For everyone accountable for family and community engagement

Engagement, on the record.

You can't fix the gaps you can't see. CommonGage brings family and community engagement into one view across every site you're accountable for — and shows you exactly where the strategy is breaking, before the year is over.

01 The core

Everything accountability requires, built in

Not a bundle of add-ons. The core reads what your sites already produce and turns it into a record you can stand behind — every organization gets it, no modules required.

Reads what exists

Ingests the calendars, plans, and records your sites already keep — no new workflows forced on busy teams.

Deliverable compliance

Every expectation tracked site by site, with gaps surfaced the moment they open — not discovered when it's too late to fix.

A workbench, not a dashboard

Every report opens in place to the records behind it — the portfolio, a grouping, or a single site — and any axis the data carries becomes something you can group and sort, not just a table to parse.

Framework classification

Every event classified by the capacity outcomes it builds, grounded in published family-school partnership research.

Support records

Family support requests logged and tracked to resolution — the quiet work your teams do, finally visible.

Your structure, mirrored

Group sites the way your organization actually works — regions, networks, zones — and compare across all of it.

02 One picture, three depths

From the whole portfolio to a single event

Scattered activity becomes one coherent picture — and every level of it answers to the level above.

Portfolio

The whole picture

Every site in one view. Where engagement is happening, where it isn't, and where the gaps are.

Groupings
Thistlewood
Amberfield
Ashcombe
Fernhollow

By region

Group sites however your organization is structured. Compare activity and compliance across groupings.

One site
Site Council · Verified
Engagement Calendar · Submitted
Engagement Plan · In progress
Fall Harvest Festival · Feb 12

By site

Every deliverable, every event, every support record for a single site — the detail behind the overview.

03 Depth

More than a dashboard

CommonGage isn't a dashboard you glance at — it's a workbench you work in: log the follow-up, resolve the gap, keep the record moving. Every engagement event is classified by which capacity outcomes it builds — so you can see not just how much is happening, but whether it's building the things that actually deepen partnership.

Grounded in the Dual Capacity-Building Framework for Family-School Partnerships (Mapp & Bergman, 2019).

Capabilities knowledge and skills
Connections social capital and networks
Confidence self-efficacy for engaging
Cognition beliefs about partnership

It's the difference between counting engagement and understanding it — and the record is built to keep growing.

04 Where it's going

Built to grow with the work

The core is what every organization gets, no matter what work it does. Modules are how the record grows beyond that — and four are already live: Expense & In-Kind, Participants, Goals & Measures, and Coverage.

The module tier keeps growing

New modules join the workbench as real organizational work asks for them — not on a fixed roadmap.

Ongoing

Same record, every module

Every module reads into the same accountability record, the same drill-downs, the same reporting — never a separate tool with its own island of data.

By design

Built from the field

What ships next comes from what organizations doing this work actually need, not a features wishlist.

By design

More coming

The module tier isn't finished. More join the same record as the work asks for it.

Coming

Every expansion joins the same record, the same reporting, the same accountability — nothing bolted on as a separate tool.

05 Position

Not another communication tool

Messaging apps help a site talk to its families. CommonGage helps whoever is accountable for engagement see across all of them. It sits alongside the tools you already use — ingesting the calendars, plans, and records they produce — and turns scattered activity into a coherent, auditable picture.

Communication is the input. Accountability is the output.

See what your sites look like in CommonGage

We'll walk you through a live demo and show you how it maps to your organization.

Have a question? Get in touch hello@commongage.com