RESEARCH & EVALUATION
THRIVE‘s research and evaluation efforts are focused on determining the impact of THRIVE’s work on school/district culture, educator experience, and teacher retention.
Broadly, we seek answers to the following questions:
RESEARCHERS

Melissa Wetzel, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
College of Education

DATA PRIVACY & PARTICIPANT CONFIDENTIALITY
The THRIVE research team prioritizes participant privacy and consent. User responses are confidential and only accessible to the THRIVE research team at The University of Texas at Austin; individual and/or identifiable information collected for research and evaluation purposes is not shared with districts, schools, or participants’ colleagues. Findings are reported only in aggregate to support improvement efforts, or de-identified using pseudonyms if shared in research publications and presentations. Guided by a human-centered approach, our team uses data to understand systems and experiences– not to evaluate individuals.








