Careers

We're proud to be a non-profit organization that serves the public sector effectively and efficiently. We prioritize creating a supportive environment for our staff who in turn serve our partners and the education field.

Great ideas emerge when we collaborate with experts of all kinds, and we solicit contributions from everyone. We choose collaboration over individualism, even if this makes some processes slower. We promote transparency by sharing our ideas widely, openly publishing and communicating our methods and techniques.

We value and respect the variance of human experiences across cultures, backgrounds, abilities, knowledge, and roles. The data, research, and insights we generate include the perspectives of stakeholders with the goal of improving their lives. We treat our colleagues with the respect and understanding that everyone comes from a different perspective. We work to support everyone’s dreams for their future.

We don’t conflate the status quo with evidence. We strive to protect against cognitive biases by using data and evidence to inform everything from small day-to-day decisions to large-scale, strategic initiatives. Innovation requires skepticism of repeating the past without evidence of its success.

We prioritize first principles thinking, which means we work to understand the fundamental principles underlying complex problems to design sustainable solutions. To get to first principles, we deliberate among all of the relevant stakeholders, both externally and internally.  Asking questions is both expected and invited, and is necessary to ensure we are espousing our other guiding principles.