Southwest Plains Regional Service Center

What Southwest Plains Regional Service Center does

Southwest Plains Regional Service Center (SWPRSC) is a private, for-profit regional educational service organization founded in 1989 and headquartered in Sublette, Kansas. It provides professional learning, consulting, and data tools to K-12 public school districts, educators, and administrators across western Kansas, with a council-based go-to-market model that delivers services through Superintendents, Admin, Principals, and Counselors Councils as well as direct consultant engagement. Its product portfolio spans eWalkThrough® (a registered-trademark classroom observation and instructional coaching platform), LETRS literacy training delivered as an authorized provider for LexiaLearning, Kokopelli U book studies (offering college credit or PDC points), KansaSTAR school improvement planning, New Teacher Bootcamps, the Carl Perkins Consortium for CTE, Western Kansas Careers Showcases, and add-on modules such as How's School Going? and GroweLab instructional coaching.

The organization makes money primarily through professional development registration fees paid by member school districts and educators for workshops, cohort-based training, and on-site consulting. Distribution is sales-led and regional, with services delivered in person across western Kansas and via virtual sessions; marketing relies on the swprsc.org website, social media (Facebook, Twitter/X, YouTube, Instagram), email newsletters, council meetings, and partner-hosted conferences. The center is a strategic conduit for Kansas State Department of Education initiatives, including KESA accreditation, dyslexia training, Science of Reading implementation, and the Bell-to-Bell Cell Phone Ban rollout for the 26-27 school year. Approximately 15 staff — including a CEO/Executive Director (Kim Mauk), Education Consultants, an HR Manager, Client Services Manager, Marketing Director, and business office support — execute operations; the team collaborates with NKESC, Fort Hays State University, KASB, USA-Kansas, and ESSDACK to extend reach.

The underlying technology is conventional web-based data tooling (eWalkThrough®, How's School Going, KansaSTAR) rather than AI-native infrastructure, and there is no public pricing disclosure. Revenue is not publicly reported, and ownership remains independent with no outside capital, parent company, or M&A activity in the available record.

Name

Southwest Plains Regional Service Center

Legal name

Southwest Plains Regional Service Center

Website

https://swprsc.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1989

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Southwest Plains Regional Service Center is a private Kansas-based educational service organization delivering professional learning, consulting, and data tools (including eWalkThrough® and LETRS literacy training) to western Kansas K-12 school districts and educators through a council-based model.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

K-12 Education Professional Development Services

NAICS

Educational Support Services (611710), Educational Support Services (61171)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Regional Education Service Agencies (ESAs/BOCES/Intermediate Units) (EDADABAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

K–12 Core Curriculum Small-Group Tutoring Centers (Math/ELA/Science/Social Studies) (EDANAHAA), Alternative Education & Dropout Prevention / Re-Engagement Programs (EDANAJAF)

Keywords

• K-12 professional development
• Educator training services
• Instructional coaching tools
• Literacy professional learning
• School improvement consulting

Headquarters

HQ city

Sublette

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Professional Development Registration Fees: SWPRSC generates revenue through registration fees for workshops, training sessions, and professional development courses offered to member districts and educators.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

Southwest Plains Regional Service Center (SWPRSC) is a regional educational services organization that delivers professional learning, consulting, and data tools to K-12 school districts in western Kansas. Its offerings include LETRS literacy training, KESA school improvement support, eWalkThrough® classroom observation tools, Kokopelli U book studies, New Teacher Bootcamps, Carl Perkins Consortium CTE support, Western Kansas Careers Showcases, and administrator councils. Services are delivered via in-person workshops, virtual sessions, and direct consultant engagement with member districts.

Product overview

Southwest Plains Regional Service Center operates as an educational service organization offering a portfolio of professional learning programs and tools for K-12 educators. The core offerings include eWalkThrough® (classroom observation and feedback tool), LETRS Training (literacy professional development), Kokopelli U (college credit book studies), KansaSTAR (free school improvement planning tool), New Teacher Bootcamps, Carl Perkins Consortium support, Western Kansas Careers Showcases, and various Councils for administrator networking. Additional offerings include GroweLab (instructional coaching training) and How's School Going? (student tracking tool). The center provides these programs through professional development workshops, cohort-based training, and on-site consulting services to member school districts across western Kansas.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Kokopelli U: Professional learning program offering book studies for college credit and PDC points
• eWalkThrough
• How's School Going

Products and services

• eWalkThrough®

Quantifiable outcome

• Supporting Kansas schools with LETRS training across multiple cohorts for Science of Reading implementation
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered core and moderate.

• NKESC (Northwest Kansas Education Service Center)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSWPRSC collaborates with NKESC on Admin Councils and LETRS training programs, sharing consultants and resources across northwest Kansas education service centers.
• KSDE (Kansas State Department of Education)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSWPRSC serves as a conduit for KSDE-provided professional development, including dyslexia training, KESA support, and various state initiatives.
• LexiaLearningcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSWPRSC is an authorized provider of LETRS (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling) professional development for literacy instruction based on the Science of Reading.
• KASB (Kansas Association of School Boards)coreGTM or Marketing PartnerKASB partners with SWPRSC for professional development events including USA-Kansas conferences and policy/legislative updates.
• DataInsightPart (How's School Going)coreTechnology or IntegrationSWPRSC promotes and supports How's School Going platform for at-risk tracking, IPS monitoring, and student success asset tracking in member districts.
• ESSDACKmoderateStrategic or Co-development PartnerSWPRSC partners with ESSDACK for events like KindersCan, a professional development conference for PreK educators.
• Fort Hays State UniversitymoderateStrategic or Co-development PartnerFHSU partners with SWPRSC to provide performance-based programs for paras and long-term subs, including college credit opportunities.
• USA-KansascoreGTM or Marketing PartnerUSA-Kansas partners with SWPRSC and KASB for the annual USA-KS conference featuring professional development for educators.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Solution Tree: A national K-12 professional development and publishing company offering conferences, books, and on-site PD that compete with SWPRSC's workshop and book-study offerings.
• Renaissance Learning: A broad K-12 education technology provider whose assessment and practice tools overlap with the literacy/reading-instruction focus of SWPRSC's LETRS delivery and How's School Going tracking.
• Kansas State Department of Education (KSDE): State-level education agency that funds and sets policy for the mandates (KESA, dyslexia training) that SWPRSC delivers. Acts as both a partner and a competing channel for district professional development dollars.

Emerging players

• Edthena: An online classroom observation and instructional coaching platform directly comparable to SWPRSC's eWalkThrough® tool, sold to schools and districts nationally.
• TeachPoint: A K-12 classroom observation and educator evaluation platform used by districts and ESCs — overlapping technology and use case with SWPRSC's eWalkThrough® observation workflow.
• Lexia Learning: Owner of the LETRS literacy curriculum that SWPRSC delivers. Comparable as a literacy/reading-instruction provider serving schools, though operating at national scale and via curriculum rather than regional PD delivery.

Direct peers

• ESSDACK: Educational Services & Staff Development of the Central Kansas Cooperative, a Kansas ESC that partners with SWPRSC on events like KindersCan. Operates the same regional-service-center model offering PD, coaching, and consortium services to member districts.
• Northwest Kansas Education Service Center (NKESC): Another Kansas regional education service center covering a neighboring territory. NKESC is explicitly identified as a SWPRSC partner on Admin Councils and LETRS training, indicating directly overlapping services, customer base, and delivery model.
• Greenbush — Southeast Kansas Education Service Center: A larger Kansas regional ESC providing professional development, special education cooperatives, and technology services to member districts under the same ESC framework as SWPRSC.

Others

• Kansas Association of School Boards (KASB): A statewide K-12 membership organization that partners with SWPRSC on USA-KS conferences and policy updates. Adjacent ecosystem player serving the same Kansas school districts but as a membership/advocacy body rather than a PD provider.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/swplains
• YouTubeyoutube.com/c/southwestplains
• Facebookfacebook.com/swprsc
• Instagraminstagram.com/swprsc/?hl=en
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/southwest-plains-regional-svc

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles15 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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