About

 

Student Optimized Services

In 2008 Ryle High School began their journey of utilizing the Professional Learning Community framework to develop Instructional Learning Teams (ILTs) that would collaborate together to ensure that ALL students were successful in mastering the essential learning skills developed by every ILT.  Through on-going reflection of the ILTs, the faculty determined they needed to:

  • Provide teacher autonomy to determine what to offer on a daily basis

  • Provide Student Choice in regards to where they will go during this time

  • Find a way that ALL students can have their current specific learning needs met regardless of content area.

  • Provide time for teachers to meet on a weekly basis with their ILT.

Student Optimized Services (SOS) was created in 2015 due to one school's (Ryle High School, Union, KY) desire to utilize a Flexible Period in their school day to meet the diverse learning needs of ALL students by giving teachers the ability to offer timely support for students in their own classes. Bill Martin, a science teacher at the time and the founder of SOS, used his computer programming experience to create an on-line scheduling tool to facilitate the desired outcome of the school administration. Nate Niemi, a school administrator, facilitated the development as they worked together to create the vision of the scheduling tool. 

Since its inception in 2015, implementation of the SOS has proven to help 6-12 schools across the country in the following areas: 

  • Reduce student failures

  • Improve your special education support for students

  • Empower students to “Own Their Education”

  • Increase in students taking more challenging classes

  • Improve State Accountability Scores for all demographics

  • Empower teachers to use additional time to meet the real time learning needs of their students

  • Improve Student Culture

  • Increase Social Emotional and Mental Health support

Bill and Nate have implemented the SOS system in High Schools and Middle Schools across the country. The system is designed to evolve as we learn about our customers’ needs.

We create the avenue for your work to be done the way you need to do it!