Encore Special Education
The unique combination of built-in compliance, accountability, accessibility and performance provided by Encore’s patented, easy-to-use IEP software solution dramatically reduces the time required to plan and track student achievement while also increasing the completeness, accuracy and accessibility of program information. All aspects of special education and IEP data management are included from referral to evaluation to initiation of delivery of services. Across the U.S., school districts ranging in size from 300 to over 300,000 have seen quantifiable benefits from implementing Encore including:
- Reducing the number of overdue IEPs
- Eliminating the majority of IEP procedural compliance issues
- Decreasing the time spent preparing IEPs
- Decreasing the length of IEP meetings
- Increased effectiveness of IEP meetings
- Reducing staff turnover
- Special education cost savings
- Improvements in reading and test scores
Compliance and Accountability
With an increasing number of children receiving individualized instruction and the advent of NCLB and IDEIA, ensuring compliance and accountability has never been more critical, more difficult or more costly. Encore’s built-in compliance checking and extensive reporting capabilities ensures compliance with federal and state law and reporting. With the Encore IEP software, customers have successfully and dramatically reduced the number of overdue IEP’s and reduced the number of compliance issues and costs.
Accessibility
Encore IEP software is 100% web-based which provides anywhere, anytime access via an internet connection using either a PC or Apple system. Teachers and service providers no longer have to copy or pass student folders. Student support teams can work collaboratively on student IEPs or evaluations to ensure better, student-focused decisions based on the most current information. Instant access to every IEP gives administrators the comfort of knowing the information they are conveying to parents is current and accurate. In addition, Encore supports daily, automatic, bidirectional data exchange with a district’s existing student information system so student data is automatically pre-filled on forms, reducing data entry time.
Performance
Teachers want to spend time educating and helping students achieve, not filling out paperwork. Encore was designed by educators with one goal in mind – reduce the time spent on paperwork. Encore uses teacher-friendly forms that are familiar and easy to learn. Through the combination of productivity tools (like pre-filled student information, color-coding on forms to identify categories of information, and spell checking), automatic assembling of forms, automatic tracking of upcoming meetings, and a visible “to-do” list to determine what is due without having to look through each student’s folder, Encore reduces the time to prepare IEPs and manage caseloads – freeing more time to teach.
