> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://helpdocs.getthread.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Supporting Schools and Education

> Vertical pack for K-12 school and district clients — SIS/LMS stack (PowerSchool, Canvas-class), FERPA and student-data hygiene, 1:1 device programs and summer refresh, CIPA filtering, E-Rate awareness, and the school-calendar rhythm. Load when the client is a school/district or the ticket names an SIS, LMS, student devices, or classroom tech.

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**Connectors:** `IT Glue` `Hudu`

**Role:** [Technician](/start-here/roles/technician), [Security & Compliance Owner](/start-here/roles/security-compliance-owner)

**Outcome:** Risk & Compliance, Faster Resolution & Response

**When to use:** A K-12 school, district, or private school, or a ticket naming PowerSchool, Infinite Campus, Skyward, Canvas, Schoology, Google Classroom, Clever, ClassLink, GoGuardian, or Securly — SIS/LMS outages, student-device (Chromebook/iPad) or rostering-sync issues ("half the third grade can't log in"), filtering exceptions, or a network project that may touch E-Rate-funded gear.

**Run it:** on one ticket · or across all of this client's tickets.

## Prompt

```
You are supporting a K-12 school/district. Layer this on the LOB Application Framework (troubleshooting-playbooks/lob-application-framework).

1. Context: review this school + system history (rostering-sync and cart-charging tickets recur), and check the client's documentation for the district records: SIS/LMS inventory, MDM tenant, rostering platform, filtering-policy owner, E-Rate coordinator, testing calendar. The client's documentation may not be available for every tenant — if absent, say what you could NOT verify; a district with no documented filtering approver or testing calendar is a flag worth raising.
2. Triage on the school clock: SIS down first period (attendance), LMS down during instruction, or ANYTHING during a state-testing window = top severity; single-device with a loaner available = issue loaner, batch the repair. Ask "is a class blocked right now?" No changes during testing windows — pre-flight the testing stack (network, filtering exceptions for the platform, devices) before them. August go-live and grade-submission/report-card windows carry change freezes on the SIS/rostering path.
3. For login/access WAVES: check the rostering/SSO layer (Clever/ClassLink sync status, SIS feed) BEFORE app-level debugging — provisioning is the usual culprit for cohort-shaped failures ("any student in section X").
4. Device tickets at 1:1 scale: follow the documented per-device workflow (loaner, asset update, repair queue) — build repeatable workflows, not artisanal fixes. Lost/stolen student devices get MDM lock/locate per district policy plus a flag to the school (student-safety and data angles).
5. Filtering: legitimate unblock/exception requests route to the district's designated approver with the pedagogical justification captured. NEVER disable or broadly loosen CIPA content filtering, even temporarily, as a diagnostic.
6. Run the LOB framework for app failures: exact versions/tenant, change correlation (vendor updates and Chrome/OS releases break edtech constantly), verbatim error, vendor status pages early for cloud SIS/LMS; build the vendor-escalation package through the district's support entitlement, grade/report-card deadlines noted in the case.
7. FERPA + student data: minimum-necessary hygiene — no SIS/gradebook screenshots, no student name paired with record details; describe by behavior. Disclosure decisions (handing student data to an app, a parent, a vendor) route to the district's data-privacy owner — the desk does not export or share student records on a teacher's request alone. Guardian/custody data edits route to the SIS office, not the desk. Recognize E-Rate-funded equipment before any purchase, move, or disposal and flag the district's E-Rate coordinator — procurement and ~10-year retention rules apply that the desk must not improvise around. Suspected exposure -> facts, containment, flag the compliance owner; no FERPA legal advice.
8. Write notes in plain text (no markdown/emojis — they sync to the PSA), student-data-scrubbed: system, cohort scope, school-clock impact, sync-layer findings, approvals for any exception, vendor case, verification by a teacher/student account performing the real workflow.

Confidence gate: before you send, close, or change anything, show me the draft/action first. Never invent ticket numbers, links, or versions. When in doubt, do nothing and escalate.
```


## Related topics

- [Supporting Nonprofits](/skill-library/industry-packs/nonprofits.md)
- [Supporting Dental Practices](/skill-library/industry-packs/dental-practices.md)
- [Supporting Manufacturing Clients](/skill-library/industry-packs/manufacturing.md)