SB 9, SB 12 & HB 1416 ARE IN EFFECT — DISTRICTS NEED COMPLIANT CONSENT SYSTEMS BEFORE THE 26-27 SCHOOL YEAR
Case Study: Dripping Springs ISD

8,700 students.
Nine campuses.
Fifteen minutes.

How one Hill Country district replaced manila folders and anxiety with a system that handles every consent program they run.

Dripping Springs ISD logo
District Dripping Springs ISD
Location Hill Country, TX
Enrollment ~8,700 students
Contact Retta Ary, Dir. of Counseling & Health Services
01
The problem

Manila folders, highlighters, and the fear factor.

Before Actionaly, every campus at Dripping Springs chased consent signatures individually.

Manila folders, highlighters, Excel sheets. Processing a single high-school grade, roughly 600 students, consumed 3–4 hours just for reconciliation.

And the stakes are high. The content that requires consent in Texas (child abuse prevention, health and wellness instruction, sensitive surveys) is the kind of thing where a mistake creates real problems. That pressure sat on top of everything.

The sensitivity of the content just increases that liability… the fear factor of what if I mess up?

Retta Ary, Director of Counseling & Health Services

On top of that, every program has its own checkpoints: 14-day parent notice periods, opt-in tracking, reminder cycles for non-respondents. All of it was manual.

In her own words

A line we kept hearing during the rollout.

“This program will save you so much time, but even more than that, it saves you the stress and anxiety.”
Retta Ary
Retta Ary Director of Counseling & Health Services, Dripping Springs ISD
02
What they run through one system

Eight consent programs.
One system.

Dripping Springs consolidated all their consent programs into Actionaly. Not just one type, but everything the district manages:

  • 01 Human Health & Wellness SB 12 + TX Education Code 28.004
  • 02 Club Permissions SB 12 requirements
  • 03 STAAR Tutoring Waivers HB 1416 group-size consent
  • 04 Child Abuse Prevention SB 9 sensitive instruction
  • 05 Measurable Results Assessment SB 12 survey consent
  • 06 Terrace Metrics Survey SB 12 survey consent
  • 07 GearUp & Grant Programs Grant-specific requirements
  • 08 Custom District Consent District-specific needs over time
03
What changed

Setup takes 15 minutes. Then it runs itself.

Now consent requests go out through email and text in the parent's language.

Parents respond on their phone, no login needed. Non-respondents get automatic reminders. Staff can look up any student's eligibility without cross-referencing anything.

Setup for a campus-wide consent cycle takes 15 minutes: load the consent text, set dates, configure two rounds of automated reminders. That's it.

I was nervous… but the support level lowered my anxiety, and now I'm an absolute believer.

Retta Ary

Dripping Springs has been using Actionaly since 2023, starting with a pilot survey consent cycle and expanding to district-wide adoption across all 9 campuses. Their feedback has directly shaped the product. The reminder scheduling system came from what Retta and her team actually needed day to day.

By the numbers

What the team measures, now.

15 min
To prep campus-wide consent, down from hours of manual work
75%+
Consistent response rates with automated workflows
Seconds
To pull reports for teachers, counselors, and campus admin
Zero
Manual reconciliation. No missed students, no tracking errors

Hear Retta tell it.

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