Background
Amber Balcerak is a school psychologist in Indiana with 14 years of experience. She covers one district building plus all private school evaluations, which puts her across seven buildings in several cities, completing about 50 evaluations per year. She is a very fast report writer, completing a full report in about three hours, and her district is well-staffed such that she feels her caseload is manageable. The challenge for Amber was the mental drain of tailoring each report to a new writing style.
Problem
Amber serves a community where many families need reports written at a more accessible reading level. Parents who weren't at the eligibility meeting may be reading the report on their own or sharing it with a family member who needs to understand the findings without any context. A psychoeducational report full of clinical terminology and standardized scores doesn't serve her families well.
Amber cares about making her reports readable. But integrating results from many tests and then translating the full picture into clear, accessible language for every section is mentally draining work. With 50 evaluations a year, it's not her schedule that's depleted. It's her mental energy. Energy she'd rather give to her students, her MTSS teams, and the consultation work that fills the rest of her day.
Solution
"It does a really good job explaining results without me having to sit there and think, okay, how do I want to word this in parent-friendly language so they understand? Plus, it analyzes it accurately."
SageReport can be tailored to any reading level so families can follow along. It takes a mountain of clinical data, analyzes it accurately, and explains it clearly, relating cognitive, academic, and adaptive results in language that doesn't require a clinical background to understand. Amber still reads every section and makes her own edits. But the mental work of finding the right words at the right reading level for every family is no longer on her.
That energy goes back to her students and team now.
Results
"It's made report writing less daunting for sure. And saves time, so I'm less stressed."
Report writing no longer drains the mental energy she needs for everything else. Amber can now show up to her buildings, her meetings, and her students with more to give.
"I'm very thankful to have SageReport."