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Our first research white paper is here!

Stephanie Frenel2 min read
Our first research white paper is here!

A Milestone for SchoolOpsAI

We are excited to share a milestone for SchoolOpsAI: our first research white paper is complete!


The Pilot: Real-Time Visibility for School Leaders

During the 2025–26 school year, we piloted our platform with a group of school and central office leaders. Throughout that pilot, our User Success Researcher studied something we've believed from day one but hadn't yet proven with data:

  • Giving leaders unified, real-time visibility into their schools changes how they think, and how they decide.

What the Paper Reveals

The paper captures that story. It examines the shifts in insight and decision-making that leaders experienced as they moved from fragmented data sources to a single, connected view.

  • It's early evidence, but it's real evidence.
  • This research is the foundation for everything we build next.

Why This Matters

We've always believed that leaders' decisions and strategies have a direct line to teacher efficacy and student outcomes. This research is our first look at that chain in motion, starting from the top.


What's Next

In SY26–27, our research goes a layer deeper:

  1. We'll be studying the specific decisions leaders make as a result of using the platform.

  2. We'll start to trace that impact all the way to students.


Get Involved

We'd love for you to read both the brief overview and the full paper, and we'd love it even more if you shared it with others who care about this work.


We Want Your Feedback

As always, we want to hear what you think. Send us an email. Your feedback shapes where we take this next.


Thanks for being part of this journey!