District expands LinkIt data and intervention manager to centralize student data and MTSS plans
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District specialist Josh Light described LinkIt as a districtwide data warehouse and intervention manager that will hold longitudinal academic and social‑emotional data, templates for tiered interventions and assessment tools. The district is in its second year of subscription and plans staff trainings in September–November.
The Unionville‑Chadds Ford School District is expanding its use of LinkIt as a centralized data warehouse and intervention‑management tool to support the district’s MTSS work, district staff told the Curriculum, Instruction & Technology committee in September.
Josh Light, the district area specialist leading the rollout, described LinkIt as a place to store longitudinal assessment, benchmark and attendance data, to build common assessments and to create and track intervention documents such as a Tier‑1 checklist, a request for assistance form and a uniform intervention plan.
"LinkIt gives us a central place for that to go," Light said. "It is highly customizable...it gives us uniformity across the buildings that lets us have a look into the health of our Tier‑1 grammar like we really haven't had before." (quote lightly edited for clarity per transcript.)
Light said the district is in its second year of subscribing to LinkIt and has added the intervention‑manager module more recently. He described a phased rollout and training plan: a Tier‑1 checklist training on September 15, an intervention‑plan meeting on September 30, professional‑staff training on October 6 and a later session to train MTSS core teams in November.
Light showed examples of LinkIt features: a student hub that aggregates attendance, benchmark and state test scores; an assessment builder for digitizing paper diagnostics; and a performance‑criteria tool that can weight multiple assessments to create tiering lists for intervention decisions. He said the tool supports collaborative, time‑stamped documentation and family‑communication touch points within intervention plans.
Board members asked about student privacy and data security. Light said the district worked with technology staff (Mr. Webb and Ms. D'Orazio were named in the discussion) to vet LinkIt’s security and to limit access to those who need it. "We really prioritize making sure that, a, it's super secure, and b, that only the people who really need access to that kid's information have that access," he said.
Administrators said LinkIt’s longitudinal data will help identify precursors to later achievement gaps (for example, number sense as an algebra‑readiness predictor) and will let staff reuse intervention documents if a student moves between buildings.
Light and other administrators said they are continuing to customize district templates inside LinkIt and to train teacher and specialist teams so the system is used consistently K–12. They also said the district initially subscribed just to data warehousing and added intervention manager later for strategic rollout; costs vary by modules and subscription years but no specific dollar amounts were presented at the meeting.
The committee did not take any formal action; the presentation was informational and staff requested continued support for training and implementation.
