The Readiness Review: A School Self-Assessment for Early Identification & Student Support
Your building already supports students — but do you know where that support is a reliable system, and where it's one committed adult away from disappearing? Find out in one honest 30–45 minute meeting.
Every practice in your building lives somewhere on this scale
All 25 items are rated 0–3 — and the scale itself tells the story. Most schools discover they live at 1: full of committed adults doing invisible, unsustainable work.
Not in place
This rarely or never happens in our building.
Person-dependent
It happens when the right person notices. If they were out for a month, it would stop.
Emerging system
A process exists, but it's uneven — and it stalls under pressure.
Reliable & shared
Consistent no matter who's involved. New staff learn it as "how we do things here."
Five domains follow a concern's journey
From the moment an adult senses something is off, to the systems that keep support alive year after year.
Noticing
Early signals and shared language — is noticing everyone's job?
Routing
Does a concern's path depend on which adult noticed it?
Responding
Ownership, timeframes, and closing the loop with the adult who raised it.
Relational Infrastructure
Trusted adults — known and resourced, not assumed.
Sustaining
Would your approach survive the departure of its two most committed people?
One meeting. Three moves.
Score individually
Each team member rates all 25 items alone first — about 10 minutes. No conferring; honest snapshots only.
Compare as a team
Put the scores side by side. Where leadership sees a 3 and counselors see a 1, you've found your real conversation.
Leave with one priority
Interpretation bands and a next-steps page turn your profile into an action plan — one domain, one owner, one mechanism.
Disagreement is data. The gap between how leadership and front-line staff score the same item is the most valuable finding this review produces — and the reason to do it as a team, not alone at a desk.
Part of the Where Students Turn First system
Start free, diagnose for $12, implement with the toolkit — each piece stands alone, and they're built to work together.
The Prevention Paradox
Why crisis mode quietly erodes early intervention capacity — the argument that makes the case for this work to your leadership team.
The Readiness Review
The diagnostic. Find out where your identification-and-response process is reliable — and where it runs on goodwill.
The Toolkit
The 12-page implementation guide for the four working sessions that turn your lowest-scoring domain into a reliable system.
Templates Pack
Six editable Word documents — the forms, agendas, and protocols that turn your priority domain into daily practice.
Questions, answered
Who should be in the room?
Building leadership plus the people who carry student support day to day — counselors, social workers, nurses, deans, prevention coordinators, and community partners where relevant. It works best completed individually first, then compared.
Does it evaluate students or staff?
No. It scores the building's systems, never individuals. It's an educational planning tool, not a clinical or diagnostic instrument — and there's no passing grade.
What do I get, exactly?
A 10-page printable PDF: instructions and ground rules, the 0–3 rating scale, 25 items across five domains with score boxes and team-notes lines, scoring bands with interpretation guidance, and a next-steps page. Instant download, lifetime access.
Do we need the toolkit too?
They're designed as a pair — the review diagnoses, the toolkit implements — but each stands alone. Many teams start here, then pick up the toolkit once they know their lowest-scoring domain. Both are covered by a 30-day money back guarantee.
Find out where your building really stands.
Twenty-five honest questions, one team meeting, and a clear starting point — for less than the cost of a pizza at the staff meeting.
Get the Readiness Review — $12