Polaris

Polaris Administrator Implementation Guide

Support successful Polaris implementation across your organization. Learn how to manage users, monitor compliance and help educators deliver high-quality, data-driven IEPs.

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Introduction

Welcome to the Polaris Administrator Implementation Guide. The guide does not need to be completed in a single session; you are welcome to pause and return at any time to fit your schedule and learning needs. Administrators who actively engage with the practice opportunities, interactive activities, and reflection prompts will gain the greatest benefit from the experience.

What is Polaris? 

Polaris streamlines and simplifies every step of the IEP planning process, empowering educators to transfer well drafted IEPs to their school's IEP management system that demonstrate alignment of assessment data, present levels, and annual goals. Easily connect student performance on assessments and lesson assignments to track progress of targeted skills and provide clear progress monitoring data.

Every step of the IEP, connected

  • Generated present levels: Brings together results from embedded and connected assessments, then turns them into clear present levels of student performance.
  • Suggested SMART goals: Suggests specific, measurable, and realistic standards-aligned goals that align directly to targeted skill areas of need.
  • Recommended accommodations: Recommends supports that align with identified student needs, such as changes to instruction, materials, or the learning environment.
  • Suggested lesson activities: Suggests standards-aligned lessons that connect directly to the student's goals, aligning the IEP to everyday instruction.
  • Automated progress monitoring: Turns data into helpful insights that make it easy to track how each IEP goal is developing and decide when to continue or implement interventions.
  • Generated progress reports: Provides reports that are simple to read and quick to act on. Communicate progress clearly across the whole IEP team.

Getting started with Polaris

  • Follow the four-step administrator timeline to successfully implement Polaris in your schools.
Step 1

Onboard

Allocate licenses and familiarize yourself with the Everway leadership hierarchy of roles and the processes for adding faculty and students.

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Step 2

Use

Guide educators as they complete initial training and learn core workflows.

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Step 3

Engage

Determine usage expectations and develop a communication plan for educators and service providers.

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Step 4

Adopt

Provide ongoing maintenance and support for consistent product use.

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