ParaFlowTool is built by a veteran special education teacher and the engineer who partners with him — created by SPED practitioners, for SPED practitioners.
Ted Scott-Smith has spent 20 years in special education, and he's still in the classroom. He's a mentor to other special education teachers, and he runs Ted Scott-Smith Special Education Advocacy. He built ParaFlowTool from what he lives every day as a teacher: a practical answer to the daily scramble of covering absent paras, and a clear, defensible record of who covered whom, every day.
Philip Rehberger is ParaFlowTool's technical co-founder and the engineer who builds it. Through ScopeForged, the software firm he founded in 2019, he has spent his career building multi-tenant systems for schools and regulated businesses — including payments and HIPAA-regulated healthcare data — where being correct and private isn't optional. He built ParaFlowTool to that same standard: a coordinator's schedule has to be accurate, isolated per school, and there when someone asks for it. Tenant isolation, encryption at rest, and never selling data aren't bolted on later — they're how it's built from the first line.
