When the funder asks how the whole school is doing
Your pupils' work is real, but it lives in dozens of separate portfolios. When a funder or regulator wants one clear answer about the school, you end up building it by hand. jitguru lets that answer grow out of the evaluations you are already doing.
Picture the email. Your grant renewal is due, or a regulator wants to understand how your school shows learning. The question sounds simple: how do you know your pupils are mastering what you say they are?
You know the answer. It is in the portfolios, the projects, the conversations. But it is spread across every pupil's folder, in a different shape for each subject. Nobody reading that request has time to open forty portfolios, and you do not have a test score to hand them.
What the scramble costs you
So you build a report from scratch. Evenings go to summarizing, picking examples and explaining your approach to someone who has never seen a mastery-based classroom.
It costs more than time. A report you wrote about your own school is easy to read as a sales pitch, however careful you were. And if the funding or approval rides on it, the sleep goes too.
How jitguru builds the answer as you go
jitguru is a network that connects mastery-based microschools with independent evaluators, called judges. The school-level evidence comes out of the work you would do anyway.
First, 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 the posting or follow a direct link, and apply.
Next, you review applicants, or browse the evaluator pool yourself, and add the judges you choose to your board.
Then you create one evaluation per pupil, linking that pupil's portfolio of evidence to a judge. The judge assesses the work against your school's own standard. Not a standardized test, and not a rubric jitguru made up.
The judge's outcome becomes a Codex: a narrative for the pupil and their family, never a numeric score.
Finally, those Codices roll up into a school-level Attestation, written for funders and regulators. The one document they asked for is built from independent evaluations of real pupil work.
What changes when the email arrives
Next time a funder or regulator asks how the school is doing, you are not starting from a blank page. You hand over an Attestation drawn from the evaluations already completed during the year.
Your standard stays yours. Your pupils' families get narratives they can actually read. And the people deciding your school's future see evidence that independent experts produced, not a report you wrote about yourself.
If your renewal season starts with a weekend of report writing, take a look at how jitguru works.