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Public Notice of Intent to Award a Direct Appointment Contract

Eugene School District 4J 200 North Monroe St, Eugene, OR 97402 purchasing@4j.lane.edu

PUBLIC POSTING DATE: July 1, 2026

AUTHORIZATION: ORS 279B.085, Eugene School District 4J Board Policy DJC-AR

PURPOSE: Board Policy DJC-AR on Class Special Procurements allows for direct appointment of contracts over $25,000 if they meet the designation of Class Special Procurement. Public notice of award is required in the same manner as provided in ORS 279B.055(4).

Public comments can be sent to purchasing@4j.lane.edu.

CONTRACT NO: #27-072

CONTRACTOR: Everyday Speech LLC

COST: $31,120.00

NEED: Eugene School District 4J Instruction desires a partner who can provide curriculum aimed specifically with students on the Autism Spectrum Disorder, and other social communication disorders.

JUSTIFICATION: Everyday Speech provides video-modeling of social communication skills, along with visuals, worksheets and interactive games from Pre-k through 12th grade. District 4J began to work with Everyday Speech as SLPs in 2019, because there were no other curriculum available to work with students with Autism Spectrum Disorder and other social communication disorders. The curriculum allows shareable video strategies with teachers and parents so that the student can generalize skills across settings.

Several years ago, Everyday Speech expanded to also include Social Skills curriculum as well, at which time District 4J piloted that side of the platform with several special education teachers. The feedback was overwhelming that using a platform that included both SLP curriculum and general social skills curriculum allowed for more generalization of skills, sharing of strategies and progress for students. At that point, District 4J expanded to provide elementary special education teachers access to this curriculum across the district.

Everyday Speech has expanded this last year to also include mindfulness curriculum and Tier 1/2 strategies allowing for SLPs and special education teachers to address a wider range of student needs.

Last spring, District 4J explored to see if there were other curriculum that addressed needs for social communication across the age ranges and also crossed disciplines (speech/language and special education) and Everyday Speech continued to fit these needs the best. SEL curriculums do address mailto:purchasing@4j.lane.edu mailto:purchasing@4j.lane.edu general mental health and social skills, but not to the depth that Everyday Speech has done, with the niche skill set of social communication skills.

CONTRACT NO: #27-081

CONTRACTOR: AspirEDU Inc

COST: $36,323.25

NEED: Eugene School District 4J Instruction desires a partner who can provide grade tracking software that can integrate with the district’s existing systems.

JUSTIFICATION: Grade Guardian software from AspirEDU Inc integrates with existing District 4J infrastructure (Canvas). Grade Guardian is a software solution that integrates with Canvas and identifies the students that are most at risk of dropping out or failing courses. It allows for easy identification of students that need the most immediate support.

CONTRACT NO: #27-084

CONTRACTOR: Committee For Children – Second Step

COST: $60,781.00

NEED: Eugene School District 4J Instruction desires a partner who can support Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) to further support students.

JUSTIFICATION: Instructional administrators and counselors held a workshop several years ago and cross-walked multiple programs with the standards and landed on Second Step. After several years of using the physical materials (only purchasing 1/ grade level at each school), two barriers to implementation were identified.

One was training/ coaching and the other was access to materials. The decision to purchase online materials was made to remove the barrier around access to materials, and also due in part to updates to the materials online that included training modules and administrator resources. Other updates were made that included an emphasis on being more culturally responsive as well, as the printed materials were becoming dated.