you need to take goal data on are at the top, with the rest of the week visible underneath. Action items collect anything still open — a session from last week that needs to be addressed, goal data due on a student, a funding determination waiting in your queue.
Services and goal data.
Logging a service is one tap. When a session is delivered, you confirm it happened with everyone present, and you can mark students absent if needed.
Goal data is taken on your phone during the session, so the data goes in as the trial happens rather than getting written down somewhere and entered later. Each goal shows the baseline, the target, and the most recent data point as you go, so you can see how the student is tracking while you're still with them.
Determining tier and service groups.
Texas's New Intensity of Services Funding Model is the framework every district uses going forward to classify students with an IEP into a tier and up to two service groups.
Whenever a student's IEP is uploaded into Accord, you get a proposal for the factors required to make the determination, with the reasoning visible on each one. TEA's rubric language and the IEP evidence the proposal drew from are accessible while you rate. You review the proposal and complete it.
Unlike TEA's tool, you can save your work in Accord and come back later.
Bringing Accord to your district starts with a conversation with your SPED director. Drop us a note and we'll figure it out together.