Values
Communication Norms
Spending Guidelines
100

This value describes working together toward a shared vision by contributing ideas, skills, and efforts.

What is Collaboration?

100

The maximum number of hours within which you should respond to an email or calendar invite on a workday.

What is 24 hours?

100

The per diem allowance for a full travel day.

What is $75?

200

This value focuses on providing partners with the learning opportunities and resources needed to attain transformative results for MLLs.

What is Access?

200

You need a quick answer from a colleague and notice they're online. This is the preferred channel.

What is Google Chat?

200

The general maximum nightly hotel rate, including taxes, for standard business travel.

What is $150?

300

This value reflects a commitment to ongoing learning and adapting practices while integrating research-based best practices.

What is Growth Orientation?

300

You're going on vacation next week. These are the two things you must do to communicate your absence to the team.

What is add it to the Ensemble Team Calendar AND turn on an out-of-office email?

300

You're renting a car for a work trip. The agent offers insurance, GPS, and satellite radio. What do you accept and what do you decline?

What is decline insurance (Ensemble is covered) and decline GPS and satellite radio (personal add-ons are not reimbursed)?

400

This value prioritizes and validates the well-being, identities, and lived experiences of the team to cultivate authentic partnerships.

What is Human-Centered?

400

A colleague asks you via Google Chat to complete a report by Friday. According to Ensemble norms, what should you ask them to do?

What is put it in Asana?

400

The maximum allowance for a replacement laptop under Ensemble's hardware depreciation schedule.

What is $1,500?

500

Your team has been working with a district for two years. You notice student benchmark data is improving AND teachers are using new strategies more consistently. This Ensemble value is being achieved.

What is Transformative Results?

500

You sent a colleague an email with three action items. They replied "thanks, got it!" You later find out two tasks never happened. According to communication norms, what should you have done differently?

What is create and assign Asana tasks for each action item instead of relying on email?

500

After a work conference in San Diego, you fly directly to Nashville for a personal vacation instead of returning home to Austin. A round-trip Austin–San Diego would have cost $168. Your actual itinerary cost $288. How much does Ensemble reimburse?

What is $168?

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