Director of Software Solutions Ben Dederich
Rally Supports Group Interventions for Targeted Student Success
Developed by Education Analytics in collaboration with the South Carolina Department of Education and CORE Districts, the Rally Analytics Platform provides actionable academic and well-being data for teachers and administrators to better understand and support students. By combining data from multiple district systems into one intuitive platform, Rally, known as “Teacher Navigator” in South Carolina, helps educators reduce time spent navigating spreadsheets and instead, focus on what matters most—supporting students.
This year, districts across South Carolina began using Rally’s new Groups & Interventions feature, giving administrators and staff a streamlined way to organize, track, and strengthen their supplemental student support programs.
Why Group Interventions?
Interventionists and program coordinators already have access to many data sources, but too often they need to manually combine information for instructional planning. This results in a heavy management burden, especially for districts trying to coordinate small-group supports under a Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) framework.
Rally bridges the gap between data access and data action. With Groups & Interventions, schools can:
- Identify students who may need supplemental support (Tier 2)
- Create intervention groups such as after-school tutoring or small pull-out sessions
- Assign staff to groups and view the entire group as a classroom as well as an individual student’s profile
- Log updates and intervention notes in one centralized system
How Laurens County Implements Rally
Before Rally, each update for Laurens County School District 55 required juggling shared files, emails, and manual data entry. Today, intervention staff and administrators can manage their groups directly in Rally—saving time and improving accuracy.
Wendy Burgess, executive director of Teaching and Learning at Laurens County School District 55, described the shift:
“Laurens School District 55 is taking a forward-thinking approach to student support by integrating the Rally Teacher Navigator tool—one of the Education Analytics resources provided statewide by the South Carolina Department of Education.”
She continued: “With Teacher Navigator, educators can easily identify students in need of intervention and streamline their response. The tool’s Group feature is especially powerful: teachers can quickly group students based on shared needs, view essential academic and behavioral indicators at a glance, and monitor progress over time. Each group also includes a dedicated space for maintaining notes and documentation, giving educators a centralized hub for recording intervention strategies, observations, and outcomes.”
Teacher Navigator gives our educators the clarity and confidence they need to act quickly. It brings student data, group insights, and documentation together in one place, making our intervention process more intentional and more effective for every learner.
By using tools like Teacher Navigator, Laurens County School District 55 is strengthening its intervention process and ensuring students receive timely, targeted support. Interventionists no longer just see which students need help—they can plan, organize, and monitor the supports provided to those students in real time.
Designed for Tier 2 Supports
Rally’s Groups & Interventions feature is designed to meet the needs of Tier 2 interventions within MTSS. These are targeted, small-group supports provided to students who need more than core classroom instruction but who do not yet require highly individualized (Tier 3) interventions.
In Laurens 55, intervention staff are using this feature to track early literacy skill progression, math fact fluency, and additional targeted interventions. Each assigned staff member can quickly view relevant student data — assessment history, attendance, grades — and record notes after each session, ensuring continuity across staff and programs.
From Data to Strategy
Rally also connects educators with the Strategy Clearinghouse, a curated library of research-backed instructional practices developed in partnership with Marzano Research. Staff can filter strategies by grade, subject, and need, giving them access to evidence-based approaches to use with their intervention groups.
This integration helps districts organize groups and align interventions with practices proven to support student success.
Built on a Strong Foundation
Groups & Interventions builds on Rally’s broader platform, which offers:
- Comprehensive displays of student data for classroom educators and district leaders
- Assessment histories (summative, interim, and screeners)
- Student information system data including attendance, behavior, and grades
- Free well-being survey results on student mental health and school climate
- Continuously updating predictions of end-of-year assessment results
Rally is designed to be intuitive and to integrate seamlessly with district data systems through the Ed-Fi data standard. Automatic role-based security ensures that staff only see the data appropriate to their role.
Early Days and Future Growth
Because Groups & Interventions launched in April 2025, usage is still early. District leaders expect greater impact as they enter the school year with groups already established in Rally.
Future enhancements will focus on:
- More robust student identification filters, drawing on multiple assessments and attendance data
- Built-in progress monitoring graphs to track student growth over time
- Streamlined Tier 3 support, enabling staff to log individual interventions directly on a student’s profile
These updates will strengthen Rally’s role as a platform that not only highlights student needs but also helps schools respond in proactive, organized ways.
Looking Ahead
Laurens County School District 55 early adoption of Groups & Interventions emphasizes how Rally can simplify intervention planning and reduce the burden on staff while ensuring students get the supports they need.
As Rally evolves, our goal is to help educators not only understand their students’ needs but the supports that make the most difference.
