Find out what your school actually rewards
Every school has an incentive structure. Most have never looked at theirs. This diagnostic shows you what behaviors are actually rewarded in your school, not just what you say you value.
The Problem
Schools say they value innovation and critical thinking. But their systems often reward something very different.
External inspections pull decisions toward what looks good on paper, not what actually works in classrooms.
When performance is measured in short cycles, teachers and leaders learn to chase the numbers. What gets measured gets optimized, whether or not it matters.
Taking risks gets quietly punished. Schools say they want innovation, but when something new threatens predictable results, it gets shut down.
Over time, the gap between what a school says it stands for and what it actually rewards grows wider. By the time anyone notices, trust has already taken damage.
This is not about blame. It is about visibility. You cannot fix what you have not seen.
Seven Dimensions
What the diagnostic measures
Each dimension captures a different structural force shaping your school. Together, they show the full picture of what is driving behavior.
Performance Pressure
How much do grade outcomes and test scores drive what actually happens in your school?
Compliance Gravity
How much do inspection frameworks and regulations shape everyday decisions?
Risk Tolerance
Does your school truly allow experimentation, or does it quietly penalize anything unpredictable?
Metric Dependency
How much does your school rely on narrow, easy-to-count numbers as proof that education is working?
Capability Alignment
Are long-term skills like critical thinking and real-world application built into how the school actually operates?
Time Horizon Bias
Do decisions focus on this term's results, or do they stretch across years of student development?
Narrative Alignment
The gap between what your school publicly says it values and the behaviors that are actually rewarded day to day. This is the dimension leaders find most revealing.
How It Works
How the diagnostic works
Tell Us Your Role
The diagnostic adapts to your role. Senior leaders, middle leaders, and teachers each experience incentive structures differently, so responses are read in context.
Answer the Questions
Seven short sections of clear statements, each targeting a specific dimension. No trick questions. No blame. Every question is written so that honest answers feel safe.
Make Trade-Off Choices
A few trade-off questions that reveal real priorities. When you have to choose between protecting a rating and trying something new, your answer tells us more than any opinion question ever could.
Get Your Report
A seven-dimension profile with a headline classification, a visual heatmap, tension mapping, and risk indicators. Not a score. A clear picture of how your school's incentives actually work.
Output
What the report reveals
Headline Classification
Your Incentive Profile
A clear label like "Proxy-Driven & Risk-Averse" or "Compliance-Heavy & Performance-Pressured" that captures the main forces pulling your school's behavior.
Visual Diagnostic
Seven-Dimension Heatmap
A radar chart mapping all seven dimensions at once. See immediately which pressures dominate and where hidden imbalances sit.
Where the System Fights Itself
Tension Mapping
Spots when your school holds contradictory positions. For example: wanting deep learning but heavily depending on narrow metrics. These tensions show where effort is being wasted.
What to Watch
Risk Indicators
Grade inflation pressure. Innovation suppression. Inspection vulnerability. Narrative credibility risk. Each one is graded by severity and clearly explained.
Design Principles
Designed for honest answers
This is not a culture survey. It is a structural diagnostic. Every design choice serves one goal: making it safe to answer honestly.
No blame, no finger-pointing
Questions describe systems, not people. No answer implies anyone is doing something wrong.
No moral judgments
Dimensions are not labeled "good" or "bad." They are structural realities that can be understood and changed.
Easy to complete
Short statements. Clear scales. No confusing phrasing that makes you second-guess what is being asked.
System-level, not personal
Results describe the institution, not individuals. Nobody is being evaluated or scored.
See what your school actually rewards
The diagnostic takes 12-15 minutes. The clarity it gives you will shape every decision you make after.
Begin the Diagnostic