Question, map, pilot: the school-year rhythm.
Institute of One applies the Of One method to the choices an education leader owns: sharpen the question, trace where work and risk gather, then pilot and evaluate before anything spreads. of1.ai publishes the complete method.
Prism: name the decision and its owner
Ahead of any new policy or pilot, eight answers go on paper: the decision-maker, the outcome for students, the facts on the ground, the limits that cannot bend, the levers at hand, the path change would take, the proof we would accept and the deadline.
Map: trace the work and the risk
The map shows where paperwork piles up, which staff and students each change would touch, and where student data or fairness is at stake. We start where relief is largest and that risk is smallest.
Forge: pilot, evaluate, then grow
Next, the most modest pilot able to test the shakiest assumption, measured against numbers recorded before it started. It spreads only if the evidence stands up.
In a block or an engagement
Five Consult hours are usually enough to take one question from Prism to a first pilot. Build repeats the cycle every term. Your staff practise it until they no longer need us in the room.
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