Deeper Learning 2025

A competency-based paradigm offers a promising shift from traditional letter grades, to a system that values students' strengths and growth over time. Making this shift requires more than just new systems—it demands a process of "unlearning" ingrained beliefs and practices. This new paradigm calls for educators and leaders who deeply understand the shifts and can compellingly communicate them. This session will make visible the alternative: a competency-based approach, by looking at models of assessment and reporting structures from schools and networks including Big Picture Learning, Mastery Transcript Consortium, One Stone, Bostonia Global, and Spring Lake Park Public Schools. Participants will develop a personal assessment philosophy and prepare for conversations about assessment and grading beliefs and practices. This workshop is designed for all educators and leaders who are interested in reimagining assessment, grading and reporting in their context. We anticipate that this will be most relevant for teacher-leaders, site leaders, and system/district leaders.

Lunch is included in each deep dive.