About ParaFlowTool

Ted Scott-Smith

Co-founder — special education teacher

Ted Scott-Smith has spent 19 years in special education in a large Bay Area school district, and he's still in the classroom, currently lead teacher of a middle school class for students with Extensive Support Needs. He's a mentor to other special education teachers, and he runs Ted Scott Smith Special Education Consulting. 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

Co-founder — technical, builds the product

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.