Become a certified Powered by Compass school
A Hub for Sharing and Learning
Valor is committed to serving as a catalyst for sharing and learning with other educators across the country. Like you, our school partners know that education should instill purpose and inspiration that lasts long after graduation. Together, we are building stronger school and organizational cultures, clear systems for staff development, joyful and rigorous classrooms, and so much more through integrating our relationship-based framework. We have two training programs to support leaders in education on their journey toward relationship-based schools and leadership: Compass Camp and Compass-in-Leadership.
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“Circle has become like family to me”
– Scholar at STRIVE Prep, a certified Powered by Compass school
Compass School Partner, Collegiate Hall, shares with their community the impact that Compass Circles have had on their staff and students’ wellbeing.
Network partner STRIVE Prep showcases the impact of Compass Circles for their community.
Partnerships Program
Valor’s training, coaching, and credentialing program for select schools to adopt The Compass Model.
COACHING
You’ll get direct training and support from our Network Leadership Coaches throughout your three-stage implementation plan.
CURRICULUM
You’ll gain access to our entire playbook for the Compass model.
COMMUNITY
You won’t do it alone. Through our cohort model, you’ll develop deep and lasting relationships with other leaders on their journey to relationship-based schools.
“We don’t learn anything in isolation. We’ve made real friends through this program that are walking hand-in-hand with us through this work.”
KAYLA MONTGOMERY
Gibbs Middle School
Assistant Principal
Your Three-Stage Implementation Plan
Community Foundation
Partners will receive a full year of training and practice – Year 0 – before launching Compass school-wide. In the Community Foundation Year, we will be preparing school leaders to take ‘Compass Stance’ of kindness and curiosity as they guide faculty to make the shift towards a commitment-based culture. Your school will work to create your own community commitments and the school’s Powered by Compass team will be trained to facilitate Compass Circles for adult staff.
Implementation
The implementation stage is focused on the hard work of implementing Compass in schools, training and supporting teachers to be Circle Facilitators, and maintaining a cycle of continuous improvement to meet specific goals for Circle fidelity and quality. Partners will spend two years in the implementation stage while receiving direct training and coaching from Valor’s Powered by Compass team.
Credentialed
Once baseline metrics for a successful launch of Compass are established, partners will move to the third and final stage: becoming a credentialed “Powered by Compass” school. As a “Powered by Compass” school, partners have exclusive access to the most up-to-date curricular resources, advanced Circle facilitator training, and continued education and support in the Compass model.
Is your school ready to start working the Compass? Get in touch
Faculty Impact at Powered by Compass Schools
82% faculty report Compass Circles changes their approach to emotions. 
80% faculty report Compass Circles helps them develop friendships. 
87% faculty report Compass Circle helps them focus. Student Impact at Powered by Compass Schools
90% students report Compass Circles help them understand others.
87% students report Compass Circles show them that what they say and do matters to other people. 
86% students report Compass Circles help them share themselves with others. From Our Partners
Our Organizational Partners
Valor is partnering with Transcend, an education nonprofit that accelerates innovation in school design, and the education and human development research team at University of Virginia, to further develop, codify, and assess Valor’s model.
our School Partners
Since 2017, Valor has partnered with a small number of schools across the nation in their adoption of the Compass model. We are grateful to our school partners who have dedicated time, resources, and energy in providing comprehensive human development to their scholars through the Compass model.
Our Philanthropy Partners
Valor and Transcend would like to thank our philanthropy partners who have supported this work with gifts over $50k since 2019:
