Try-Alls
For regional education leaders
Technology should earn the investment.
When a school adopts new technology, students and teachers invest their time in making it work. If implementation stalls or the solution falls short, that time is gone—and the challenge the school set out to solve remains.
Districts need evidence they can use to judge whether a promising solution fits their students, what successful implementation requires and whether the results justify further investment.
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Your regional organization can help them get those answers.
Bring districts together around a challenge they share. Connect them with independent university researchers. Organize a supported evaluation that produces useful findings under local conditions.
Your organization can make that work possible across districts that would otherwise need to arrange it separately. Give school leaders the research support, implementation insight and local evidence to make decisions they can explain to their boards and communities.
A practical way to lead that change
That’s the purpose of Try-Alls.
One shared district challenge. Three promising solutions. A coordinated regional evaluation with supported implementation, local data and independent research. Districts join the solution track suited to their needs and capacity.
Your organization leads. IDG helps recruit participants and manage the collaboration. Our custom platform supports delivery. A qualified university partner leads the agreed evaluation. Districts receive the evidence and retain the decision.
We’re seeking a founding regional host. Start with one shared strategic challenge.
Coordinated by IDG · Delivered through our custom platformIndependent university evaluation
Participation is not an endorsement.
No obligation to purchase.
From shared challenge to informed decision
How it works
Start with the decision districts need to make. Agree what the investigation must answer, what participation requires and how the findings will be used.
Choose a shared challenge.
Identify a priority several districts share. Review the existing evidence and select three suitable solutions for separate evaluation tracks. IDG helps assemble participants and a research partner around the question. Districts do not have to implement all three tools.
Run a supported Try-All.
Agree the measures, responsibilities and conditions for changing or stopping the evaluation before it begins. Districts receive implementation support; IDG coordinates the work through our custom platform and the university partner evaluates the evidence.
Review the evidence and decide.
Examine the results alongside implementation demands, costs and limitations. Each district decides whether to adopt, investigate further, change course or walk away. There is no obligation to purchase.
Exploration with a clear purpose
Give districts a defensible basis for their next decision.
Students’ learning time is too valuable for an investment without a clear purpose, a supported plan and a credible way to evaluate results.
A Try-All is designed to make uncertainty explicit and manageable. Findings may support adoption, reveal a poor fit or show where further investigation is needed. Participating districts receive them regardless of outcome. A credible reason to proceed—and an equally credible reason not to. Participation is not a product endorsement, and no district is obligated to buy.
The people behind the work
You bring the member need.
We help organize the work.
Jesse Leib and Corey Murray bring K–12 relationships and experience building education businesses to the practical work of recruiting participants, coordinating partners and managing delivery. Your organization remains the trusted resource for its districts.
Together, we turn a shared district priority into a scoped program: the right participants, an appropriate evaluator, clear responsibilities and funding for the work. The evaluator controls the methods and conclusions; districts retain their purchasing authority.
We’re seeking a founding regional host. Partners, evaluation scope, participant workload, funding and timing will be agreed before launch.
More value from the platform, all year
Make your expertise a year-round member benefit.
The conference ends. A new leader arrives. A training requirement comes due. Your members still need somewhere to turn.
Beyond a Try-All, our custom platform can give your districts a learning destination under your organization’s name—built around the expertise, resources and relationships they already trust. Extend the value of work you’ve already invested in, and make that support available when members need it.
Keep valuable learning in use.
Turn conference sessions, webinar recordings and required training into focused courses members can find, complete and revisit. Reach the people who couldn’t be in the room.
Help new leaders find their footing.
Build onboarding and learning paths around the decisions members face. Give experienced educators and veteran leaders a way to share practical knowledge through your organization.
Show the value members use.
Bring enrollment, completion and course certificates into one view. See which learning members use, recognize their progress and give your board a clearer picture of the service you deliver.
Bring more of your member services together.
Start with evaluation and learning. Add credentialing, licensure or other workflows as your needs require, with custom work scoped separately. One responsive platform can replace fragmented tools and help your team manage more of the member experience in one place.
A Try-All helps districts make a consequential decision. The platform gives your organization a way to keep serving them long after the findings are delivered.
Before we talk
A few practical questions.
Who can host a Try-All?
ESCs, BOCES, regional education associations and similar organizations that can convene districts around a shared need. We start by identifying a service owner and a feasible group of participants.
What gets evaluated?
A promising solution matched to a shared district challenge. We secure a qualified university evaluator for each program and scope the research to the question, resources and timeframe. Findings may address implementation, organizational results or student outcomes; research depth follows the design.
How do you protect independence?
We agree selection criteria and measures in advance, disclose funding and commercial relationships, and use fixed fees unrelated to findings or purchases. The evaluator controls the conclusions; vendors cannot suppress unfavorable findings. Each district retains its purchasing decision.
Who pays?
The regional host licenses the platform separately. Each provider pays a participation fee for coordination and delivery, plus a separately scoped independent research fee. The host receives agreed compensation for its program role. Districts would pay no Try-All participation fee, but commit staff time and implementation resources. Scope and costs are agreed before anyone commits; compensation does not depend on favorable findings or purchases.
What happens after an inquiry?
Jesse or Corey will respond to explore your member need and whether a first Try-All is practical. If there is a fit, we develop a scoped plan covering participants, evaluation, workload, funding and next steps.
Share the idea with your team
Take the conversation further.
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Shape the first program
What challenge is your region ready to take on?
Tell us which consequential technology decision your districts are facing. We’ll explore the question, the participants and what a credible, practical first Try-All would require.
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