Real Questions, From a Company Measuring What Matters.
IMPACTER is a Human Skills Analytics company. We turn authentic student voice into rubric-aligned evidence of durable skills, at district and state scale. For Fall 2026, we're bringing four scoped Project-Based Learning challenges, for-credit internships, and an Expo table to the HGSE community.
Pick Your Year.
Our first HGSE connection: Anderson Le (Ed.M. '21) joins IMPACTER's product team. The partnership begins.
Four faculty-led PBL courses, four scoped challenges: evaluation design, system redesign, learning assets, and student-facing prototypes.
Spring & Fall 2027 project slate in development.
Four Courses. Four Live Challenges. Scoped to Fit.
Each proposal is scoped to a single Fall 2026 HGSE course, written against the course's own description, with a named IMPACTER owner and a full resource kit. Full detail lives on one page. Open any card below.
Designing the Accountability Layer for California's School Behavioral Health System
A state-funded public dashboard measures school behavioral health through student voice. The measurement engine exists; the accountability layer does not.
From Poster to Signal: What Has to Change for a Portrait of a Graduate to Mean Something
Every Portrait district prints the same eight words on a wall. Redesign the system, classroom to policy, so it becomes a real graduation signal.
The Interpretation Gap: Learning Assets That Help Educators Trust Voice-Based Evidence
A teacher gets rubric-aligned scores on skills they've never graded. Build the calibration cases and modules that close the gap.
What the Student Sees: Designing the Return of Evidence to the Learner
A student speaks for ninety seconds and gets a score on a capability nobody's ever graded. Prototype and test what they should see.
Three More Ways We're Showing Up for HGSE.
Anderson Le, Ed.M. '21.
Anderson joined IMPACTER's product team as a Senior Consultant, and is now IMPACTER's point of contact for the HGSE community: the person who can speak firsthand to what these placements look like, since he made the jump himself. Graduate-level judgment applied to live product, measurement, and partnership questions, on a team small enough that the work ships.
- Scoped projects with a named mentor and a real deliverable
- Structured to satisfy HGSE for-credit internship requirements
- Remote-friendly, with a Cambridge-based product builder on the team
- Panels & workshops: we'll show up for HGSE career-preparation programming, not just recruiting
Where interns plug in
Start a conversation
Tell Anderson your program, your for-credit requirements, and the kind of work you want to do.
Email Anderson →Meet Team IMPACTER · Thursday, August 27.
We're at the Expo to meet incoming and continuing Ed.M. students, with real internship placements, real project work, and an alum who's made the jump.
What We're Bringing.
- For-credit internship placements for the 2026–27 academic year
- The four Fall 2026 PBL project scopes, in print: take one to your faculty
- A live demo: watch student voice become rubric-aligned evidence in 90 seconds
- An honest conversation about what EdTech startups hire for in the era of agentic tools
Can't make it?
The whole slate lives on this site. Browse the PBL scopes or reach out directly.
Browse PBL projects →
Authentic Voice In.
Decision-Grade Evidence Out.
The Question & the Answer, Side by Side.
This is the entire assessment process: a custom question built from a district's own Portrait language, and one student's authentic, unscripted answer. No survey between them. Real footage, real transcript, real rubric. Press play.
"Tell me about a time you were kind to someone, or someone was kind to you. What happened next?"
A surprise birthday card for a first-year teacher, and what it turned out to mean.
Kindness As A Word
Talks mainly about being kind in general terms; focuses on self; gives limited examples of helping others.
Kindness As An Example
Shares basic examples of helping others; notices when others show kindness; mentions how actions affect people.
Kindness As Action With Impact
Tells specific stories of meaningful kindness; explains clearly how actions affect others; demonstrates awareness of impact.
Kindness As Community Change
Tells detailed stories about lifting others up; reflects thoughtfully on becoming kinder; shares examples of lasting effects.