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The Seminars

Accounting for What Matters

A bravEd® Learning Series on Building Trust With Those Who Matter Most

Accounting for What Matters...

...is bravEd’s signature induction into Benefits-Based Accountability—a new way to think about educational leadership, trust, and impact.

Whether you’re introducing this work to your school or district for the first time, or stepping into leadership in a system already using Benefits-Based Accountability, this series is your entry point.

Over five interactive 90-minute sessions, you'll learn how to:

  • Build trust through your work—both with those you serve and those you work alongside
  • Strengthen the public’s confidence in your school or district
  • Empower educators to focus on the right work and account for it with meaning
  • Transform your perspective on accountability—and maybe even your life (yes, it’s that powerful)
Why This Matters

Educators are rarely taught that accountability can be a trust-building tool. But in most other professions, that’s exactly what it is. Accountability should be a leadership discipline—something that helps leaders advocate for good policy and demonstrate real value.

This series helps you see accountability differently: as a foundation for trust, leadership, and long-term change.

Your Next Step

The Accounting for What Matters Series is just the beginning. Our mission is to make public education the most trusted of our public institutions. We do that one educator, one school, and one district at a time—and it starts here.

Join us. Learn the work. Become a leader who accounts for what truly matters.

The Leadership Impact

Educational leaders who complete this series walk away with more than tools—they leave with a framework for leading lasting change.

 
By grounding accountability in trust and leadership, you’ll be equipped to:

✔ Reframe conversations about performance, outcomes, and fairness

✔ Rally your community around what truly matters

✔ Drive systems-level improvement with clarity and confidence

✔ Be part of a growing network of leaders transforming public education from the inside out

Oct 28, 2025 Registration
Jan 14, 2026 Registration

Dash Boards That Matter

A bravEd® Learning Series on Strategic Communication for School Leaders

The Leadership Impact

Educational leaders who complete this series walk away with:

 ✔ Frameworks to design dashboards that truly matter 

âś” Tools to translate complex data into clear, meaningful visuals

âś” Strategies for building maximum understanding with minimal clutter

✔ The ability to shift the conversation from “What does this mean?” to “How can we help?”

âś” Increased trust and support from your board, your community, and your key stakeholders

These dashboards don’t just inform—they lead 

Dashboards That Matter...

...is our five-part series designed to help school and district leaders communicate clearly, meaningfully, and persuasively with their most important audiences:

  • School Boards
  • Community Members
  • Policy Makers
Dashboards Are About More Than Data

Not all dashboards are created equal. Many are built for internal, technical use—filled with real-time data that only makes sense to those with specialized knowledge.

And while that level of detail is valuable within your organization, it often fails to build the kind of public understanding and trust that schools and districts need.

That’s where Dashboards That Matter come in.

From “What Does This Mean?” to “How Can We Help?”

At bravEd, we specialize in helping school leaders create dashboards that do more than inform—they shift the conversation.

We’ve developed proven methods for designing visual tools using simple desktop software that clarify your goals, demonstrate your impact, and invite collaboration. The result? A shift from confusion to connection, from questioning to support.

In our seminars, you’ll learn how to:
  • Tailor your dashboard to specific audiences
  • Present data in ways that tell a compelling story
  • Build understanding without oversimplifying complexity
  • Use dashboards to invite partnership—not just accountability
  • Create real coherence across each of your strategies and directional efforts
Built for Practice, Not Just Theory

This isn’t a passive learning experience. The series includes:

  • Practical frameworks you can apply immediately
  • Conversations on how this links to your current efforts
  • Real examples and templates to jump-start your own dashboard design

The more effectively you communicate your school’s purpose and progress, the closer we all move toward our shared mission: making public education the most trusted of our public institutions.

Join us and learn how to turn information into understanding—and understanding into support.

"This seminar was incredibly valuable in shifting how I think about dashboards. It helped me see them not just as compliance tools, but as storytelling tools that build trust and communicate progress to non-technical audiences. It really challenged me to think more intentionally about how we present data to our broader community."

Lisa M. Morris
Data and Assessment Instructional Specialist
27J Schools, Brighton, CO

Oct 1, 2025 Registration

The FairTest/bravEd Measuring What Matters Series

Real accountability requires great evidence. Measuring What Matters puts you on that journey 

John Tanner of bravEd, and Harry Feder of FairTest...

...have teamed up on a topic that matters greatly to a great many people. John teaches about how to account for the things that matter most in a school, and no one is better than Harry at showing how to create evidentiary sources for what matters most.

This series combines their expertise in pragmatic ways for those who need to see the link between performance assessment and a meaningful way to account for what happens in a school. That connection feels elusive, and yet for both John and Harry it is anything but.

This series is appropriate for teachers and administrators alike. To that end, registrants will also be given access to the Accountability Mindset Online, which is a self-paced course that can place these topics into a larger context.

If you are someone who would like to increase your capacity to understand the effectiveness of the teaching practice in your classroom or school, please join our next series.

Apr 30, 2025 Series Registration