Expand Student Support Without Expanding Your Staff
SparkWheel partners with schools to provide embedded Student Support Coordinators who address barriers to learning - improving attendance, building essential life skills, addressing behavior issues, and strengthening academic outcomes without adding to your staffing burden.
The Problem
Schools Are Being Asked
to Do More - With Less
District leaders are navigating increasing expectations around student outcomes, attendance, behavior, and family engagement - often without the staffing or resources to meet those demands. Counselors are overextended. Teachers are managing more than instruction. Principals are balancing urgent needs with long-term priorities.
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At the same time, many of the barriers impacting students - food insecurity, housing instability, mental health, and family challenges - exist outside the classroom but directly affect what happens inside of it. ​
These challenges aren’t new, but the scale and complexity are growing.
The Solution
A Proven, School-Embedded Support Model
SparkWheel places a dedicated Student Support Coordinator (SSC) directly inside your school. SSCs work alongside your team to identify and address non-academic barriers that impact student success - connecting students and families to the right resources, at the right time.
This is not a program layered on top of your system. SparkWheel’s services are integrated into how your school operates.
What This Means for You
& What This Looks
Like in Practice
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Increased attendance through targeted student support
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Strengthened life skills that build workforce readiness and long-term wellbeing
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Improved behavior with consistent, relationship-based intervention
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Stronger academic performance as barriers are removed
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Reduced burden on staff, allowing educators to focus on instruction
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Positive student engagement supported through strong relationships with families and caregivers
Results You Can Measure
Across SparkWheel partner schools in the 2024 – 2025 academic year:
These outcomes are driven by consistent, school-based support - not one-time interventions.
Designed to Fit Within Your System
SparkWheel’s model aligns with existing district priorities and frameworks, including:
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Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS)
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Student services and counseling structures
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Family and community engagement efforts
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SSCs coordinate with school staff, district leadership, and community partners to ensure support is targeted, efficient, and measurable - integrating with existing systems to extend capacity, not duplicate services, and reach more students with deeper support.
Expand Support Without Expanding Your Staff
Hiring additional staff is often not feasible. SparkWheel provides dedicated capacity without requiring districts to add full-time positions.
Our team becomes an extension of your school - focused specifically on removing barriers that impact learning, while strengthening your existing systems and reaching more students with deeper support.
Already Supporting Schools
Across Kansas and Missouri
SparkWheel partners with schools across urban and rural communities, adapting to the unique needs of each district.
19 Counties
61 School Sites
3,053 Caseload Students
A Collaborative Approach
We begin by understanding your district’s priorities, assets, challenges, and goals. From there, we work with you to:
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Identify schools where additional support will have the greatest impact
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Align services with your existing systems and build on what is already working
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Establish clear outcomes and measurement