1) Measure to Serve, Not to Prove

We measure only what helps us serve educators better. Each metric must help us listen more deeply, rather than self-validation.
 

2) Protect Educator Energy 

Every question we teachers, draws from the same reservoir of energy that serves their kids. We favor simple pulse checks, reflective conversations, and light observations. 
 

3) Collected Metrics Must Move Decisions 

Each metric must name the decision it informs and the threshold that triggers action. We must apply a design discipline to know when to stop measuring. 
 

4) Metrics Must Be Paired With Meaning 

Instead of proving causation, we seek contribution: What patterns emerge, for whom, and why? Metrics reveal patterns; stories reveal meaning.
 

5) Scale Deep → Out → Up

Change begins with individual educators who see value in their practice. Engage school leaders as early as possible to sustain the systems that allow change. 
 

6) Learn in Feedback Loops 

We move in feedback loops: observe, interpret, adapt. Our “Ripple Reports” replace long, static reports because progress is iterative, not declarative. 
 

7) Donors As Learning Partners  

Donors are our partners in understanding the dynamic system of serving schools. We ask for multi-year support to refine and learn how to serve deeply, together.   

8) Let Communities Own The Results    

Money can open doors; it must not set direction or define success on its terms. Our role fades by design, lasting change belongs to those who live it daily.