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The learning environment has changed dramatically over the last decade. Technology has changed. Student attention patterns have changed. Expectations placed on teachers and schools have changed. Schools are increasingly being asked to address challenges related to student engagement, focus, emotional regulation, executive functioning, and behavior while facing growing demands on staff time and resources.
Growth Lab was designed specifically for the realities students and educators face today — not the environment schools were designed for decades ago.
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Growth Lab is being built as a K–12 platform, with initial implementation focused on elementary and middle school students.
We believe many of the skills most critical to long-term success — including emotional intelligence, healthy habits, executive functioning, self-awareness, responsibility, and goal-setting — are most effectively developed when introduced early and reinforced consistently over time. For that reason, our initial focus is on grades K–8, with particular emphasis on elementary-aged learners.
Future releases will expand support for middle school and high school students through age-appropriate experiences, lessons, and growth pathways. Our goal is to create a platform that can grow alongside students throughout their educational journey!
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Many SEL programs focus on occasional lessons, assemblies, or standalone curriculum materials.
Growth Lab takes a different approach. Rather than treating personal growth as something that happens once a week, Growth Lab integrates skill-building into students' daily experiences through personalized learning, reflection, goal-setting, habit formation, and engagement systems designed to reinforce positive behaviors over time.
Traditional SEL also often struggles with consistency. Students may encounter a concept once, but have few opportunities to revisit and apply it later. Growth Lab focuses on each individual student's weakness, personalizes each students learning path, and helps schools create ongoing reinforcement by allowing teachers to assign aligned lessons, queue future practice opportunities, and provide students with additional support in areas where growth is needed.
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No, Growth Lab is a learning platform that applies principles from behavioral psychology, game design, and educational research to support student development. Students engage with lessons, reflections, goals, challenges, and activities focused on emotional intelligence, executive functioning, healthy habits, personal growth, and life skills.
Game-inspired systems are used to increase participation, motivation, and consistency, but the purpose of the platform is learning and growth, not entertainment.
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Students participate in interactive lessons, reflections, challenges, focus activities, goal-setting systems, and growth experiences designed to support emotional intelligence, executive functioning, healthy habits, personal responsibility, and life skills.
As students progress, they can earn rewards, customize their experience, track personal goals, build positive routines, and develop skills that extend beyond the classroom.
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Yes, Growth Lab is designed to support personalized growth rather than a one-size-fits-all experience. Students can progress through many activities and learning experiences at a pace that reflects their individual strengths, challenges, interests, and developmental needs.
Teachers and schools maintain flexibility over how the platform is implemented within their classrooms and schedules.
Growth Lab combines evidence-informed learning practices with engagement systems inspired by the technologies students already interact with every day.
Students are encouraged to participate through progression systems, rewards, achievements, challenges, goal tracking, personalization, and interactive experiences designed to reinforce positive behaviors over time. The objective is to create an environment where students are motivated to consistently practice meaningful skills.
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Executive functioning skills are woven throughout the platform rather than taught in isolation.
Students practice skills such as planning, organization, time management, self-monitoring, task completion, goal-setting, delayed gratification, and sustained attention through everyday platform experiences. Growth Lab also includes tools that encourage students to develop healthy routines, manage responsibilities, and track progress toward personal goals.
By repeatedly practicing these skills in meaningful contexts and with proper spaced repetition and personalization, students have opportunities to strengthen habits that support success both inside and outside the classroom.
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Growth Lab is designed around the idea that no two students are exactly alike!
Students bring different strengths, challenges, interests, motivations, and developmental needs into the classroom. Most traditional approaches to SEL or behavioral management rely on one-size-fits all solutions, or are difficult and time-consuming to apply on an individual, per-student basis.
Rather than delivering identical experiences to every learner, Growth Lab aims to support more personalized growth pathways that help students build skills where they need them most. As the platform evolves, personalization systems will help tailor recommendations, activities, and growth opportunities based on each student's unique journey.
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Parents play an important role in student growth, and parent-focused features are planned for a future release of Growth Lab. Our goal is to give families greater visibility into their child's progress, goals, habits, and learning journey while preserving student autonomy and encouraging independence. Parents should be able to support growth at home without feeling pressured to micromanage every activity or interaction.
As parent features become available, families may be able to view progress updates, celebrate milestones, encourage positive habits, and participate in optional home-based activities that reinforce what students are learning.
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Implementation timelines vary depending on school size, goals, and deployment preferences. Growth Lab is designed to integrate into existing school routines without requiring extensive curriculum restructuring or complex setup processes. Our goal is to help schools get started efficiently while providing the training and support needed for long-term success.
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Growth Lab is a web-based platform and is intended to support the devices most commonly used in schools, including Chromebooks, laptops, and desktop computers. Specific device requirements and supported browsers may evolve as new features are released.
Yes, Growth Lab supports streamlined roster management to reduce manual account creation and administrative workload. Depending on implementation methods and available integrations, student, teacher, and classroom information can be imported and synchronized rather than entered individually.
Clever and ClassLink integrations are planned as part of the platform roadmap.
Additional integration details and availability timelines will be shared as implementation capabilities expand.
Growth Lab is designed to reduce friction, not create it.
Many features are built to automate common tasks such as progress monitoring, engagement tracking, and identifying students who may benefit from additional support. Teachers receive actionable insights without needing to manually collect and organize large amounts of data. We want to help educators spend more time teaching and supporting students, and less time managing systems.
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Little to none! Growth Lab is designed to be student-led and intuitive for all. Training requirements will vary depending on implementation goals, but most teachers should be able to begin using core features quickly. Additional onboarding resources, guidance, and support materials are available for schools seeking deeper implementation.
Yes, Growth Lab is designed to be flexible and can support a variety of implementation models. Schools may choose to use the platform during advisory periods, homeroom, dedicated SEL blocks, intervention periods, enrichment time, or as part of core classroom instruction. Teachers may also assign Growth Lab as classwork or homework. Implementation can be adapted to fit the needs of each class, school, or district.
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Yes! Teachers can facilitate activities, encourage participation, monitor progress, and support students through guided experiences designed to reinforce positive habits and skill development. Growth Lab also includes focus-oriented tools that can help students practice sustained attention, complete assignments, and stay engaged during classroom activities.
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Growth Lab is designed to support proactive classroom environments by encouraging student ownership, engagement, responsibility, and positive habits. Rather than focusing exclusively on discipline or corrective actions, the platform emphasizes skill-building and consistent reinforcement of behaviors that contribute to successful learning environments.
Many schools may choose to incorporate Growth Lab alongside existing classroom management, MTSS, PBIS, or student support initiatives.
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Schools and teachers can determine how frequently the platform is used based on their goals, schedules, and available instructional time. Some activities may take only a few minutes, while others can support longer learning experiences, projects, focus sessions, or classroom discussions. Lessons and Growth Lab sessions can also be assigned outside of class.
There is no single implementation model, allowing schools to adapt Growth Lab to their existing routines rather than redesigning their schedules around the platform.
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Yes, Growth Lab can be used alongside existing SEL programs, interventions, and student support initiatives. Schools may also choose to use Growth Lab as a primary SEL and student development platform depending on their goals and implementation model.
Unlike many traditional programs that rely heavily on worksheets, one-time lessons, or periodic classroom activities, Growth Lab is designed around continuous practice, reinforcement, and application. Students regularly engage with skills through interactive experiences, reflection, habit-building systems, and personalized learning pathways.
Teachers can assign or queue specific Growth Lab lessons that align with the concepts being taught in class. Whether students are learning about self-awareness, emotional regulation, relationship skills, or responsible decision-making, educators can reinforce those concepts with a single click. Growth Lab can also recommend relevant lessons, activities, reflections, and practice opportunities based on what students are currently learning. This helps move important concepts beyond a single classroom lesson and into ongoing practice throughout the school year.
Over time, the platform uses reinforcement, review, and repeated application to help students retain and strengthen skills rather than simply completing an activity and moving on.
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Principals receive both individual student insights and aggregated school-wide data, including student growth, engagement trends, behavioral patterns, implementation progress, and staff support load. Certain metrics can also be monitored in real time.
Growth Lab highlights significant changes in key indicators, emerging trends, and areas that may require additional attention. Principals can review individual student progress when needed, while also monitoring broader patterns across classrooms, grade levels, and the entire school.
The platform also provides data-informed recommendations to help guide prevention efforts, student support strategies, and school-wide decision-making.
Instead of reviewing dozens of disconnected reports, school leaders can quickly identify strengths, areas of concern, and opportunities for improvement across their building. Growth Lab helps administrators understand where students are thriving, where additional support may be needed, and how progress changes over time.
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District leaders can monitor trends across the entire district while also viewing individual school performance, grade-level trends, and other aggregated data to better understand where support may be needed.
District leaders receive aggregated district-wide insights, including student growth, engagement trends, behavioral patterns, implementation progress, and staff support load across participating schools. Certain metrics can also be monitored in real time.
The platform also highlights significant changes in key indicators, emerging trends, and areas that may require additional attention, and provides data-informed recommendations to help guide prevention efforts, resource allocation, intervention planning, implementation support, and district-wide decision-making.
Instead of reviewing dozens of disconnected reports from multiple schools, district leaders can quickly identify strengths, areas of concern, and opportunities for improvement across their district. Growth Lab helps administrators understand where students and educators are thriving, where additional support may be needed, and how progress changes over time.
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Growth Lab helps schools move beyond participation metrics and focus on meaningful student outcomes.
Schools can monitor trends related to student engagement, behavior, focus, self-management, and other developmental indicators over time. By providing consistent opportunities for practice and reinforcement, Growth Lab supports long-term student growth while helping administrators track progress toward broader school improvement initiatives.
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Growth Lab is designed to help educators identify patterns that may warrant additional attention, not to diagnose students or replace professional judgment.
Through engagement data, participation trends, goal progress, check-ins, focus activities, and other indicators, educators may be able to recognize students who could benefit from additional support, intervention, or follow-up conversations. Growth Lab can also highlight significant changes in key metrics and emerging trends that may otherwise be difficult to identify across large groups of students.
Student reflections, journals, and other private reflection activities are meant to remain private and are not intended to be monitored by SEL DEVELO. The purpose of these tools is to encourage honest self-reflection, self-awareness, and personal growth while helping maintain student trust and privacy.
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Yes, district administrators can review aggregated data across participating schools in-district to identify similarities, differences, and areas of opportunity. Comparisons can help district leaders understand implementation progress, monitor engagement trends, and identify practices that may be contributing to positive outcomes.
Growth Lab is designed to support continuous improvement, not create public rankings or competition between schools.
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Many student support initiatives place additional demands on educators who are already balancing instruction, classroom management, student support, documentation, and countless other responsibilities.
Growth Lab helps reduce this burden by providing personalized growth pathways, automated progress tracking, and actionable insights in one place. Rather than trying to manually monitor and support every student individually, educators receive greater visibility into student needs, strengths, and areas for growth, allowing them to focus their time where it can have the greatest impact.
The platform also helps reduce classroom friction by encouraging student ownership, participation, focus, and habit-building through systems designed to reinforce positive behaviors over time.
The goal is not to give teachers another task to manage. The goal is to help them spend more time teaching, building relationships, and supporting students, and less time trying to coordinate dozens of individual support efforts at once.
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Yes, Growth Lab helps schools understand not only whether students are growing, but also how consistently the platform is being implemented across classrooms, grade levels, schools, and districts.
Administrators can monitor indicators such as participation rates, lesson completion, engagement levels, focus activity usage, student reflections, and other implementation-related metrics. These insights can help school leaders identify successful practices, recognize areas where additional support may be needed, and better understand how implementation may be influencing outcomes.
Rather than relying solely on surveys or anecdotal observations, Growth Lab provides ongoing visibility into how the platform is being used and how engagement changes over time. The platform is not meant for educator evaluation.
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Growth Lab combines research from social-emotional learning, behavioral psychology, habit formation, executive functioning, motivation science, and educational technology.
The platform incorporates practices such as spaced repetition, active reflection, goal-setting, positive reinforcement, and personalized learning pathways to help students retain and apply skills over time. Rather than relying on one-time lessons, Growth Lab focuses on ongoing practice and reinforcement throughout the school year.
As the platform grows, SEL DEVELO plans to partner with schools and districts to conduct additional research, case studies, and outcome evaluations.
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Growth Lab uses a combination of student activities, learning patterns, goals, reflections, participation data, habit-building progress, and skill development to understand growth over time.
To protect student privacy, personal reflections and journal entries remain private and inaccessible to educators, administrators, parents, and SEL DEVELO staff. Instead, Growth Lab uses privacy-preserving AI systems to evaluate characteristics such as reflection depth, consistency, and growth patterns without exposing the underlying content itself.
Growth Lab also uses proprietary scoring models and learning systems developed by SEL DEVELO to identify student strengths, areas for improvement, learning preferences, and skill progression. These systems help personalize lesson recommendations, adjust difficulty levels over time, and prioritize the skills that may have the greatest impact for each individual student.
Growth is measured continuously rather than through a single assessment. As students interact with the platform, Growth Lab builds a more complete understanding of progress across areas such as emotional awareness, self-management, executive functioning, habit formation, goal achievement, focus, engagement, and other developmental skills.
For schools participating in pilots or the Founding Cohort, Growth Lab also includes a pre-implementation research period. During this phase, baseline trends are collected before any intervention occurs. This allows schools to compare outcomes before and after implementation and better understand changes over time. Schools can review progress at the student, classroom, grade, school, and district level, while also comparing local trends against broader aggregated benchmarks as additional partner schools join the platform.
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Yes, school administrators can access aggregated insights across classrooms, grade levels, and schools to better understand emerging patterns and areas of opportunity. District administrators can also view insights across their district and participating schools. Depending on role and permissions, leaders may also be able to drill down into individual schools, student groups, or other relevant data views.
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Yes! Schools can export reports and relevant data to support planning, presentations, stakeholder communication, grant reporting, and other operational needs. Available export options may evolve as new reporting tools and dashboard features are introduced.
Our goal is to make important information accessible and usable without requiring administrators to manually compile data from multiple sources.
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Many behavior tracking systems focus primarily on documenting problems after they occur.
Growth Lab focuses on helping students build the skills that contribute to long-term success, including emotional awareness, self-management, executive functioning, healthy habits, focus, and goal-setting. While administrators and educators can monitor trends and identify areas of concern, the platform places equal emphasis on prevention, growth, reinforcement, and skill development.
Rather than simply recording behavior, Growth Lab helps students practice the underlying skills that influence behavior in the first place.
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At a minimum, schools provide student, teacher, and class roster information so accounts can be created and students can be connected to the appropriate classrooms and educators.
To support implementation, schools may also choose to share historical, aggregate data such as attendance trends, behavioral incident data, disciplinary referrals, and other relevant school-wide metrics. Student-level historical data is not required for participation.
When available, historical data helps establish a more accurate baseline for measuring outcomes over time. Student behavior, attendance, engagement, and other indicators naturally fluctuate throughout the school year. By comparing Growth Lab outcomes against historical school trends, schools gain a clearer understanding of what changes may be attributable to implementation rather than normal seasonal patterns.
All schools participating in the Founding Cohort and pilot programs receive a pre-implementation research period at no additional cost. During this phase, Growth Lab collects baseline data and works with school leaders to establish meaningful comparison metrics before full implementation begins. The goal is to help schools understand whether student outcomes are improving relative to their own historical patterns and long-term goals
Student behavior, attendance, engagement, and other school metrics naturally change throughout the year. Without a baseline, it can be difficult to determine whether improvements or declines are the result of an intervention or simply normal seasonal patterns.
Before full implementation begins, Growth Lab includes a pre-implementation research period that establishes baseline trends and helps schools identify their current strengths, challenges, and priorities. This allows schools to compare outcomes before and after implementation, creating a clearer picture of growth over time and helping leaders make more informed decisions about student support, resource allocation, and long-term improvement efforts.
For schools participating in the Founding Cohort or pilot programs, this research period is included at no additional cost.
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Growth Lab collects the information necessary to provide the platform, personalize learning experiences, support implementation, and generate educational insights. Depending on school settings and permissions, this may include account information, classroom and roster data, lesson progress, activity completion, focus session participation, goals, habit-building activities, platform interactions, and other educational records generated through normal use of the platform.
Growth Lab follows data minimization principles and only collects information that supports educational, operational, security, or research purposes. Student reflections, journals, and similar activities are treated differently from traditional educational records and are subject to additional privacy protections.
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Schools and districts retain ownership of their educational records and student data.
SEL DEVELO does not sell student information, does not claim ownership of student records, and does not use student information for advertising purposes. Growth Lab processes information solely to provide, maintain, improve, secure, and support the educational services requested by participating schools and districts.
Specific ownership, access, retention, and deletion provisions are outlined in applicable agreements and privacy documentation.
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Growth Lab incorporates multiple layers of technical, administrative, and organizational safeguards to protect student information. Security measures may include encrypted data transmission, encrypted storage, role-based access controls, authentication requirements, audit logging, restricted administrative access, vendor oversight procedures, and ongoing security monitoring.
Access to information is limited based on role and educational need. Students, educators, administrators, parents, and platform administrators do not all have access to the same information.
Additional details regarding security practices, compliance commitments, and data governance are available in the Student Privacy Center.
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No. Student journals, private reflections, and similar personal entries are intended to remain private. Growth Lab does not provide teachers, administrators, parents, or SEL DEVELO staff with access to the contents of private student reflections. Certain platform features may analyze reflection patterns, consistency, and other educational indicators to support personalization and growth measurement. However, these processes do not expose the underlying journal content to human reviewers.
This approach encourages honest self-reflection while helping protect student privacy and psychological safety.
If a school enables optional activities that are intended to be shared with educators, classmates, or family members, those activities will be clearly identified separately from private reflections.
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Yes. Schools and districts may request deletion of student information in accordance with applicable contracts, legal requirements, retention obligations, and privacy regulations. Parents and guardians may also have certain rights regarding student information, depending on applicable laws, school policies, account type, and the student's age.
When a deletion request is approved, Growth Lab will take reasonable steps to permanently remove or anonymize applicable information from active systems and records, subject to legal, security, backup, audit, or compliance requirements.
Additional information regarding data retention, deletion procedures, and privacy rights is available in the Privacy Policy and Student Privacy Center.
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No. Growth Lab does not display third-party advertisements, sell student information, or use student data to build advertising profiles. Information generated through platform usage is used to personalize educational experiences, identify skill gaps, support student growth, and provide educational insights to authorized users.
Growth Lab's business model is based on school and district partnerships, not advertising revenue.
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Yes. Growth Lab uses artificial intelligence to support personalization, educational insights, reflection analysis, content recommendations, and other platform features.
Student data is not used to train general-purpose AI models or public AI systems. Information provided through Growth Lab is used only to deliver, improve, and support the platform in accordance with applicable privacy commitments, contracts, and policies.
AI is used as a supporting tool rather than a replacement for educators, administrators, counselors, or other school personnel. Schools maintain control over educational decisions, interventions, and implementation practices. Growth Lab provides information and recommendations to assist decision-making, but final decisions remain with authorized school staff.
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Growth Lab uses AI in several ways, including personalization, reflection analysis, content recommendations, and educational insights.
One application involves helping evaluate the depth, consistency, and developmental characteristics of student reflections. To protect privacy, reflections and journals remain private and inaccessible to educators, administrators, parents, and SEL DEVELO staff. AI processes this information without exposing the underlying content to human reviewers.
Growth Lab also uses proprietary learning models and educational algorithms to identify skill gaps, adjust lesson difficulty, recommend activities, and help personalize each student's experience over time.
AI recommendations are one component of the platform. Educational decisions, interventions, and student support actions remain under the authority of schools and educators.
Growth Lab does not use AI to advertise to students, sell information, or create commercial profiles.
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Growth Lab is licensed on a per-student basis. Pricing may vary based on implementation scope, school size, contract length, pilot participation, and additional services requested. Schools participating in pilots or the Founding Cohort may be eligible for introductory pricing, early-access benefits, and implementation support.
Detailed pricing is provided during the proposal process after discussing school goals, student population, and implementation needs.
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The process typically begins with an introductory conversation, platform demonstration, or pilot discussion.
After learning about a school's goals and implementation needs, SEL DEVELO provides a proposal outlining pricing, implementation timelines, support services, and pilot options when available. Once agreements are finalized, onboarding begins, student and staff accounts are prepared, and implementation planning is completed before launch.
Schools participating in the Founding Cohort may complete an additional pre-implementation research period prior to full rollout.
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Yes. Schools may participate in a paid pilot before committing to a full implementation. Pilot programs provide an opportunity to evaluate student engagement, implementation fit, platform features, and early outcomes within a real educational environment. Pilot participants also receive access to Growth Lab's pre-implementation research period, allowing schools to establish baseline trends before intervention begins.
Pilot availability may vary based on implementation capacity and cohort enrollment.
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A Growth Lab license includes student access, educator tools, administrative dashboards, reporting features, implementation resources, platform updates, and ongoing support.
Depending on implementation stage and license, schools may also receive onboarding assistance, professional development resources, research support, and access to newly released platform features. All Founding Partners will also have access to additional opportunities.
Specific services and implementation details are outlined during the proposal process.
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Student behavior, attendance, engagement, and other school metrics naturally change throughout the year. Without a baseline, it can be difficult to determine whether improvements or declines are the result of an intervention or simply normal seasonal patterns.
Before full implementation begins, Growth Lab includes a pre-implementation research period that establishes baseline trends and helps schools identify their current strengths, challenges, and priorities. This allows schools to compare outcomes before and after implementation, creating a clearer picture of growth over time and helping leaders make more informed decisions about student support, resource allocation, and long-term improvement efforts.
For schools participating in the Founding Cohort or pilot programs, this research period is included at no additional cost.
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Yes, Growth Lab can be implemented by individual schools, school networks, charter organizations, private schools, districts, and other educational organizations. District-wide adoption is not required. Schools may begin with a single building and expand over time if desired.
Implementation plans can be adapted to fit the size, structure, and goals of each organization.
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The Fall 2026 Founding Pilot Cohort is a limited group of schools that will help shape the future of Growth Lab through early implementation, feedback, and collaboration. Participating schools receive early access to the platform, direct communication with the development team, implementation support, and opportunities to influence future features and priorities.
All schools joining during the 2026–2027 school year, including pilot participants, may qualify for Founding Partner recognition.
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Founding Partners receive early access opportunities, direct collaboration with SEL DEVELO, priority consideration for feedback requests, implementation support, and recognition as an early partner helping shape the platform.
Founding Partners may also receive additional benefits as the program evolves, including opportunities to participate in research initiatives, case studies, advisory discussions, and future pilot opportunities.
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Schools can become Founding Partners by participating in an eligible pilot or implementation during the 2026–2027 school year and completing the required onboarding process.
Availability is limited and participation may be subject to implementation capacity.
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The Founding Partner opportunity is currently expected to remain open throughout the 2026–2027 school year. Specific enrollment windows, pilot dates, and implementation timelines may vary based on capacity and program availability.
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The Founding Cohort is intentionally limited to ensure participating schools receive meaningful implementation support and opportunities for collaboration. The exact number of schools accepted may vary based on school size, implementation timelines, and available support capacity.
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There is no additional fee to participate in the Founding Cohort or receive Founding Partner recognition.
Schools become eligible through participation in an approved pilot or implementation during the 2026–2027 school year. Standard pilot or licensing fees apply, but there are no separate Founding Partner fees.
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