Under The Hood
In Your Hands
The Big Picture
Live Demo
90 seconds. A complete competency portrait.
Watch the engine score a student response in real time, with live signals.
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The Solutions
The Methods
The Foundations
Selected by California
Chosen To Design The State's Behavioral Health Performance Management System.
The BHSSA award — durable-skill measurement at state scale.
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The Case
The Science
The Proof
The Proof
Real districts, real data, real names.
What partner districts saw in year one — in their own words.
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The Arc
The People
The Promise
From the Founders
We built this because the tools didn't exist.
A note on why two educators chose to build a measurement company.
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The Eight Anchor Attributes

Eight Skills. Four Quads.
One Arc of Growth.

The Anchor Attributes derive from Harvard's Making Caring
Common research — eight durable skills organized as one
continuous cycle, each mapped to the CASEL® framework
and measured through authentic student voice.

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The Wheel, Mapped to CASEL

Competencies At The Core
Of The Impacter Cycle

Every attribute lives in one of our 4 quads, and every quad carries a CASEL® connection. Select any attribute to see its definition, and the linguistic signal our machine learning models listen for.

CLICK AN ATTRIBUTE FOR ITS OWN DEFINITION
CASEL MAPPING + LINGUISTIC SIGNAL

↓ Anchor Attributes Chart (PDF)
The Impacter Cycle

Why The Wheel Turns In This Order

The quads are not a menu, they are a sequence. Growth starts with the drive to understand, moves through pursuit and perseverance, and closes with care and recognition before the cycle begins again.

Quad 1

Curiosity + Perspective-Taking

CASEL®: Awareness

The drive to know and understand the world, yourself, and others.

Quad 2

Purpose + Self-Control

CASEL®: Self-Management

The development and pursuit of your Quad 1 goals, during which you overcome obstacles and help others do the same.

Quad 3

Grit + Growth Mindset

CASEL®: Responsible Decision-Making

The qualities and skills needed to persevere despite those struggles you or others face during Quad 2.

Quad 4

Compassion + Gratitude

CASEL®: Relationship Skills

The care and recognition we offer ourselves and others throughout and after the current cycle ends.

The Impacter Wheel in motion — eight anchor attributes cycling through four quads
Linguistic Signals

Each Skill Leaves A Signature In Language

Our rubric-aligned machine learning models don't score vocabulary or polish. They recognize the observable evidence of each attribute in authentic student language, and are trained on tens of thousands of educator-scored responses.

Student Reflection · Verbatim
"I felt overwhelmed at first, but taking small steps helped me see progress."

What the model hears: temporal linking ("at first… helped me"), a named emotional state, and a concrete coping strategy — observable evidence of Self-Control and Growth Mindset, scored against the same rubric trained educators use.

Each attribute has its own specialized scoring pipeline — thirteen in total across the Impacter 8 and the CASEL 5.
Rubrics specify observable markers — causal reasoning connectives, perspective integration, temporal linking — before the model sees any data.
The focus is the presence and quality of the attribute, never vocabulary level or sentence complexity — across 90+ languages.
Go Deeper On Linguistic Architecture → ↓ How Impacter Measures Human Skills (PDF)
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Where the Wheel Leads Next

Parent Page

What We Measure

The Full Measurement Picture. How The 8 Anchor Attributes Fit Inside Impacter's Human Skills Analytics.

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Linguistic Architecture

The full depth on linguistic signals. How thirteen specialized pipelines turn authentic voice into rubric-aligned scores.

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The Payoff

School-Based Outcomes

The wheel's outcome mapping — what growth in each quad predicts for engagement, belonging, and achievement.

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