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It takes more than doing trustworthy work to earn trust 

If no one can see it, it risks looking like it never happened

The lifeblood of every mission-based organization is stakeholder trust

Earning that trust won’t happen by accident

Five tools, used properly, make your trustworthy work visible to the world

The gap is not about effort.
It’s about visibility.

 

The bravEd frameworks help close that gap by making the benefits of schooling visible, understandable, and trustworthy. That way trust can grow — with or without standardized test scores.

 

What changes?

Before:
Compliance-Based Accountability

 
How school is explained:

✔ Technical language
✔ Compliance reports

What families hear:

✔ “Test scores are up/down”
✔ “We’re compliant (or not)”

Result:

✔ Distrust
✔ A story that doesn't travel

After:
Benefits-Based
Accountability

 
How school is explained:

✔ Shared language
✔ Narratives about  meaningful work

What families hear:

✔ “This is what we are doing for your child”
✔ “Here is how you can see that”

Result:

✔ Trust
✔ Understanding that travels

Where are our schools effective, and where do they have challenges to work on?

Only one approach answers that question.

There are different ways to begin this work

This work meets you where you are

Build a foundation for building trust

 

For: Individuals and teams of educators interested in learning more about how to build trust in what they do.

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Build an accountability system people understand

 

For: Educational leadership teams building out a new way to account for the things that matter to parents and communities.

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3. Advocate: The bravEd Center

A little bit of your voice will go a long way. 

The bravEd Center has become a hub for advocacy—uniting parents, educators, and community members to call for something better. 

Movements happen when voices align. That is the purpose of the Center.

Please join. Your role is simple: learn your schools', learn to tell them, and share. Your voice in essential to help build trust in public schools—one of our most vital institutions.

Get involved

Turn trust in education into a movement

  

For: Advocates interested in growing the trust in what our public schools do so that their work can have its full effect.

Join Up

Why these matter

Building trust requires doing the work — and being able to account for it meaningfully. Each of these creates capacity to do that.

The difference this work makes

“A benefits-based accountability system

ensures that we align our efforts with what truly matters to our community. We‘re able to build trust, foster stronger relationships, and more effectively live out our vision.“
 
Dr. Jennifer Brown
Superintendent
Early County School System
Blakely, GA

“Our strategic plan and portrait of a graduate call on us

to account for a more comprehensive impact on student development. Benefits-Based accountability allows us to report progress to our stakeholders in a language that is easy for them to understand.”
 
Dr. Jim Lloyd
Superintendent
Olmsted Falls City Schools
Olmsted Falls, OH

What leaders often discover once they begin this work

“When I think about bravEd's work,

it reminds me of that Mickey Mantle quote, it’s unbelievable how much you don't know about a game you've been playing your whole life.’“

Dr. Jack Rice
Executive Director, The Maple League Of Universities Director, Wolfville, Nova Scotia

 

If you've ever wondered what better accountability in schools could do for you.

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If trust matters, this work matters

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