Bring Your Leadership Team's Vision to Life

Step-by-step effective practices to achieve your vision of student and educator success

What is Indistar?

Indistar is a web platform that guides high-quality work by school or district Leadership Teams with built-in flexibility to set your own direction, personalized to your needs.

Indistar Framework

Get Everyone on the Same Page

Start with the basics- where are you, who are you, and who will be helping you along this journey? Indistar meets your team where you are currently and guides you through manageable steps to get you where you want to go.

What Do You Want Your School or District to Look Like?

Allow Indistar to guide you through your strategic direction (your vision, values, mission, and goals with performance measures). Add any pertinent data such as student outcomes and needs assessments. Use this information to select Effective Practices then specific indicators you wish to focus on to achieve your goals.

Own your process. Think small. 

Choosing Indistar means getting better together. District and school success is best accomplished when directed by those closest to the student. By adopting the Indistar mindset of support, teams soon discover the joy of engaging in the things that matter most- providing students with the education they deserve.

Effective Practices

Process Plus Practice

Indistar guides your team toward your goals of student achievement by adapting research-based Effective Practices.  Indistar's process becomes your everyday practice of getting better together.


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Wise Ways

Proven Research, Simplified.

No other system provides the equivalent of Indistar's Wise Ways®. Ongoing efforts and support are required to maintain measurable success. This mean truly understanding your indicators for real-life application, which only Wise Ways® can provide.

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Assess Create Monitor

Continuously Pursue Your Vision

Your environment is ever-changing, but Indistar provides stability and consistency by not ending with a new year. Continue to build from previous work, and allow Indistar to house your documented evidence of growth.

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The Recognition Your Team Deserves

Where does your staff excel? Where are your opportunities for growth? You can easily recognize strengths as well as areas needing attention with Indistar’s guided process. Harness the power of local ingenuity!

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Use the form below or contact Stephanie Benedict, Director of Client Services, directly at 217-732-6462 ext. 32 or call toll free at 1-800-759-1495.



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