Working together
A working partnership with your school
True Progress works alongside your school to build the practices that help educators know every student deeply, act on that understanding, and return to what happens next.
The Student Success System is built in stages, beginning with Visibility. Each stage has a defined purpose and scope shaped around your students, educational aims, faculty, and existing strengths.
The first year: establish Visibility
The first year focuses on establishing comprehensive, in-depth Visibility, the foundation of the Student Success System.
Visibility brings together classroom evidence, educator knowledge, student and family perspectives, assessment, and progress over time. The aim is not simply to collect more information. It is to develop a shared understanding of each student that informs educational decisions and continues to deepen throughout the year.
Faculty begin using that understanding immediately: extending learning for students who are thriving, responding to emerging difficulties, and examining whether teaching and intervention are helping.
Begin with your students and your school
We begin with the students and educational questions already in front of your school. What are faculty trying to understand? Where is a student thriving? Where has a difficulty persisted? Which students may need greater challenge? What has earlier teaching or intervention made possible?
Together, we design the Visibility implementation around your curriculum, faculty, calendar, assessment practices, and the ways your school already knows and follows students.
Establish the evidence practice
We establish how different sources of evidence contribute to understanding students and how that understanding will be used.
True Progress assessment is one part of the practice. We complete platform setup, prepare faculty, establish the assessment calendar, and clarify who reviews findings and follows up when a result raises a question.
Assessment evidence is interpreted alongside classroom work, educator observations, and student and family perspectives. We also establish shared meanings for learning levels, progress, and reporting thresholds so that faculty can discuss results consistently in the context of your students and educational expectations.
Develop a shared understanding
Working sessions use your own students and the questions already facing your faculty. We examine assessment findings alongside classroom work, observation, and what educators, students, and families know.
The purpose is not to force every source into the same conclusion. Agreement can strengthen an interpretation. Differences can expose a question worth investigating.
A result may confirm a strength, reveal an uneven profile, challenge an existing explanation, or suggest that closer inquiry is needed. The team distinguishes what the evidence establishes from what remains uncertain and decides what should happen next.
Deepen Visibility across the year
As the year progresses, the school returns to students’ learning and experience. New classroom work, assessment, student reflection, and educator observation deepen or sometimes change the school’s earlier understanding.
Faculty act on what they are learning throughout the year. They extend learning for students who are thriving, adjust teaching and challenge, investigate emerging difficulties, and connect intervention with classroom learning.
The work includes students needing intensive help, students whose needs are less apparent, and students ready for greater challenge.
Visibility becomes useful when the school can move from understanding to action and then return to what happened: What changed for the student? What remains unresolved? What should be sustained, developed, or reconsidered?
Working with your team
During Visibility implementation, True Progress works with the leaders who carry the practice across the school and the faculty and specialists who use it with students.
The school brings knowledge of its students, curriculum, culture, and educational ambitions. True Progress contributes assessment, implementation frameworks, professional learning, outside perspective, and experience working through learning questions with other schools.
Neither replaces the judgment of the other. We examine evidence together, compare possible explanations, make uncertainty explicit, and identify what further learning or experience would help resolve an open question.
The implementation plan establishes how faculty preparation, working sessions, assessment windows, and review fit within the school’s existing calendar and responsibilities.
Build the next driver from what you have learned
Once your school has established comprehensive, in-depth Visibility, we use what has been learned about students and school practice to determine which driver to strengthen next.
The remaining drivers develop other parts of the Student Success System:
- Focused Curriculum: Connecting the school’s educational aims with essential knowledge and capabilities, stronger foundations, coherent learning, and appropriate depth and challenge.
- Instruction: Developing Formative Teaching so educators adjust instruction, practice, feedback, and challenge in response to what students understand and need next.
- Meaningful Data: Developing shared meanings for evidence and progress so educators can judge whether teaching and intervention are working and decide what needs to change.
- Workflows: Establishing clear responsibilities and review points so shared understanding becomes repeatable action and the school returns to what students experience next.
The sequence is not predetermined. Students’ needs, the school’s existing strengths, and the questions emerging from Visibility determine what the school develops next.
All five drivers are included in the annual True Progress Student Success System subscription.
How the engagement is structured
| Component | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Standard subscription | Access to the True Progress assessment platform, including assessments, reporting, and ongoing platform use. |
| Visibility implementation fee | The first-year implementation of comprehensive Visibility, including assessment practice, shared interpretation, faculty preparation, and the practices used to understand and follow students across the year. |
| Ongoing Student Success System development | Professional learning, frameworks, webinars, coaching, resources, and guidance for strengthening Focused Curriculum, Instruction, Meaningful Data, and Workflows after Visibility is established. Included with the annual subscription. |
Working together for student success
The long-term value of the work is not dependence on True Progress. It is a school with stronger capacity to know its students, make thoughtful educational decisions, and learn from what happens next.
True Progress helps faculty and leaders build that capacity through assessment, professional learning, implementation design, coaching, and shared inquiry. Together, we develop practices that help understanding travel across the school, connect decisions with action, and keep every student’s learning, strengths, needs, and possibilities in view.