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Ashwina Mosakowski Ed.D

Director of Elementary Education

Upper Darby School District

What we understand as your priorities

As you oversee elementary education across the district, we believe your priorities might include:

  • Implementing science of reading and early literacy acceleration with strong Tier 1 plus targeted Tier 2.
  • Consistent MTSS practice across 9 elementary schools; support for many new/early‑career teachers.
  • Leveraging Aimsweb, NWEA/ MAP and PSSA Data without adding complexity.

How Cascades supports your priorities

  • Dashboards that connect Aimsweb literacy data, NWEA/MPA, PSSA data, teacher observations, and attendance/behavior flags into one student view, so grade‑level teams can act early.
  • Standard Tier 2 reading workflows (your interventions, your group structures) baked into the platform, so new teachers learn MTSS by doing, not by reading binders.
  • Visibility into which schools, grades, and groups are getting the right Tier 2 support and where Tier1 may need strengthening.

Key Differentiator for your function

Cascades turns your elementary MTSS framework into a consistent, science‑of‑reading‑aligned daily practice across the nine schools.

  • Combines course grades, behavior, and attendance into an early‑warning view for elementary school students, so counselors and teams can act before failures stack up.
  • Structures elementary MTSS teams’ work—who owns which students, which interventions are in play, and when to revisit cases—so it doesn’t depend on a few heroic staff.
  • Provides teachers the visibility into tiered supports/ interventions provided to their roster of kids, the ability to share class room observations and intervention related notes with MTSS team and interventionists.
  • Not let any student with corelated risks fall through the cracks. AI powered referrals to MTSS team for review and human in the loop determination.

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