Ongoing. Robust. In progress. Significant growth. Fully implemented.
That's a district progress report, and none of it is dishonest. It's what you write when the evidence lives somewhere else: a PDF on a principal's desktop, a coaching log in a shared folder, a training agenda in someone's sent mail.
A board member asks what "robust" means for the literacy initiative. Getting an answer takes a follow-up email and nine days. Multiply that by twenty strategies.
Consider what an adjective does in a progress column. It asks the reader to accept a judgment without showing the basis for it. "In progress" tells a board nothing about whether to worry, and deciding where to worry is most of a board's job.
Attach the artifact and the adjective becomes unnecessary. The walkthrough schedule. The October board presentation. The intervention roster with names removed. A photo of the new library on opening day. None of that requires a writer. It only requires a place to put it.
Evidence protects you, too. "Robust" invites a board member to test the word against his own definition. A coaching log with dates on it does not.
Adjectives ask a board to take your word for it, but evidence doesn't have to ask.