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OUR FIRM

Built alongside independent schools.

For fifteen years, True Progress has worked with independent schools to understand students more deeply, strengthen professional judgment, and help every child move forward.

That work led to a simple conviction:

Schools should be able to know every student clearly, know whether progress is happening, and know what to do next.

Today, we continue that work by helping schools make deep student understanding and visible progress part of everyday practice.

OUR VISION

A New Vision of School

In our vision, schools are communities where every learner is deeply understood, every educator is trusted to exercise professional judgment, and every family has confidence that meaningful progress is possible.

  • Every student develops an identity grounded in progress, capability, and possibility.
  • Every teacher rediscovers the joy and artistry of teaching.
  • Every parent experiences trust because progress is visible, understandable, and real.

Progress is not simply another educational outcome.

It is the condition that makes every other outcome possible.

BUILT FOR

Why Independent Schools?

Independent schools have always led education forward.

They have the freedom to innovate.

The tradition to pursue excellence.

And the expectation that every student should be known as an individual rather than managed as part of a system.

Those qualities make independent schools uniquely positioned to build the next model of student success.

True Progress exists to help them do exactly that.

TRUE PROGRESS

Trusted by over 100 independent schools nationwide.

Today, more than one hundred independent schools use True Progress to bring assessment, instruction, faculty development, and leadership together into one coherent Student Success System.

The system is built on five drivers:

1

Visibility

See every student clearly.

2

Focused Curriculum

Teach the right content, in the right order, for the right student.

3

Instruction

Turn insight into timely instructional action.

4

Meaningful Data

Use evidence to decide what happens next.

5

Workflows

Create the shared rhythms and roles that sustain progress.

Together, the five drivers form a complete Student Success System.

They create the conditions for every student to move forward.

OUR CONVICTION

When a school truly knows a student, labels stop limiting what’s possible.