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title: Measuring Impact Design Lab
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# The Center's Measuring Impact Design Lab

### Design the impact. Validate the evidence. Tell the story on your terms.

The Measuring Impact Design Lab flips the script on how microschools measure success. Founders submit real impact challenges and, if selected, work side by side with experienced researchers who roll up their sleeves to build measurement frameworks that make sense for small, innovative microschools of various models, ensuring validity, helping founders understand their data and sharing best practices for communicating results to key stakeholders. Inside the Lab, you’ll find real measuring impact tools, honest case studies from microschools that have gone through the process and proof points shaped in the real world.

We invite you to consider: What does student success look like in your microschool, aligned with your mission and your model? This can include both academic and nonacademic success.

In what ways can this success be articulated in measurable terms? This includes both for each child individually and as an aggregate that represents your microschool's overall impact to stakeholders, including your families.

 

When you have arrived at ways you feel can describe your overall impact, or impacts, measurably, how can you ensure you are telling this story objectively, with the integrity and fidelity to ensure it is not based on selective reporting?

 

The Measuring Impact Design Lab gives microschool leaders the opportunity to work with research experts to develop ways to tell the story of their success on their own terms.

[![Submit a proposal](https://microschoolingcenter.org/hubfs/Submit%20a%20proposal.png)

### Submit a project

Looking for help measuring your impact during your 2026-2027 school year? Submit a request for consideration and see if one of our research fellows matches with you.

](https://forms.gle/SK89ShYQMidQQnLZA)

[![Available Tools](https://microschoolingcenter.org/hubfs/Available%20Tools.png)

### Available Tools

Our tool library contains everything from norm-referenced assessments, to banks of survey questions, to Social Emotional impacts and more.

](https://microschoolingcenter.org/midl-tools?hsLang=en)

[![Case Studies](https://microschoolingcenter.org/hubfs/Case%20Studies.png)

### Case Studies

Take a look at case studies and Measuring Impact research. This can be helpful to you as you design your process for measuring impact in your microschool.

](https://microschoolingcenter.org/midl-case-studies?hsLang=en)

[![Meet the researchers](https://microschoolingcenter.org/hubfs/Meet%20the%20researchers.png)

### Meet the Research Fellows

We've partnered with researchers from many institutions that are excited to work with microschools.

](https://microschoolingcenter.org/midl-research-fellows?hsLang=en)

[![submit a tool](https://microschoolingcenter.org/hubfs/submit%20a%20tool.png)

### Become a Research Fellow

Interested in researching microschools? Looking to help microschools with various, valid methods of demonstrating impact? Submit your information for consideration.

](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc3-IUfQ3mEy3id4OPDqIsSDyJlkL3KimfXeP49KL9u9QP17w/viewform?usp=publish-editor)

[![additional resources](https://microschoolingcenter.org/hubfs/additional%20resources.png)

### Additional Resources

Find additional resources that can help you as you set out to design your measures of impact that align with your microschool.

](https://microschoolingcenter.org/midl-additional-resources?hsLang=en)

[![additional research](https://microschoolingcenter.org/hubfs/additional%20research.png)

### Other Research

Looking for more Center research? 

](https://microschoolingcenter.org/research?hsLang=en)

[![Versa Card Hubspot (37)](https://microschoolingcenter.org/hubfs/Versa%20Card%20Hubspot%20(37).png)

### Measuring Impact Events

Take a look at the Center calendar for all of the latest events about measuring impact including informational meetings, webinars, cohorts and more!

](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=c_2dc9aad9520963e884993992096467a95d4b5b4dfb6af3a6053a14ed205aa343%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America%2FLos_Angeles)

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