True Progress
Our aim is simple: to be the most trusted partner to independent schools committed to true progress for every student.
About True Progress →- What is the True Progress student success system?
- What is the True Progress Screener assessment?
- What is the True Progress Diagnostic assessment?
- What is the True Progress Inventory assessment?
- Do you have a checklist of things to do before we start testing?
- Is there a video for younger students to watch to get ready for the test experience?
- Can you give me an overview of how I can use True Progress data to improve learning?
Know Every Student
Every student has a way forward. True Progress helps educators find it.
True Progress helps K-12 schools identify each student's learning needs, turn assessment data into instructional action, and build a schoolwide system that sustains measurable success.
TRUE PROGRESS BRIEFINGS
STUDENT PROGRESS
False Progress vs. True Progress
Why activity, accommodation, higher scores, and completed work do not always mean a student is becoming more capable — and how schools can tell the difference.
Read briefingNEURODIVERSITY
The Rising Wave of Neurocomplexity
More students learn differently than the old model was built for. Independent schools need a schoolwide model that knows every student deeply — and moves each one forward.
THE CHANGING FIELD
The exception is now the everyday.
More students are learning differently.
SCHOOL SYSTEMS
Building a Schoolwide Student Success Model
What changes when assessment, teaching, intervention, faculty development, and leadership begin working as one coherent system.
STUDENT PROGRESS
True progress is real growth.
Schools are full of evidence that looks like progress. Work gets completed. Scores rise. Students participate, comply, and move through the curriculum.
But activity is not the same as learning. Support can help a student finish today’s task without developing the capacity to succeed tomorrow.
True progress changes what a student can do independently, retain over time, and transfer to new situations.
STUDENT SUCCESS SYSTEM
Progress doesn’t happen by chance.
It happens by design.
The Student Success System brings together five connected drivers. Each addresses a different part of the work. Together, they create the conditions for every student to move forward.
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Visibility
Make every student visible through evidence—not assumption.
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Focused Curriculum
Prioritize the knowledge and skills that matter most.
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Instruction
Deliver precise teaching that meets every student where they are.
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Meaningful Data
Measure learning in ways educators can confidently act upon.
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Workflows
Turn insight into coordinated action across the entire school.
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Five connected drivers. One Student Success System.
THE PILOT
Begin with Visibility.
A three-month pilot introduces your school to the Student Success System by putting its first driver in place.
A 25-minute assessment fits inside a normal class period. Within a day, you are looking at your own children in your own data. Over the weeks that follow, screening, diagnostics, and collaborative review reveal where students are thriving, where progress is slowing, and what the school may need to do differently.
One grade, one division, or the whole school—you choose the scale.
At the end of three months, you have more than assessment results. You have a needs assessment for the school—and a clear starting point for the other four drivers: curriculum, instructum, meaningful data, and workflows.
THE EVIDENCE
When students are seen and their needs are met, learning accelerates.
Decades of research show the impact of formative teaching, targeted tutoring, small-group instruction, and early identification followed by timely intervention.
Formative teaching
Up to an extra year of learning.
High-impact tutoring
3 to 15 months of additional learning in a single year.
Small-group instruction
4 to 6 months of additional progress in literacy and math.
Early identification and intervention
3 to 5 extra months of progress — gaps caught before they widen.
INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS
Built from the ground up for independent schools.
Schools like yours have what this work needs — years-long relationships, the authority to act quickly, classes small enough to know every child, and the freedom to design.
The conditions for student success already exist in your building. What's been missing is the system that puts them to work.
WORKING TOGETHER
You'll build your own system. We'll help you build it well.
True Progress gives you the assessments and technology. But what changes a school is the system your leadership builds around them—your decisions, your workflows, your language, and your rhythms.
We help you design that system, train your leaders to lead it, and strengthen it across the year with practical frameworks, strategy meetings, and what we have learned from more than one hundred independent schools.
When your division head says this data means we're going to change how we group students, that carries weight we can't manufacture from a Zoom window.
FROM: WHAT IT'S LIKE TO WORK WITH TRUE PROGRESS
OUR FIRM
Developed through sustained work with independent schools.
True Progress grew from years of working alongside educators and school leaders who were determined to understand every student more clearly and respond more effectively.
That work shaped a conviction: every school should be able to know whether each student is moving forward—and know what to do when progress slows.
Today, we continue that work with independent schools, helping make deep knowledge of students and visible progress part of everyday school practice.
THE NEXT MODEL OF STUDENT SUCCESS
The future belongs to schools that know every student.
As more students learn differently, independent schools need educators who can see each learner clearly, exercise strong judgment, and act together around student progress.
That is how every student finds a way forward.
KNOW EVERY STUDENT.
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