// free resources

The learning is free.

Everything you need to learn these methods costs nothing — the dataset, the code, the videos, the sample reports. No paywall, no trial clock, no strings. This is the complete learning path.

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// the dataset
District Factory on GitHub
The complete synthetic school district every module uses: 250 students across ~17 tables and ~180,000 records — attendance, grades, behavior, interventions, meals, staffing, and more. Fully FERPA-safe because none of it is real, and every pattern from the curriculum is engineered in, waiting to be found.
  • All tables as CSVs, with a data dictionary
  • Starter Jupyter notebooks for each module
  • The code shown in every video
Open the GitHub Repository →
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// the curriculum
Module Videos
Dual-track video modules — a practitioner track for educators and a Python track for the technically inclined — walking from your first dataset load to measuring whether interventions actually worked. Watch free, follow along with the notebooks, work at your own pace.
  • New modules published monthly
  • Practitioner + Python track in every module
  • Built on the same District Factory data throughout
Browse the Modules →
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// the deliverables
Sample Reports
Seven full sample reports built from the synthetic district — delta analysis, community intelligence, staff analytics, attendance deep-dives, board-ready storytelling, student snapshots, and a Tier 2 intervention plan. See exactly what these methods produce before you ever spend a dollar.
  • Real report formats, synthetic data
  • Use them as templates for your own work
View the Sample Reports →
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// community intelligence in practice
Community-Aligned Literacy Kit
Put the words kids are learning on the things kids already stop to look at. A practical K–5 guide to finding what your community actually loves, choosing the right words, making artwork without a copyright problem, and measuring whether it worked — with six print-ready posters and a builder for your own.
  • Six 11×17 posters — trucks, rodeo, fishing, soccer, farming, band
  • Browser-based poster builder — type your sentence, print
  • Planning worksheet + public-domain word lists
Read the Guide → Open the Poster Builder →
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// the thinking
Insights
Written pieces on what school data can reveal when you look at it from different points of view — findings from the teaching dataset, methods explained in plain language, and the equity questions every flag should raise.
  • New pieces monthly
  • Every post grounded in data you can download
Read Insights →
"The learning is free — on purpose."

These methods should be everywhere, not behind a paywall. The services are how this work sustains itself — and how your district gets it running on your own data, with a partner in the room.

When You're Ready — Services & Pricing →