Pilot enrollment is open for 2026–27.
Partner schools and districts get reduced pricing, dedicated implementation support, and a written case study from the cohort that shapes the product's first round of evidence.
Be the school we write about.
We're partnering with a small number of schools and districts for the 2026–27 pilot cohort. Pilot partners get reduced pricing, dedicated implementation support, and a written case study they can share internally or with us.
Learning outcomes, teacher workflow, and whether students come back.
Implementation. Roster import, teacher onboarding, timeline from signed contract to classroom use — with honest notes on friction points.
Growth data. Pre/post assessment scores, practice minutes, items in the collection, and skill coverage by domain and grade band.
Teacher experience. What teachers actually used, how dashboards fit their workflow, and what they stopped doing once Growing Standard was in place.
Student engagement. Completion rates, streaks, time-on-task, and feedback from students about the potato companion and game loop.
Equity lens.Results disaggregated by grade, performance band, and subgroup — where the product closed gaps, and where it didn't.
ROI math. Cost per student, time saved on planning and data collection, and comparison to the tools being replaced or supplemented.
Three outcomes the pilot cohort will test.
Voluntary practice. The potato companion and gear collection are built to pull students into practice outside assigned minutes. Pilots will measure whether weekend and free-time sessions actually materialize.
Teacher workflow shifts. Assessment + practice data is surfaced in one place so exit tickets and reteach lists can come from the same source. Pilots will measure how much separate-document work teachers stop doing.
Return visits over time. The customization loop — unlocking hats, pets, and accessories — is designed to bring students back across weeks and breaks, not just during class. Pilots will measure retention curves and session cadence.
Two product features are worth naming separately because they shape procurement conversations: built-in rush detection (Wise & Kong, 2005) flags students who guess rather than think, and a standards crosswalk across multiple state frameworks shortens the "does this align?" review. Both are shipping today; neither is a pilot-observed effect.
Growing Standard has not yet completed a school or district pilot. Everything above describes what the product is built to do and what we'll measure. Formal case studies with effect sizes will publish here as pilots complete.
The design rests on 100+ peer-reviewed citations across thirteen research lineages.
Adaptive assessment, item science, Science of Reading, passage and text complexity, productive failure and feedback, spaced practice, growth mindset (with the conservative reframe), rush detection, self-determination theory, CRA virtual manipulatives, math anxiety and fluency, game-based learning, and early predictors — each feature traces back to a specific study, not a product-tour talking point.
Join the cohort we'll write about.
Pilot partners get reduced pricing, dedicated implementation support, and the first written case studies under Growing Standard's name.