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School-Based Outcomes

You Don't Adopt Purpose.
You Adopt Attendance.

Districts aren't evaluated on character — they're evaluated on the Eight State Priorities. The Outcomes Wheel maps each durable skill we measure to the accountability metric it moves: purpose to attendance, self-control to student behavior, grit to graduation rate. Growth you can already report.

The Accountability Problem

Districts Adopt What
They Can Report

A school district can't adopt something because it's inspiring. It adopts something because it solves an accountability problem — and in California, accountability has a specific shape.

01 — The Eight State Priorities

Every District Answers to the Same List

California's Local Control Funding Formula holds every district to eight state priorities — from pupil achievement and engagement to school climate and course access. Every LCAP goal, every dashboard indicator, rolls up to one of them.

02 — Metrics Are Money

When Attendance Drops, Funding Drops

Districts don't track attendance because they love data. Average daily attendance drives funding. Suspension rates, graduation rates, and assessment results carry the same weight on the state dashboard — and in the community.

03 — The Missing Link

Durable Skills Are the Lever Underneath

A student with a clear sense of purpose shows up. A student with self-control stays out of the discipline data. The Outcomes Wheel makes that link explicit — attribute by attribute, metric by metric.

The Eight State Priorities

The List Every California
District Answers To

California groups its eight LCFF priorities into three strands. Tap any priority to see what the state measures under it — and which durable skills feed it.

8 State
Priorities
LCFF · EC 52060(d)
Conditions of Learning Engagement Pupil Outcomes

Hover or tap any priority

The Outcomes Wheel

Eight Durable Skills.
Eight Outcomes the State Already Tracks.

Hover or tap any skill on the inner wheel to see the measurable outcome it moves — and the state priority that outcome reports to. This is the district ROI map: nothing we measure ends in a metric you don't already own.

Hover or tap any skill — or its outcome

The Eight State Priorities are established by California's Local Control Funding Formula (Education Code § 52060(d)) and reported through every district's LCAP and the California School Dashboard. CASEL® is a registered trademark of the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning.