TIERSPRING
Tierspring is a private caseload tool for student success specialists, counselors, and MTSS coordinators — referrals, interventions, check-in/check-out, and transparent risk insight, all on one Mac. No cloud. No accounts. No vendor with access to student data.
Request a pilot Read the security whitepaperBuilt and used daily by a working student success specialist. Signed & notarized for macOS.
Why districts say yes
Every record lives in a single database on the specialist's district-managed Mac. Tierspring makes zero network requests: no sync, no telemetry, no vendor account. That means most of a data-privacy agreement is simply not applicable, procurement is a purchase order instead of a data-sharing negotiation, and your IT team can verify the whole claim themselves in five minutes.
Student data never reaches the vendor — there is nowhere for it to go. FileVault provides encryption at rest under your MDM.
Full audit history, note revisions preserved on every edit, archives instead of silent deletion. What was known, when.
Every risk score shows its factors and evidence, uses your district's rules, and can be overridden with a documented reason. No black boxes.
Developer ID signed, notarized by Apple, hardened runtime. Updates ship as full signed installers your district controls.
What it does
Student profiles that lead with strengths, staff referrals routed by grade, response-time tracking in school days.
Goal lines, rate of improvement, and four-point decision rules from national progress-monitoring standards — with dosage and fidelity, not just scores.
Full CICO workflow for Tier 2: printable point cards, daily entry or CSV import from a Google Form your district owns, goal-met trends, and fade suggestions.
Attendance tiers and an ABC on-track indicator (attendance, behavior, course performance) built on the early-warning research base.
Support cards and teacher strategy sheets in English and Spanish, strengths-first transition packets for the move to high school — all one-click PDFs.
Capture fall/winter/spring snapshots, compare movement between windows, and answer "is this working?" with nine built-in reports.
Try it
A working slice of Tierspring with five fictional students. Open a profile and move through the tabs — grades and attendance, a progress-monitoring chart with an aim line, check-in/check-out points, case notes, and the timeline. Click any risk score to see every point traced to a factor and its evidence, and try overriding one. This demo is the only part of Tierspring that ever touches a browser — the real app runs entirely on the specialist's computer.
TierspringAll five students are fictional. The real app also covers meetings, family contacts, screening windows, and one-click PDFs in English and Spanish.
In full
Pricing
Platforms charge $5–20 per student per year, district-wide. Tierspring is one specialist's tool, so it's priced like one — a flat annual license that fits under most districts' small-purchase threshold. A purchase order, not an RFP.
Founding pilot districts: first year discounted in exchange for feedback and a reference. Limited to keep support personal.
How buying works
A 30-minute demo — live on real (demo) data, with your specialist and whoever signs POs.
IT review — the whitepaper plus a five-minute hands-on verification that nothing leaves the device.
Invoice & install — a signed installer on the specialist's Mac, the setup wizard, and the demo dataset to practice on.