More detailed documentation, without adding to your teachers’ day.
Socrait is the voice-powered class companion that creates documentation directly from the teacher’s voice in a classroom and reduces a teacher’s follow-up workload.
Socrait listens while teachers teach, collects what they say about each student, and turns it into the behavior data, parent communication, and classroom documentation that Illinois’s MTSS process, your chronic-absence review, and your special education timelines already lean on.
Equitable student support starts with consistent, accurate data. Socrait provides the means to create a positive classroom environment without adding more work to a teacher’s day. Funded through the Illinois streams your district already manages.
All without recording.
Illinois’s compliance stack
...and the paperwork behind it
Illinois mandates require classroom evidence from teachers, on top of their teaching duties.
Each obligation in that stack ends up in the same place: on your teachers. And none of
them are hard because of the form or the deadline. They're hard because of what has to go inside: dated,
specific, teacher-observed evidence of what happened in the room. That evidence is what turns a record into
something defensible, an intervention plan into something usable, and a parent conversation into something
grounded in fact instead of recollection.
The problem is where that evidence starts, and how long it stays there. It begins in your teacher's head. It
waits for a free moment to get written down, and the school day is built to never offer one. So the
documentation comes out incomplete, inconsistent, or missing. Socrait builds the layer Illinois already assumes
exists: the one between what happened in class and the documentation that's supposed to capture it.
Tiered support that runs on classroom evidence.
The Illinois MTSS Network defines MTSS as a systemic, prevention-focused, data-informed framework for all learners, and ISBE’s RTI/MTSS guidance ties intervention data directly to decision making, including the SLD eligibility process. A problem-solving team needs more than impressions. It needs specific classroom examples, trends over time, and intervention history.
- Behavior, praise, and redirection patterns for Tier 1 review
- Intervention notes and progress evidence for Tiers 2 and 3
- Trends a problem-solving team can actually use
- Records ready to feed the SIS and MTSS workflow your district already runs
A special education evaluation clock that punishes a thin record.
Illinois gives districts 60 school days from the date of written parental consent to complete a full and individual evaluation and determine eligibility. Progress toward IEP goals must be reported to families, and Illinois behavior guidance for students with disabilities emphasizes measurable change, ongoing monitoring, and documentation through tools such as FBAs and BIPs. Socrait does not replace your IEP system. It gives the team a clearer factual record before FBA discussions, BIP reviews, and eligibility conversations.
- Dated behavior history before FBA and BIP work
- Classroom-specific observations that make IEP progress reports actually describe a student
- Family-ready language for the communication these timelines require
- A cleaner record feeding the documentation your IEP platform expects
The state measures your schools on data your teachers generate.
Illinois requires every school to participate in a learning-conditions survey each year through the 5Essentials. This survey outcome feeds the state accountability system: climate-survey participation is part of how Illinois designates schools. The early signals behind the data that gets reported in the annual survey– a missed routine, a disengaged student, a behavior pattern, usually live in a teacher’s memory until the day is over.
- Behavior and participation notes that ground a chronic-absence response
- Classroom context for the climate work your accountability system tracks
- Cleaner source data feeding your improvement plan
- Attendance and engagement signals preserved before they harden into a pattern
How Socrait fits seamlessly between Illinois classrooms and communication
Socrait listens to the teacher, not the students, and turns everyday narration into usable documentation. There is no audio recording and no new workflow to learn.
Press Stream when class starts.
The teacher activates Socrait manually. It listens only when they choose to start it, and they can stop at any time.
They teach like they always teach.
As the teacher narrates the room — a redirection, a win, a check-in, a note to follow up with a parent — Socrait seamlessly collects it in the background. No audio is stored, and student names are anonymized before any data reaches an AI model.
After class, the documentation is waiting.
Dated, organized, and ready for review and editing before anything is used or shared.
Your SIS, your IEP system, and your PBIS platform don't go away. Socrait feeds them the consistent, ground-level data they've been starving for without adding another data-entry job to your teachers' week.
What Socrait produces:
- Praises and warnings daily student tally
- MTSS tier 1 and PBIS-ready classroom observations
- Parent-communication drafts
- Class summaries, assignment changes, and reminders
- Student profiles with behavior tracking and summaries for context
- Behavior tracking over time with custom messages
- Engagement, participation, and attendance signals
Illinois funding streams purchase Socrait.
We’ve mapped Socrait to the live Illinois funding streams district leaders already manage. This is meant as a starting point for your business official or federal programs director, not as legal or budgetary advice.
Title IV-A — Student Support and Academic Enrichment
BEST FITTitle IV-A allowable uses include school climate, PBIS implementation, reducing exclusionary discipline, family engagement, and effective use of technology. In Illinois, Title IV-A lists PBIS, supportive discipline, counseling, and trauma-informed classroom management among safe-and-healthy activities. Socrait fits multiple categories without competing with existing buys.
IDEA Part B
SPECIAL EDUCATIONWhen Socrait supports documentation, progress monitoring, FBA/BIP preparation, and parent communication for students with IEPs, it fits within IDEA Part B’s support-of-service framing. Confirm local allowability with your special education director.
Title II-A
MPLEMENTATIONFunds activities that strengthen teacher and leader effectiveness. The natural use is professional learning and coaching around Socrait adoption.
Title I-A
TITLE I SCHOOLSParent-and-family-engagement activities and school-parent compact requirements, where Socrait strengthens the communication and documentation workflow.
Evidence-Based Funding (EBF) and General Fund
LOCAL, DISTRICT DISCRETIONA straight answer for your business official: EBF is Illinois’s general state-aid formula, not a categorical grant with mapped allowable uses. Districts can fund a tool like this from EBF or general-fund lines tied to strategic plan goals, but treat it as local discretionary spending, not a special allowable-use bucket. Lead with Title IV-A for the cleanest conversation.
Why Illinois leadership is paying attention.
ISBE’s most recent shortage reporting found thousands of unfilled teaching and support positions statewide, and the state’s own news release called vacancies a serious challenge even as the overall picture improved. Documentation drag is part of that. It shows up in turnover, in late IEP paperwork, in re-engagement plans that came too late, and in incidents that get under-documented because the teacher was already stretched thin.
Illinois’s accountability system then measures schools on exactly those outcomes: parent communication, student engagement, and the conditions for learning. Socrait doesn’t fix teacher retention. But it removes one specific, named source of the paperwork burden Illinois systems create — and does it without adding more to a teacher’s day.
Privacy and security with Socrait
- FERPA compliant. iKeepSafe certified.
- Socrait does not record. It has been trained to listen.
- No audio is stored.
- Student names are anonymized before any data goes to AI models.
- No teacher or student data is sold or shared.
- Socrait is a Public Benefit Corporation. That is our legal structure, not a slogan.
Full security and privacy documentation is available for your IT and legal review before any conversation about deployment.
What Illinois Leadership Gets
Building principals & APs
A building-level view of praise-to-warning ratios, behavior incidence types, and trends over time. Socrait reduces the paperwork burden on teachers, one of the top reasons teachers leave the profession.
MTSS and student-support leads
The classroom-level attendance and behavior record that grounds your problem-solving conversations and chronic-absence response, captured consistently instead of reconstructed after the day ends.
Special education directors
The dated, classroom-specific observations that make IEP progress reports actually describe a student, plus a real paper trail under the FBA and BIP conversations Illinois rules require. Your existing IEP system, better fed.
Business officials and federal programs directors
Socrait fits multiple live Illinois and federal funding streams as a documented, auditable use case. Detailed documentation that comes directly from the classroom, without adding to teacher workload.
Your teachers
A way to document behavior, praises, warnings, and classroom experiences without losing instructional time. A safety net, a trusted assistant, and a reason they don’t have to stay late.
What an Illinois teacher and union leader said about Socrait.
“Socrait takes behavior tracking off your mind. Socrait listens while you teach and collects it for you, bias-free. Having that bias-free data from Socrait to share with admin and parents—just the facts, just the tallies—takes away any chance for someone to say, “That’s just your feelings” or “That’s just your emotions.”
See it in your district.
Bring your MTSS or PBIS lead, your special education director, your business official or federal programs director, a building principal, and one teacher you trust. We’ll run a live classroom demo, show you what ends up in the dashboard, walk through the Illinois funding map for your use case, and answer your IT director’s questions before they ask.
FAQ
No. PBIS and SEL integration are statewide priorities and supports, not universal mandates. What Illinois does require includes chronic-absence policies and data review, annual participation in a learning-conditions survey, and the use of RTI/MTSS in the SLD eligibility process.
No. Those remain your official systems of record. Socrait improves the upstream classroom documentation they depend on.
EBF is Illinois’s general state-aid formula. Districts can choose to spend general or EBF dollars on a tool like this, but it is not a categorical allowable-use stream. Title IV-A is the cleaner funding conversation.
Districts already committed to MTSS, schoolwide PBIS, and centralized student support workflows.