Our Values
These values drive our work — in how we design our services,
how we partner, and how we define success.
These values drive our work — in how we design our services,
how we partner, and how we define success.
Educational justice will be achieved when all students are successful – including students of color, students from low-income communities, English learners, and students with disabilities. Our work addresses gaps in educator understanding and practice, pairing collaborative support with high expectations and excellent first instruction so all students have every opportunity to learn. This is our foremost value.
Our work must have a measurable impact, improving adult learning and outcomes for the students we serve – especially for students of color, students from low-income communities, English learners, and students with disabilities.
Our work is most meaningful if it is sustainable. For lasting impact, we work in collaboration with our partners to help build capacity to carry the work forward.
We root our work in evidence-based practices, learning from our partners and their communities to co-design scalable strategies for addressing the fundamentals of teaching and learning.
Explore our services to learn about how we pursue these values in our work.
We partner with educators to co-design strategies for great teaching and learning that are rooted in evidence and tailored to your learner community, building your capacity as we work together.
We support implementation of these strategies through high-quality, evidence-based, and experienced professional services and project management – classroom to boardroom.
We design scalable solutions, elevating leaders and working with you to develop sustainable practices for continuous improvement and effective, ongoing management.
We engage in a collaborative user-centered design process, informed by the National Equity Project and Stanford d.school’s “Liberatory Design Process” and influenced by the Carnegie Foundation’s Improvement Science:
We partner with educators to design and implement solutions to their greatest challenges in achieving educational justice.
We envision a future where our public schools provide our most underserved students with an outstanding education.
Bay Area School Reform Collaborative (BASRC) Founded
BASRC becomes Springboard
Springboard becomes Pivot Learning
Pivot Learning acquires CORE Learning
Pivot Learning, founded as BASRC in 1995, has a 25+ year history of partnering with educators to design solutions to their greatest challenges. In our first five years, we outpaced our peers in demonstrating that our services lead to greater educational success for students (Stanford University), and we have continued to demonstrate excellence every year since as we have evolved to meet each critical moment.
The acquisition of CORE Learning in 2017 brought together two evidence-driven education service providers for schools in California and the nation. We continue to expand our services to support districts and schools as they strive to serve the changing needs of their communities.