Streamline Your MTSS Implementation
with ONE Simple Solution
Our Approach
Comprehensiveness ~ Effectiveness ~ User-Friendliness
The STEEP process was founded in 2004 by educational scientists to take scientifically proven education strategies and put them into practical application. More specifically, we pioneered the integration of benchmarking and online progress monitoring into an integrated process to enhance student performance. Our research outcomes earned us early recognition, leading to a citation in the Congressional Record as demonstrating large-scale efficacy for the RTI process. This recognition contributed to federal backing for what has evolved into the MTSS framework. We have since collaborated with various state education departments to implement MTSS on a statewide scale. Our approach focuses on:
- Enhanced Student Performance: iSTEEP aims to boost student achievement, aligning with our core mission - Integrated System to Enhance Educational Performance (ISTEEP).
- Research-Driven: Founded on rigorous research to deliver effective educational strategies to schools.
- Essential School Needs: Our platform is tailored for: Comprehensiveness, Effectiveness, and User-Friendliness.
Comprehensiveness
- Simplicity Meets Comprehensiveness: By combining all necessary tools into a single, cohesive solution, there's no longer a need to juggle separate systems for reading and math screening, diagnostics, interventions, or data management. Enhanced functionality allows for precise support, enabling you to assist a broader range of students effectively.
- One Platform. With iSTEEP, educators have a one-stop platform that simplifies data collection, decision-making, and reporting, without the hassle of using multiple services or managing data transfers between them.
Science of Reading
iSTEEP provides a comprehensive Science of Reading assessment system that goes beyond universal screening. Screening measures address both major components of skilled reading—Word Recognition and Language Comprehension—so schools can identify whether difficulty is rooted in word reading, meaning, or both. When students need a closer look, iSTEEP offers comprehensive diagnostics and matching progress-monitoring measures across approximately 20 reading skills, ranging from phonemic awareness, decoding, multisyllabic word reading, and fluency to morphology, vocabulary, sentence comprehension, passage comprehension, and inferencing. This creates a continuous system for screening, pinpointing the underlying skill need, targeting instruction, and monitoring growth on the same skill being taught.
Read the Words
Phonemic Awareness
Decoding
Fluency
Multisyllabic Words
Understand the Meaning
Vocabulary
Morphology
Sentence Comprehension
Inferencing
Effectiveness
At the heart of iSTEEP is effectiveness. Our tools and strategies are grounded in evidence-based research, ensuring that they work in real educational settings.
The iSTEEP Platform WORKS! iSTEEP is unique in that we not only have data on reliability and validity of assessments but we also have the published and award winning peer reviewed data showing the program tools, decision rules and framework produce good outcomes for students.
User-Friendliness
Our system is easy to use because even the most effective strategies are rendered useless if they aren't utilized correctly. Bringing everything together in a single platform requires that you learn, use and support ONE simple solution.
iSTEEP: Streamlining MTSS in Schools with
Our Comprehensive MTSS Program
Ultimately, our platform aims to provide a seamless and effective approach to implementing MTSS within your school. By integrating comprehensive assessments and diagnostics along with integrated interventions into a user-friendly system, we support educators to confidently implement multi-tiered systems of support, ensuring every student receives the appropriate assistance. Our platform simplifies the MTSS process and enhances MTSS in schools, aligning with best practices in MTSS education. This makes it an invaluable tool for any district seeking to strengthen their MTSS program and optimize their RTI/MTSS outcomes.
Dyslexia Screening
iSTEEP is approved by multiple states for required Dyslexia Screening. Multiple measures are available to address required skill areas and most are timed for just 1-minute!