# Operating Environment Intelligence (K-12 District Edition) > Operating Environment Intelligence, K-12 District edition. 12.5 hours of self-paced learning. $897 for 365 days of access. Offered by Mission Ready Academy, Mission Success Solutions, LLC. URL: https://academy.missionsuccesssolutions.com/courses/operating-environment-intelligence-k12_district Audience edition: K-12 District. Plan tier: All-Access. Length: 12.5 hours. Passing score: 80%. Price: $897 for 365 days. Description: Operating Environment Intelligence for superintendents and cabinets: scan the district's environment and brief a siting or program decision the board can act on. Every consequential decision is made inside an environment the organization does not control. This program teaches a repeatable discipline for reading that environment, judging what it means, and giving a decision-maker something to act on. Nineteen skills in five modules follow five pillars: Frame, Scan, Connect, Judge, and Deliver. You bring a live decision from your own organization, and by the end you hold a completed estimate on it, not notes about a method. It is not a forecasting course and it does not teach research collection. Mercer Bend Independent School District, 900 employees across four attendance zones, has ninety days to recommend whether to open, partner, or decline on a health-careers academy in a newly annexed growth corridor, while its intended hospital partner announces a merger. Target audience: Superintendents and cabinets conducting environmental scanning for strategic plans, bond programs, boundary changes, and program siting. You bring a live decision from your own organization and work it through the whole program. This edition's scenarios, examples, and vocabulary are set in a school district. The objectives and standards are the same in every edition. Outcomes -- what a learner will be able to do: - Frame an assigned analytic task as a bounded decision, scope it, and produce a rated assumption ledger. - Conduct a complete eight-domain BEARINGS Scan, grade all sources, card all findings, and produce a ranked Blank Map. - Build a cited Link Grid from a card set, run three-order consequence chains, score available leverage points, and classify changes as drift or jolt. - Test evidence against competing explanations, run a structured bias sweep, assign calibrated confidence, and convert findings into so-what lines. - Produce a one-page estimate, build a watchboard, deliver a ninety-second verbal read, and set a refresh rhythm. Prerequisites: - None. Modules (5): ## Module 1. Framing the Question (M1) Terminal Learning Objective. Action: Frame an assigned analytic task as a bounded decision, scope it, and produce a rated assumption ledger. Condition: Given facilitated instruction, the Participant Guide, the case study packet, and a self-selected live analytic task from the participant's own work. Standard: The participant produces a completed Four Corners worksheet whose decision statement contains a verb and at least two named options, a named decider, a deadline with a stated anchoring event, and at least two deal-breakers; a Scope Box with all four edges and at least one reasoned exclusion; and an Assumption Ledger of at least eight entries in which every load-bearing row carries a confidence basis, a test with a named owner, and a trigger. Module length: 2.5 hours. Lessons: - L-1 Framing the Question (interactive, 150 minutes, required) ## Module 2. Scanning the Environment (M2) Terminal Learning Objective. Action: Conduct a complete eight-domain BEARINGS Scan, grade all sources, card all findings, and produce a ranked Blank Map. Condition: Given facilitated instruction, the Participant Guide, scan sheets, a supplied mixed source set, and the participant's own framed task from Lesson 1. Standard: The participant produces scan entries for all eight domains including explicit unknowns, a coverage judgment for every domain, at least ten Finding Cards in which no observation field contains inference and every card carries a paired source grade and both dates, and a Blank Map in which every gap is phrased as an answerable question and the top three carry named owners and dates. Module length: 2.5 hours. Lessons: - L-2 Scanning the Environment (interactive, 150 minutes, required) ## Module 3. Connecting the Domains (M3) Terminal Learning Objective. Action: Build a cited Link Grid from a card set, run three-order consequence chains, score available leverage points, and classify changes as drift or jolt. Condition: Given facilitated instruction, the Participant Guide, the participant's own card set from Lesson 2, and the case study card set. Standard: The participant produces a Link Grid in which every populated cell cites a card ID and carries direction and strength, with row and column totals computed and at least one coupled pair named; a three-order Then-What Chain whose change statement carries direction and magnitude and whose second order names actors and responses; a Leverage Read selecting exactly two points with reach cited to the grid; and a Drift and Jolt classification in which drift entries carry rate and threshold and jolt entries carry trigger and precursors. Module length: 2.5 hours. Lessons: - L-3 Connecting the Domains (interactive, 150 minutes, required) ## Module 4. Judging the Picture (M4) Terminal Learning Objective. Action: Test evidence against competing explanations, run a structured bias sweep, assign calibrated confidence, and convert findings into so-what lines. Condition: Given facilitated instruction, the Participant Guide, the participant's own card set and link grid, and the case study evidence set. Standard: The participant produces a Rival Reads matrix with at least three non-straw-man explanations, non-diagnostic evidence struck, and a named discriminator routed to the Blank Map; a completed six-trap sweep in which every hit carries a recorded correction; confidence bands with stated bases in which findings and projections are banded separately; and so-what lines following the fixed pattern with at least one finding explicitly dropped. Module length: 2.5 hours. Lessons: - L-4 Judging the Picture (interactive, 150 minutes, required) ## Module 5. Delivering the Decision (M5) Terminal Learning Objective. Action: Produce a one-page estimate, build a watchboard, deliver a ninety-second verbal read, and set a refresh rhythm. Condition: Given facilitated instruction, the Participant Guide, all prior module outputs for the participant's live task, and a timed delivery partner. Standard: The participant produces a one-page estimate whose recommendation appears in the first three sentences, whose so-whats each carry a band, and whose gaps block names owners and dates; a Watchboard of six to ten observable indicators each with threshold, named owner, and pre-agreed action; a verbal read delivered in ninety seconds or less containing all five blocks in order; and a Re-Scan Rhythm assigning an interval to all eight domains. Module length: 2.5 hours. Lessons: - L-5 Delivering the Decision (interactive, 150 minutes, required) ## Enrollment Buy this course alone for $897, or take it under any subscription plan that includes the All-Access tier. Organizations buy seat licenses on purchase order. - [This course](https://academy.missionsuccesssolutions.com/courses/operating-environment-intelligence-k12_district) - [The program, all editions](https://academy.missionsuccesssolutions.com/programs/operating-environment-intelligence) ## Provider Mission Ready Academy is the training platform of Mission Success Solutions, LLC, an SBA VetCert-certified SDVOSB management consulting firm in San Angelo, TX. UEI SS9DJDSLXML7. CAGE 19ZV8. Every program is original work by the firm. A Certificate of Completion with a serial number and a public verification page, issued when every required lesson is complete. It states the hours of structured learner time completed. 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