Solutions

Designing elegant solutions to craft products of our own imagination.

We specialize in smart solutions.

When Red Cedar embarks on a project to craft authentic software solutions, the team often employs an ethnographic approach to discovering how users will interact with design ideas.

Areas of Expertise

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Special Education

Creating software that is accessible for all.

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Early Childhood

Shaping good students starts early.

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Education Improvement

Designing data-driven solutions for schools.

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Creating reports for school improvement teams.

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Special Education

Creating software that is accessible for all.

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Early Childhood

Shaping good students starts early.

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Education Improvement

Designing data-driven solutions for schools.

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Title 1

Creating reports for school improvement teams.

Our Product

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Stepwell is a collaborative web-based platform providing visibility for all aspects of special education compliance and monitoring at the district, regional and state levels, including Parts B and C compliance with the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).

Our Custom Work

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See how Michigan’s public and nonpublic K-12 schools and students are faring by exploring student test results, school operational information, graduation and dropout rates. Queries provide point-in-time and, change-over-time data information at the state, ISD, district, and school levels with the opportunity to customize comparisons and filtering.

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Previous Custom Work

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This mobile app/web application was created to support the implementation of effective transition practices to ensure all students, but particularly students with disabilities, are prepared for post-secondary education, employment and independent living. The mobile app allows educators to regularly and easily observe and note students’ preparedness for transition. The BackStory web application allows users to: review State assessment and demographic data related to students with disabilities; understand secondary transition and post-secondary outcomes data reported in compliance with the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act; and look at local economic trends to assess the match between student preparedness and high-demand jobs.

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By teaming with empowered schools and communities, passionate partners, and dedicated corporate sponsors, Complete Class is a new model for motivating students to maximize their potential and realize their dreams! This online application allows teachers and students to work together to improve nutrition and promote healthy living. Students complete challenges such as answering questions, watching videos, and completing fitness activities as they earn badges and increase their self-esteem and self-image.

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Students use Eli to do three important tasks: writing, reviewing, and revising. Writing tasks can be completed by composing in Eli or uploading a file. Reviews are done in Eli, guided by criteria provided by teachers. Students use the feedback they receive to make revision plans, and then revise & resubmit their drafts. The result? Better writing and, more importantly, better writers!

Michigan’s Statewide System of Support

Michigan’s High Priority schools have been afforded an extraordinary number of resources from the Michigan Department of Education, intermediate schools districts and others. With these resources comes the need to request, coordinate and report the activities of Regional Support Coaches, Data Coaches, Field Service Representatives, Instructional Coaches and Process Mentors. This online application allows High Priority schools to manage these various service providers as they utilize Data Driven Decision-making strategies to investigate, select and implement evidence based interventions in their school.

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Orange Grove is a web-based, collaborative space that supports school performance management: it helps schools identify learning needs, implement interventions, monitor progress and determine the effectiveness of interventions. Because Orange Grove scaffolds a process, course corrections are intuitive and visible to the entire team. Orange Grove is about more than just monitoring and reporting – it’s about doing!

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Epicenter is like having your own expert analyst providing apples-to-apples comparisons of academic impact – across schools, grades, subjects, tests, or even a portfolio of schools. This web-based system generates reports on college readiness and growth using the results of Global Scholars Performance Series®, NWEA Measures of Academic Progress®, and ACT Inc.’s® Explore®, Plan®, and ACT® series.