Human-Centered Data Services
What is the evidence telling us?
Reveal Opportunity Gaps
Pinpoint where students are missing the instruction, support, and learning opportunities they need to succeed.
Create Pathways to Core Learning
Determine the focus, intensity, and duration of support students need to access grade-level learning—and how to track progress.
Turn Voice Into Action
Uncover barriers through student, family, and educator experiences—and use their insights to shape decisions and strengthen learner agency.
Expand Access to Rigorous Learning
Identify what enables or limits students’ opportunities to think deeply, see themselves as capable learners, and apply their learning.
Swimming in Data. Still Searching for Answers.
Schools have more data than ever, yet teams still struggle to understand why students aren’t progressing and what to change. When academic results, classroom evidence, and student, family, and educator perspectives are examined separately, barriers can remain hidden and improvement efforts can miss what students need most. Human-Centered Data Services bring that evidence together to make the invisible visible—helping teams uncover opportunity gaps, create pathways to core learning, strengthen learner agency, and expand access to rigor, with clear priorities for meaningful action.
Explore Our Human-Centered Data Services
Reveal where opportunity gaps emerge, what may be contributing, and where focused action can make the greatest difference.
View PD OptionsCreate clear pathways to core learning with purposeful support, realistic timelines, and evidence of progress.
View PD OptionsTurn student, family, and educator experiences into priorities that strengthen agency and school improvement.
View PD OptionsUnderstand how expectations, instruction, identity, agency, and support shape access to rigorous learning.
View PD OptionsOpportunity Gap Analysis™
Schools have more data than ever, yet teams often struggle to determine what students need, why learning stalls, and where to act first. Our Opportunity Gap Analysis brings together academic data, evidence of learning, and student, family, and educator perspectives to uncover differences in access to the instruction, support, and learning experiences students need to thrive. Using research-informed lenses—including the Active View of Reading, disciplinary literacy, and algebraic reasoning and readiness—we look beneath overall scores to examine patterns across grades, student groups, and schools, explore conditions that may be limiting learning, and identify where further evidence is needed. Teams gain clear priorities for strengthening instruction, aligning support, and expanding opportunity.
The Analysis Helps Teams:
- Reveal patterns across grades, groups, and schools.
- Look beneath overall scores.
- Examine conditions influencing access and learning.
- Identify where additional evidence is needed.
- Prioritize instructional and system responses
Opportunity Gap Analysis
Reveal gaps. Focus improvement.
Human-Centered MTSS™ Blueprint
Knowing students are below proficiency does not tell schools how to refine their tiers of support to help them get there. The Human-Centered MTSS™ Blueprint helps teams strengthen core instruction, sharpen targeted support, and align intensive intervention to create clear pathways to proficiency. Using the Active View of Reading and algebraic readiness as research-informed lenses, we estimate learners’ needs, identify evidence to confirm them, and outline the instructional focus, intensity, and anticipated duration of support. Progress checks guide adjustments across tiers, helping teams determine whether support is working, when its intensity should change, and when intervention has accomplished its purpose. Students understand their goals, track their progress, and build confidence and independence as they move toward proficiency.
The Blueprint Helps Schools:
- Confirm specific learner needs.
- Define the focus of support.
- Determine intensity and anticipated duration.
- Create purposeful intervention pathways.
- Monitor progress and adjust instruction.
- Move learners toward greater independence
Human-Centered MTSS™ Blueprint
Create pathways to core learning.
Voice to Action
Schools often gather student, family, and educator feedback but struggle to turn what they hear into meaningful change. Voice to Action helps teams understand the system through the people who experience it, using the Learner Agency Tree to examine the conditions that support students’ active role in their learning. We explore whether students feel known and valued, understand their learning goals, have meaningful opportunities to make decisions, and receive the support they need to act on those decisions. By analyzing these perspectives together, we reveal strengths and barriers that academic data alone may miss. Teams gain clear priorities for action and a process for closing the feedback loop, so students, families, and educators can see how their voices shaped decisions and what is changing.
Voice to Action Helps Teams:
- Gather student, family, and educator perspectives.
- Examine belonging, clarity, voice, and agency.
- Identify strengths and barriers academic data may miss.
- Translate lived experience into clear priorities.
- Turn voice into meaningful action.
- Close the feedback loop.
Voice to Action
Listen deeply. Strengthen agency.
Making Rigor Visible
Challenging assignments and high expectations do not always translate into deep learning, and schools often struggle to see which students have access to rigorous learning and what support they need to succeed. Making Rigor Visible helps teams examine how students build foundational knowledge, deepen disciplinary understanding, and transfer learning to new situations—and how identity, agency, and support shape that journey. We bring together classroom observations, curriculum and assessment materials, student and educator perspectives, and evidence of learning to identify where expectations, instruction, and support align and where barriers persist. Teams gain clear priorities for strengthening instruction, expanding access to rigorous learning, and connecting school improvement to students’ daily experiences.
The Analysis Examines:
- Foundational learning
- Deeper disciplinary understanding
- Transfer and application
- Learner identity and agency
- Expectations and instructional design
- Access to support and rigorous learning
Making Rigor Visible
Expand access to deeper learning.
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Behind every data point is a learner with strengths, experiences, aspirations, and a story.
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