Audit
We map vision-to-system fit, the real learner model, curriculum and assessment architecture, and the tech stack — and deliver a findings report with a prioritized roadmap.
Greenhouse Schools · the practice
Start with the climate. Not a menu.
You're building a school — or the tool that serves one — which means there's still time to build it right for the students you'll actually have. We diagnose where the system needs to hold together, then build the pieces that don't exist yet.
How every engagement works
The same diagnostic engine — pointed at a school in formation.
No generic proposals. The audit prescribes the build; the build prescribes the implementation. Each stage earns the next.
Build
Prescribed by the audit. Curriculum and pathway architecture, multilingual overlays, AI workflows, and custom tools — built for your framework, not a generic one.
Implement & sustain
Launch support, PD for new staff, coaching cycles, and an optional data partnership that keeps improving the system — and feeds the research.
Who grows here
One engine. Tuned to your crop.
New & alternative schools
Build the system before the bureaucracy arrives.
Competency-based, hybrid, Montessori, Waldorf, and forest models often launch on a mission with no curriculum infrastructure underneath. We translate the founder's “why” into curriculum, assessment, and pathways that actually hold together — for the learners you'll actually enroll.
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International schools
Future-ready, globally minded, coherent.
IB, Cambridge, and American schools abroad were willing to be creative — that's their edge. We help them align global citizenship, high standards, AI and digital literacy, and sustainability into one system instead of a stack of disconnected initiatives.
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Microschools & networks
New public money. New scrutiny. No system yet.
ESA-, voucher-, and tax-credit-funded models got public dollars and public accountability in the same breath. For them the audit isn't a nice-to-have — it's how they keep their funding and their reputation. One network audit becomes a repeatable template, not fifty cold emails.
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Depending on what the audit reveals
What we build.
Curriculum & pathway architecture
Standards mapping, scope-and-sequence, and applied career pathways that hold together across grade bands.
ELD & multilingual overlays
WIDA-aligned scaffolding and access frameworks so multilingual learners are served by the model, not just present in it.
AI-integrated workflows
Thoughtful AI woven into instruction from day one — assistive, not bolted on — with a clear ethics line.
Assessment systems
Mastery and progress measurement that teachers will actually use — standards-aligned and adaptive.
Custom instructional tools
Purpose-built applications for the specific problem your school faces. AssessAlign is one example.
Standards-to-resource maps
A living alignment dashboard built for your network — proof we do the thing we advise.
Stage 01 · the wedge
The Greenhouse Audit
A 2–3 week, fixed-scope diagnostic of a school still in formation. The easiest yes a founder ever gives — and the door to everything that follows.
- Vision-to-system alignment scan
- Learner-model & multilingual access review
- Curriculum, assessment & tech-stack diagnostic
- Findings report + a roadmap that prices Build & Implement
Start the audit
Tell us what you're building. We'll tell you what it takes to make it hold together.
Or email admin@therootedlearner.com
Pricing
Start with the audit. Everything else follows from what we find.
We publish starting rates so you know what you're walking into. Deeper phases are scoped and priced in your findings report — handed to you, not sold to you.
Outcome-priced, not hourly. 50% deposit before work begins. Build and Implement figures are confirmed — and narrowed — in your audit findings.
Questions
Before you book
Every engagement starts with the Greenhouse Audit ($4,000–6,500). Build and Implement ranges above are typical — your findings report names and prices the phases that actually fit your school, so you're not guessing or sitting through a separate sales call.
That's the ideal time. A school in formation has the gap by definition — and no bureaucracy fighting the fix. We design the whole system to hold together from day one.
Yes. We act as the curriculum-integrity layer for personalization platforms — auditing fit, advising implementation, and giving you a credible channel into the networks we serve.
The audit is 2–3 weeks. Build and Implement depend on scope — typically 4 weeks to 3 months — and are sequenced so each stage earns the next.
Yes — remote and on-site. International schools are a core part of the Greenhouse Schools niche, especially those building IB, Cambridge, or American-style systems.