Schools, organizations, and their clients accomplish more with the Small Wins Dashboard:

Organizations throughout the country rely on the Small Wins Dashboard to turn individual wins into shared progress, fueling collective growth and client success.

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Define what success looks like, sounds like, and feels like with your team when considering an innovation.

SEE THE DASHBOARD IN ACTION:

Built to embed in what you already do

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    Coaching & PD Cycles

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    Continuous Improvement Processes

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    Pilots & Design Sprints

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    Professional Learning Communities

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    Learning Walks & Walkthroughs

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    Organizational Learning Structures

  • Track what you want, how you want.

    We customize your dashboard for your goals, progress indicators, and teams. Use our research-based bank of indicators, leadership resources, and 1:1 guidance for easy, smart planning

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  • Gather small wins inclusively, transparently, and seamlessly.

    Everyone contributes through Reflective Storytelling– all within your existing team routines. Share small wins in just 5 minutes, easily integrate the app into your routines and build a professional learning culture in the process

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  • See what’s working in real-time, so you can do more of it.

    The Small Wins Dashboard converts individuals’ small wins into shared evidence of growth: Capture the beyond-the-numbers evidence that until now has been hard to collect and understand

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  • Get ongoing support and guidance

    Subscriptions include guidance & resources to help you get the most out of your Small Wins Dashboard. Receive 1:1 consultation on customization & usage planning, customization of your Dashboard, orientation & onboarding resources, leadership resources & ongoing guidance, technical support, and collaborative data reviews!

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Snapshots of Educator-Led Impact

Real small wins from the field:

Quick reflections that build momentum, surface what’s working, and help educators keep growing

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A Year End Process for Staff Synthesis of Learning
A Year End Process for Staff Synthesis of Learning

Even if we have ongoing qualitative evidence of success we could be examining, it can often be hard to organize, captured across a variety of formats, and not systematically embedded in our data reflection and analysis practices. Silos can hold genius we’re missing. We also may still emphasize only the qualitative “successes” instead of also including the “lessons learned” as wins in and of themselves.

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“Winning” in the Broadest Sense: Lessons for Leaders
“Winning” in the Broadest Sense: Lessons for Leaders

An asset-based orientation - focusing on successes - fuels the team’s momentum and mindset rather than depleting it. To be clear, we are not trying to gaslight you into a toxically positive view of celebrating wins in schools. Seeing weaknesses in implementation and impact creates urgency for change, and seeing success creates the belief that we can. Educators need both.

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    “The Small Wins Dashboard has helped us stay motivated when we can see little steps we’re making that are positive, instead of waiting for some data that shows a major accomplishment.”

    “It makes us more observant and reflective of our practice. And it makes it okay to say when something didn't work out because you see it as a learning experience instead of as a failure.”

    Maria Tukeva, Principal, Columbia Heights Educational Campus, DC Public Schools

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    "The Small Wins Dashboard has helped our schools set clear goals, measure progress, and capture the real voices of our teachers to assess student impact. "

    “It’s simple, customizable, and well-supported—an incredible tool for the daily conversations that ensure we meet students where they are and provide the programs they need to succeed!”

    Heather Perry, Superintendent, Gorham School District

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    “It helped clarify not only what [strategies] had been tried at our school, but how teachers were thinking about our goal."

    “As an administrator focused on collective teacher reflection and growth, I find this to be an incredible tool to capture teaching practice.”

    Julie Barber, The Bush School, Seattle, Washington

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    “It makes me think about my teaching in a different way and focus on the positivity.”

    Marissa Thiele, Teacher, Gorham High School

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    “It gives me a chance to stop and reflect on small successes, which actually put together are big. It also gives us a chance to talk about shared experiences.”

    Stacey Sawyer, Elementary Educator, Gorham Maine

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    The Small Wins Dashboard not only focuses staff energy on all the good things they are doing, but it also empowers them to look forward to a multitude of possibilities."

    “The collaborative approach of building the Small Wins Dashboard offers a connected and targeted focus on promising practices that are celebrated regularly as we track our wins.” 

    Jodi Mezzanotte, Principal, Gorham, Maine

 FAQs

  • A small win is a success or a lesson learned from your everyday work. These wins highlight what's working, and also provide valuable insights from what's not. Both types of small wins propel you closer to your goal. Research indicates that making meaningful progress in day-to-day tasks significantly boosts motivation, productivity, and performance.

  • The Small Wins Dashboard (SWD) is designed for whole staff use. When the whole team uses it, you generate more powerful evidence and foster engagement, team cohesion & learning culture in the process.

  • The average annual cost per user is about the same as a 1-day professional development workshop—$250. If you think the SWD might be a good fit, you can try it out for a few months at a much lower cost with no long-term commitment.

    Your annual subscription also includes onboarding support, ongoing leadership & technical support, as well as awesome leadership resources to help you get the most out of the SWD.

  • The app was created with busy professionals in mind. Submitting a small win reflection takes less than 5 minutes from any device.

    The tool is designed to be integrated into your existing team structures and routines because it easily captures what’s already happening. You simply haven’t had an easy way to capture it before.

  • Individuals can post Small Wins anonymously or as themselves—it’s completely up to them. SWD is designed to be a supportive environment, where everyone on a team can learn not only from each other’s successes but also from mistakes and problems that come up along the way.

  • Absolutely. As part of the onboarding process, we help you define exactly what goals and indicators make sense for your organization or school.

    Use our bank of research-based indicators, or create bespoke indicators for your goals.

  • The app is designed to fuel individual and collective growth but is not designed to be a formal evaluation tool.

    Many Individual customers use the My Stories feature to chart the journey of their growth and share it for improvement purposes.