PULSE for Education

Guides

Short, printable guides for the people setting up PULSE in a district. For free reading on special education staffing and workload, see Free resources.

• Getting started with PULSE

  From a signed agreement to your first look at your own data: what happens, who does each part, and roughly when. Most districts see their first look within the first two weeks.

• For your technology director

  Which exports PULSE needs, what formats it reads, how to upload them, what PULSE does with each file, and who can see what once it is in.

• Upload your files

  Where each kind of file goes in PULSE, and what happens to it.

• Invite your staff

  Invite people from your staff roster or from a list, send in waves, see whether each invitation arrived, and send again when one did not.

• Your data agreement

  Which agreement PULSE signs with your district, how state addenda work, who else handles your data, and how long PULSE keeps it.

• Funding PULSE

  PULSE helps student services leaders plan staffing from students’ IEPs, manage caseloads and service minutes, and keep provider workloads sustainable. Districts can fund PULSE through the sources below, often combining more than one.

• Your first schedule upload

  What a district administrator sees at each step of a first schedule upload, and what to do when a file is turned away.

• Extended school year evidence

  How PULSE gathers regression and recoupment evidence in about two minutes a probe, so IEP teams decide extended school year services on the evidence.