When no one on staff can judge your pupil's best work
Your pupil has finished something remarkable in a subject your team cannot properly assess. Finding a qualified outside expert usually means weeks of cold emails and favours. Here is a way to post the need once and let the right evaluators come to you.
Picture a pupil who has spent the term building a portfolio on stream ecology: field notes, water samples, a written analysis. It is ready for a milestone review. You read it twice and admit the truth: nobody at your school knows enough to say whether it meets the standard.
So you start writing emails. A university department that never answers. A friend of a friend who works in environmental consulting. A parent's colleague who says maybe next month. Each message has to explain who you are, what you need and whether you can pay.
What the search costs you
Evenings, first. A small team has no one whose job is to recruit outside experts, so the work lands on a founder or guide who already has a full day.
Then momentum. The pupil is waiting, the milestone slides, and the work that felt finished starts to feel forgotten.
And goodwill. Asking favours with no clear terms on format or compensation strains the few contacts you have, and you will need them again next term.
Post your first evaluation need
How jitguru finds the evaluator for you
jitguru is a network that connects mastery-based microschools with independent evaluators, called judges. Instead of chasing people one at a time, you describe the need once.
You post what you need evaluated: the subject, the credentials you want, the format, the compensation, the milestone, and one of three rubric shapes. Evaluators browse postings and apply, or you send a direct link to someone you already have in mind.
You review the applicants. If you would rather look yourself, you can browse the evaluator pool directly. Either way, you add the judges you choose to your school's board.
Then you create an evaluation for the pupil, linking their portfolio of evidence to the judge. The judge assesses the work against your school's own standard, not a standardized test and not a rubric jitguru defines.
The outcome comes back as a Codex: a narrative written for the pupil and family, never a numeric score.
What changes for you
The next time a pupil goes deep into a subject you cannot judge, you do not reach for your contact list. You write one posting with clear terms, and qualified people apply.
Your judges stay on your board, so the expert who reviewed this portfolio can be there for the next one. And the pupil gets a real response to their work while it still matters to them.