A trellis is the set of strategies, behaviors, and competencies that define how you support your students. Trellis ships with thoughtful defaults. You customize them for your content area, your class, or any individual student — in minutes, from a single sidebar.
What You Build
Everything in "Build Your Trellis" falls into one of three categories. Each serves a different moment in the classroom. All three live in the same place.
Open the sidebar from the classroom view and you're in your trellis editor. Three tabs — Interventions, Behaviors, Competencies — each with a simple list and an add field. Name an intervention, hit add, and it's immediately available in every participation window for that class or student. No settings pages. No admin portal for teachers to navigate.
Trellis is designed to be used during instruction. Every design decision in the sidebar — including what's not there — is made to protect that.
How Trellises Layer
Trellises stack from the broadest scope to the most specific. Student-level interventions are additional — they never replace the class or district defaults.
The Behaviors tab in every student's participation window is where you record what you observe — not just academic performance, but engagement, effort, and behavior patterns. Behaviors are labeled as either pro-learning or anti-learning, and both matter for a complete picture.
Logging a positive behavior for a student who's usually flagged for negatives is just as important as the reverse. The full picture is what makes the data useful.
Competencies are the observable skills that correspond to each color on the assessment scale. When you tap Orange, your Orange competencies appear. When you tap Green, your Green ones do. Trellis ships with a default set. You can build different competency sets for different classes — because what "meets standard" looks like in math is not what it looks like in ELA.
A math teacher might set Yellow to "applies formula with errors" and "needs step-by-step prompting." An ELA teacher might set Yellow to "emerging understanding of text structure" and "retells with partial accuracy." Same scale. Different lenses.
Ownership & Permissions
Trellis gives teachers full control over their own trellises. School and district subscriptions extend that control upward — without taking it away from teachers.
See It in Action
A demo walks through building interventions, linking them to a class, and watching them appear in the participation window during a simulated lesson.