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Relationship capital is the capital.
Everything a school wants — the results, the attendance, the family who stays, the teacher
who is still there in her fifth year — sits on top of one thing: whether people feel
known here.
Every school believes this. Almost none of them have a way to tend it.
Steward is that way. Built by practitioners, for the people doing the work.
The teacher who stays is the whole strategy.
A teacher in her third year, who knows the families, who has learned the building — she is worth more to your children than any curriculum you will buy this decade. Keeping her is not a retention problem. It is the plan.
And she is knowable. She goes quiet before she goes. So does a family. The signal is always there in October, sitting in the silence — and it costs nothing to look.
The children who need a stable adult the most are in the schools least able to keep one. That is not a mystery. It is a maintenance problem — and nobody has been given the tools to do the maintenance.
A practice tool. Not another dashboard.
Steward trusts your teachers to think. It does the counting — the arithmetic nobody has time for — and then it asks them a question and gets out of the way.
Because the thinking is the practice. A tool that hands people conclusions makes them faster this week and smaller by June. We would rather make them dangerous.
Steward was built inside a school, by people who taught in one — twenty years across Brooklyn, Harlem, Chicago, Gary, and Cincinnati. Every screen in it was argued about by somebody who would have to use it at 6:40 in the morning.
The practitioner interprets.
Relationship Capital
Every family and every colleague, and how long since they last heard from you. Steward surfaces the silence — the list you'd have wanted in October, while there is still a whole year to do something with it. It never scores a relationship. Score one, and somebody starts gaming a call log.
The Story
Bring in a biweekly check or a trimester exam. Steward splits it by ELL, IEP, new transfers, attendance — any lens your teachers invent — and hands them the number. Then it asks: what do you notice? And: what would prove you wrong?
The Board
One wall the whole building reads. The fire drill, the substitute protocol, the dates everyone forgets — and the good news, which most schools never post. A new hire in February should be able to stand here and read the building.
Teamwork
Rosters, lists, deliverables, and a wire that lives with the work instead of dying in a group chat. Every message can be answered — seen, on it, resolved — so a leader can tell the difference between agreement and silence.
The Practice
An inquiry engine built on Elements of Thought, the intellectual traits, Shared Inquiry, and twenty years of coaching practitioners. Every reflection is private — enforced in the rules, not in a setting. Not even we can read it.
StewardHR
The hiring pipeline, and the update it writes for you. Who's been waiting nine days on a decision. Whose offer has gone cold. Whose fingerprints are blocking a start date. One button, and your leadership knows.
Signals
The evidence — including the evidence against us. Coverage, overturn rate, acceptance rate. Correlation, never causation. If Steward isn't working, this is how you find out first.
Your data never stops being yours.
Steward signs in with the Google account your staff already has — domain-locked to your school. Your hiring tracker stays the Google Sheet you already keep, in your Drive, under your retention policy. Steward reads it and writes back to it.
We are a lens on your data. Not a second copy of it. And a practitioner's private reflection is readable by nobody — not their principal, not us. That is enforced on Google's servers, in rules you are welcome to read.
One price. Everyone in.
The paraprofessional, the intern, the front office, the first-year teacher — they are all doing the work, so they all get the tool. No seat counting. No school should have to do arithmetic about who is worth including.
One Full Cycle
one grading cycle
- Everyone on staff
- Every feature. All of it.
- Relationship Capital
- The Story · The Board
- StewardHR · Signals
- 90-minute onboarding
A trimester, a quarter, a marking period — whatever you call yours. Long enough to run a real data cycle, watch a family come back, and see your own numbers move. At the end you won't be deciding whether you liked it. You'll be reading your own evidence.
Practice
per school / year
- Everything, ongoing
- Your logo, your colors
- Your own rubric, linked
- Your school's own words
- Full onboarding
- Your data in your Drive
Under a quarter of what one teacher's departure costs a school. Keep one teacher who would otherwise have gone, and it paid for itself four times over.
Firm
per school / year
- Everything in Practice
- Three schools or more
- Network-wide signals
- Half-day onboarding, each
- Direct line to us
For networks. Every school keeps its own words, its own rubric, its own data.
Nu Teacher — our culturally responsive teacher thought-partner for lesson planning, briefings, and practice-work — bundles at +$3,000/year. Nu Teacher teaches the practice. Steward tends the capital.
A family that feels known does not leave quietly.
They tell you first. That is what the capital buys — and it is why a school that tends it keeps
its children, its families, and its teachers.
Take one full cycle. Decide on your own numbers.