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Transparency

This administration has carried forward the NCLB emphasis on transparency and accountability. Since before NCLB became law, and long before the Obama administration made transparency a standard for all public programs. Ripple Effects had in place a groundbreaking, written policy of accountability for outcomes.

This is our guarantee: If our program is used as directed, it will result in measurable, positive impact on academic achievement, and/or connection to school, and or behavior (however your school or district measures those things); or clients can receive a full refund of the price of the software.

In the eleven years since we have made this offer, only one client has asked for a refund.

Ripple Effects can ensure positive outcomes because it is firmly grounded in a well documented, multi-disciplinary theory base, and uses only practices that have been proven to work in live instructional settings. Eleven studies in a wide range of educational settings have shown it works. Even before those formal evaluations began, the guarantee was in place. Why? Because Ripple Effects believes that educators are entrusted with children’s lives. To put students’ school and life success at risk by using untested methods, especially in the sensitive areas of social-emotional learning, makes no more sense than to allow the use of faulty seat belts, and justify that choice in terms of the good intentions of those who make them.

Ripple Effects is transparent about the source of its theory base, the results from outcome studies, and real world client experiences. It has built the capacity for transparent reporting of learner usage into its software, and is in a collaborative relationship with AIR, the country’s premier educational research organization to continually expand our understandings of the potential and limitations of our program, and to publish this knowledge base as it arises.