ACHIEVE has been recognized by the Iowa Department of Education at two national conferences and will be featured again at the 2025 OSEP Leadership Conference.

In the first phase of ACHIEVE, Triskelle developed the nation’s first fully comprehensive, web-based Special Education data system. ACHIEVE supports the entire learner journey—from birth through age 21—by managing the entire IFSP and IEP process, and enabling providers and educators to track progress across everything from child find and referrals to evaluations, eligibility, plan development, behaviortracking, messaging, dashboards, surveys, and flexible reporting tools.  Launched in May 2022, ACHIEVE now supports over 80,000 learners and is used by more than 18,000 educators, providers, and administrators across Iowa.  There have been over 250,000 IEPs and 12,500 created through ACHIEVE, and more importantly, the system has helped over 70,000 learners return to general education.

In early 2025, Triskelle released the Family Portal – an extension to Phase One that gives families online access to important documents, meeting schedules, and real-time progress updates for the first time.  As of July, 2025, there were already over 9,000 families using the portal.

Phase Two, launched in 2024 and 2025, expanded the system to include embedded general supervision capabilities. It includes compliance workflows (focused monitoring, self-reviews, corrective actions), dispute resolution (mediation, due process, complaints), and equity tracking tools such as CEIS and significant disproportionality reporting. It also supports data for state performance planning, annual reporting, and robust interactive dashboards.  Most importantly, this data is all interconnected, allowing cross-area dashboards and reporting.

To learn more about our work on ACHIEVE, please follow the “Iowa Case Study”.