For Teachers

Less documenting,
more teaching

With Trellis, MTSS Tier 1 intervention documentation takes 5 seconds during instruction instead of 30 minutes after school when memory has already faded.

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Four Pain Points Trellis Solves

No time for documentation

End-of-day MTSS logs take 30+ minutes. Memory-based entry can be inaccurate. Teachers shouldn't have to choose between documenting and having a life after school.

Trellis solution

5 seconds during instruction, zero after-school work.

Forgotten training

MTSS training teaches 40+ interventions. In the moment, under instruction, teachers revert to what they know. The training investment evaporates over time.

Trellis solution

The intervention panel appears automatically when a student needs support.

The Equity Gap

Without data, teachers can begin to unconsciously over-engage with high performers and under-serve struggling students. Bias isn't intentional, and it's invisible.

Trellis solution

The equity selector ensures that all students are given equal attention.

Incomplete documentation

MTSS coordinators need data. Administrators need compliance reports. Teachers need to get home to their families. The system is designed to fail teachers.

Trellis solution

Documentation is complete the moment the bell rings.

5 seconds to log an intervention

80+ hours saved per teacher/year

d=1.57 collective teacher efficacy

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The Real Problem

You already know what good teaching looks like. You just can't prove it.

MTSS documentation was designed to improve student outcomes, not create a second job for teachers. But end-of-day logging, after-school data entry, and compliance paperwork have made documentation feel like punishment for teaching well.

The research is clear about why: assessment tools only work when they're embedded in daily practice. But a tool that takes 30+ minutes to use after school will never be used consistently. That's not a willpower problem. It's a design problem.

"Day-to-day classroom assessment was relatively rare…considerable improvements would result from supporting teachers in developing this aspect of their practice."

Dylan Wiliam, UCL Institute of Education, 2005

Wiliam identified that teachers want to do formative assessment — they just can't sustain it when it becomes a separate task. With Trellis, documentation happens during instruction, automatically, as part of how you already work.

The Trellis Workflow

This is what 5 seconds looks like

Not 5 seconds for the easy students. 5 seconds for every student.

01

Notice a student

During instruction, you observe a student who needs support — or you want to note their level of understanding.

During instruction

02

Tap their seat

Tap the student's name on the seating chart. Trellis is always open on your device — no app switching, no unlocking.

1 second

03

Select their level

Choose from the 5-color assessment scale. Blue/Green for excelling, Yellow for approaching, Orange/Red for needing intervention.

1 second

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Intervention appears

If Orange or Red, your pre-built intervention trellis surfaces — the specific strategies from your MTSS training, right when you need them.

Automatic

05

Done. Logged. Synced.

Tap the intervention you used. Data is logged with a timestamp, saved, and synced. You're back to teaching before the class notices you looked away.

1–2 seconds

The Transformation

What teaching looks like before
and after Trellis

Without Trellis

End-of-day logs from memory — 30–45 minutes every afternoon

Forget what happened in 1st period by 7th period

MTSS training strategies don't make it into practice

Unconsciously over-document the same students

Compliance logs that don't actually inform instruction

Guilt about incomplete records — every single evening

PLC meetings where "what's the data?" means nobody knows

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Trellis

With Trellis

Documentation complete the moment each lesson ends

Accurate, timestamped data captured in the moment

Trained interventions surface automatically when students need them

Equity Selector shows who hasn't been reached — by subgroup

Data that actually shows what you did and whether it worked

Leave school when the students do — documentation is done

PLC meetings driven by real, current, classroom-level data

The 5-Color Assessment Scale

Not pass/fail.
A window into thinking.

Dylan Wiliam's research shows that binary assessment (right/wrong) doesn't tell teachers what to do next. Trellis uses a 5-level scale designed to inform your next instructional move.

1
Concern
Tier 2–3 Referral
Consistent concern; Tier 2 referral data automatically generated
→ Intervention + referral flag
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Below
Tier 1–2 Boundary
Student shows significant gaps; intervention trellis activates
→ Intervention panel opens
3
Approaching
Tier 1 — Watch
Student understands partially; needs scaffolding to reach standard
→ Check in, scaffold
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Meets
Tier 1 — On Track
Student is meeting grade-level standard with independence
→ Continue, monitor
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Exceeds
Tier 1 — Extension
Student demonstrates mastery above grade level expectations
→ Enrichment / Peer tutoring

Research Foundation · Dylan Wiliam, 2005

"In reviewing 250 studies, we found that a focus by teachers on assessment for learning — rather than assessment of learning — produced a substantial increase in student achievement."

Black & Wiliam, 1998 · "Inside the Black Box" · Phi Delta Kappan

Read the Wiliam Research Summary →

250 studies reviewed in Black & Wiliam's foundational meta-analysis

2× learning speed with effective formative assessment

5s what Trellis makes formative assessment take, in practice

"I used to spend Sunday nights catching up on logs I missed all week. With Trellis, I walk out the door at 3:15 with everything documented. My data is actually accurate now — which means my PLC conversations are actually useful."

5th Grade Teacher · Title I Elementary · Sacramento, CA

Less documenting,
more teaching

Four Pain Points Trellis Solves

You already know what good teaching looks like. You just can't prove it.

This is what 5 seconds looks like

What teaching looks like before
and after Trellis

Not pass/fail.
A window into thinking.

See Trellis in action

For Teachers

For Administrators

Less documenting,more teaching

Four Pain Points Trellis Solves

You already know what good teaching looks like. You just can't prove it.

This is what 5 seconds looks like

What teaching looks like beforeand after Trellis

Not pass/fail.A window into thinking.

See Trellis in action

For Teachers

For Administrators

Less documenting,
more teaching

What teaching looks like before
and after Trellis

Not pass/fail.
A window into thinking.