Welcome to our website.
Meet our dedicated team of innovators, educators, managers, consultants, designers, and school site specialists. We invite you to learn more about our products and services, our history and mission, and our proudest accomplishment of all: our people. Most of the dreamers, architects and builders of this success story have been with SI&A since inception.
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We are a collaborative corps of hard-working, straight talking, and service-driven individuals. We believe in education. We can help you, your students and their families achieve great things.
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We were founded in 2003, and have grown from our origins as the back-office facilitator for most of California’s school districts and county offices of education, into the creator of unparalleled products, most notably The Achievement Initiative, powered by Attention2Attendance® (A2A), a software solution that decreases school absenteeism by as much as 25 percent – and works 100 percent of the time.
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Before expanding outside of California, we started as a compliance company dealing with the complex and constantly changing climate of state regulations, economic recession, school funding priorities and politically shifting paradigms.
Today our signature product – The Achievement Initiative – has created a new standard. The Achievement Initiative will improve your attendance numbers, bottom line and, most important, your students’ lives.
Welcome to our website.
Meet our dedicated team of innovators, educators, managers, consultants, designers, and school site specialists. We invite you to learn more about our products and services, our history and mission, and our proudest accomplishment of all: our people. Most of the dreamers, architects and builders of this success story have been with SI&A since inception.
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We are a collaborative corps of hard-working, straight talking, and service-driven individuals. We believe in education. We can help you, your students and their families achieve great things.
​
We were founded in 2003, and have grown from our origins as the back-office facilitator for most of California’s school districts and county offices of education, into the creator of unparalleled products, most notably The Achievement Initiative, powered by Attention2Attendance® (A2A), a software solution that decreases school absenteeism by as much as 25 percent – and works 100 percent of the time.
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Before expanding outside of California, we started as a compliance company dealing with the complex and constantly changing climate of state regulations, economic recession, school funding priorities and politically shifting paradigms.
Today our signature product – The Achievement Initiative – has created a new standard. The Achievement Initiative will improve your attendance numbers, bottom line and, most important, your students’ lives.
Welcome to our website.
Meet our dedicated team of innovators, educators, managers, consultants, designers, and school site specialists. We invite you to learn more about our products and services, our history and mission, and our proudest accomplishment of all: our people. Most of the dreamers, architects and builders of this success story have been with SI&A since inception.
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We are a collaborative corps of hard-working, straight talking, and service-driven individuals. We believe in education. We can help you, your students and their families achieve great things.
​
We were founded in 2003, and have grown from our origins as the back-office facilitator for most of California’s school districts and county offices of education, into the creator of unparalleled products, most notably The Achievement Initiative, powered by Attention2Attendance® (A2A), a software solution that decreases school absenteeism by as much as 25 percent – and works 100 percent of the time.
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Before expanding outside of California, we started as a compliance company dealing with the complex and constantly changing climate of state regulations, economic recession, school funding priorities and politically shifting paradigms.
Today our signature product – The Achievement Initiative – has created a new standard. The Achievement Initiative will improve your attendance numbers, bottom line and, most important, your students’ lives.
IT Development
We don't build software for software's sake.
We are focused on outcomes.
Award-Winning Software
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"The majority of the high-performance/high-energy team behind A2A have children in school and have themselves gone through the public school system, providing them with a genuine concern and understanding of the industry they serve.
They know more about the nuances of attendance than anyone in the country—"
We are plugged-in to the needs of K-12 school districts
This is a high-performance team of attendance experts who really care. Not only is our software easy to use; we have a 100% adoption rate within the first day of going-live. (Which is unheard of!)
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Patented technology and processes
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Enhancements and updates are free
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Built on our core competencies of process, oversight and data that informs action
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We measure outcomes and we change patterns
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Clients love us because we make it easy
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Our developers are education compliance experts
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Our Data Analytics & Reporting and Service teams are second-to-none
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We sync with any student information system
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Data security is our number one priority
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We DO NOT outsource—fully managed and maintained in the USA
Software Creation, Development & Service
We pride ourselves on creating turn-key,
precedent-setting software
and backing it up with relentlessly reliable service.
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And we're the sole source to do what we do.
A short feedback loop equals continuous improvement
In our office, everyone is right down the hall: Software developers interact with our customer service team on a daily basis.
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- We nurture frequent cross-team collaboration
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Our developer-service team proximity allows us to make changes, assess the results, and quickly repeat the process
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We don't operate like a software-house
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We understand the intent behind our clients' jobs
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Focus groups and user feedback shape our product roadmap
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We're driven to help our clients get results and achieve their goals
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We're not here to just give them software
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data security
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The security and privacy of pupil data and district information is our highest priority
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We adhere to all privacy and security provisions under FERPA 20 U.S.C. 1232g as well as state education code security requirements, including one of the most stringent provisions, California Education Code Section 49073.1
Stays In the USA
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Made, managed and maintained in America
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Equipment and data housing have multiple layers of security
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All data is 3DES encrypted
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Data is encrypted both in flight and at rest
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N=1 redundant configuration data center
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FM 200 fire suppression and VESDA control
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24/7/365 secured access and server monitoring
Data Integrity
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1,700 automated data validation checkpoints are built into our process
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Three independent teams monitor each district’s system for school site activity, accuracy, constancy and anomalies to ensure issues are addressed quickly
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Our service teams provide data alerts and address most issues directly through the non-IT district contact
Agile & SCRUM Methodology
The values and principles of Agile and SCRUM match those of our organization. We are flexible and SCRUM gives us the ability to respond quickly to change.
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People over process
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Working software over comprehensive documentation
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Collaboration: Individuals and interaction
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Responding to change over following a plan
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Continuous improvement year over year requires data analysis, measurement, refinement and solutions—this is how we get results.
