C2IT Accelerator · Sierra Outerbridge, PhD
Learning science and operator experience for EdTech platforms. Not engagement metrics. Evidence about learning, from the data your platform already collects.
About
I spent three studies and 1,405 students testing whether the behavior a learning platform measures tells you if learning is happening. In my studies, it didn’t.
That finding is why this practice exists. I pair it with seven years running a learning organization: a coaching practice I co-founded, and the executive seat on a school built from the ground up.
For EdTech teams, I read the log data your platform already collects and turn it into evidence you can take into a district conversation or a funding round.
More about Sierra and C2ITThe evidence
Three cases, each answering the question a client asks before handing anyone their data or their students.
What can my data actually tell us about learning?
In every study, time on task could not tell learners apart. The clearest signal sat in the sequence and structure of the work, not in how much of it there was.
Have you built something like this yourself?
Soft launched in 2019, fully launched in 2020. A co-founded academic coaching practice: a method that teaches content alongside executive functioning, a team trained on it, and the operations to run it every week.
Have you had to live with the decisions you recommend?
No building, no license, no enrollment, no staff. A phased build the school can finance, a compliance checklist that gates opening, and an enrollment model tied to licensed capacity.
Would you trust your own data enough to run a company on it?
Before I offered this to anyone else, I built it for my own company. It follows practice test scores over time, session attendance, time spent, and homework, with two proportion scores: one for metacognitive monitoring and one for confusion or doubt. We ask better questions in our sessions because we know where our students are changing their minds.
Time on task told me far less than I expected about what happened during it.Sierra Outerbridge, PhD
Ardiendo outcome figures reflect cohorts served through 2026; outcome tracking is being rebuilt and figures will be restated when that work completes. National comparison: ACT, Inc., Six Things You Should Know about ACT Score Gains from Retesting (2022). School client details withheld by agreement.
Research: Outerbridge, S. (2025). Doctoral dissertation, University of Central Florida. stars.library.ucf.edu/etd2024/564.
How it works
A 30-minute call about what you’re trying to learn, and which engagement fits.
One document to review, sign, and pay: the scope, the investment, and the timeline in one place.
You get access to your client dashboard and a short intake. Then we meet to set the questions the work will answer.
Start here
A 30-minute call. Bring the question you’ve been carrying.