Truly Significant with Dr. Nicole Alioto....transforming schools proactively measuring "the right data"

Dr. Nicole Alioto, Social Psychologists, looks at what makes school districts transformative, changing the lives of the students and improving our culture. 

Dr. Alioto, educator, data expert and author of You Can Measure Anything!: An Educator’s Guide to Measuring What Is Hard to Define (May 2026), argues that the problem is not a lack of data. It’s that schools often try to measure these outcomes before clearly defining what they actually mean.   She explains:  

"Morale" means something different to a first-year teacher, a veteran educator, and a building principal. "Trust" looks different in a high-performing school and one in crisis. Until a district builds a shared definition — one developed with input from the people the data are supposed to represent — any survey it runs is measuring something. Just not necessarily the thing it thinks it’s measuring.

Enjoy this insightful conversation on a truly significant opportunity to shape our future generations.

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