Two of the ten system functions become project-controls disciplines here: Sensing becomes reporting and performance measurement, Communicating becomes stakeholder communication.
The most pivotal module — participants will design the KPIs the school will use to track Climate Action Plan implementation after the programme ends.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, participants will be able to:
- Understand what a KPI is and why measurement matters
- Distinguish between leading indicators (early warning) and lagging indicators (after the fact)
- Design SMART KPIs for each pillar of the school Climate Action Plan
- Understand how a project dashboard works and what good reporting looks like
- Learn the principles of RAG status (Red, Amber, Green) reporting
- Understand stakeholder mapping: who needs to know, what do they need to know, and when
- Practise presenting data clearly and honestly
- Connect the Sensing function to Project Controls Analyst and the Communicating function to Stakeholder Manager
Sections
- 5.1 Where Are We?
- 5.2 What Gets Measured Gets Done
- 5.3 Designing KPIs for the School
- 5.4 The Dashboard: Telling the Story
- 5.5 Who Needs to Know?
- 5.6 Honest Reporting
- 5.7 Building Your Dashboard
Cross-curriculum
- KS4 Maths — Statistics (charts, dashboards, data presentation)
- KS4 English — Transactional and functional writing (reports, briefings)
- Life and Work — Speaking, listening, and communicating (presenting to stakeholders)
- Relating Intelligently — Module 5: Ethics of Relating (honest reporting; the ethics of how data is presented)
Suggested evidence types
- KPI suite for the school Climate Action Plan (5+ KPIs across multiple pillars)
- Dashboard mock-up (digital or hand-drawn)
- Stakeholder map for Climate Action Plan reporting
- Reflection on a time the learner has been on the receiving end of misleading data presentation
Verse-ality alignment
The “honest reporting” section connects directly to consent gates and memory non-capture in the Verse-ality framework. Stakeholders consent to certain framings of data; the reporter has an ethical responsibility to surface what is happening, not just what looks good. Same principle that AI agents must apply when surfacing information to humans.