Not all written competencies are created equal! As educators, we’re all striving towards creating competency-based learning experiences for students - and the first step in that process is creating a set of high quality competencies that are observable and assessable. The Mastery Transcript Consortium works with our members who’ve built and shared competency sets with our network of schools. This interactive session will support you in building high quality competencies using field-tested design principles that you can take back and apply to your own design process back at school.

How do you know if you are moving the needle with personalization based on evidence and scalability? It's not about putting all kids in front of a device at the same time on an adaptive learning tool to collect data. It's about a fundamental shift from the what to the who to emphasize personal ownership of learning in alignment with high agency strategies and differentiated supports. Join practitioner Nicki Slaugh from Quest Academy Junior High School and trailblazer Eric Sheninger for an exploration of proven strategies on how to improve outcomes through personalization. They will share how site-based actions combined with job-embedded coaching have resulted in evidence-based approaches that can help you improve PCBL or take it to the next level.

Join Kareem Farah (CEO & Co-Founder Modern Classrooms Project), Joey Lee (Chief Learning Officer LiFT Learning), and Erin Ashley (Director of Academics TNTP) as they explore the implementation of personalized, competency-based learning (PCBL) at the classroom, school, and system levels.

Join USBE's Michael Hakkarinen, Katie Hill, and Jennifer Throndsen as they kick off the first-ever Magellan Summit and introduce Utah's updated PCBL Framework.

Empowering students to take ownership of their learning requires that we give students more voice and choice in decisions that impact them at every level of the school. To support learner agency, we need to shift from making decisions ‚for students to making decisions ‚with students.
In this session, you will consider how you can create ongoing opportunities for students to be involved in decisions that impact them from making choices during daily lessons to leading change initiatives in your community.
Facilitator: Erin Ashley, Director of Academics at TNTP
TNTP (The New Teacher Project) is a national nonprofit organization committed to ending the injustice of educational inequality by providing excellent teachers to the students who need them most and by advancing policies and practices that ensure effective teaching in every classroom.

Too often, documentation of learning is seen as a burden, and is most commonly used as an accountability measure. When documentation is used for the purpose of learning, and embedded in the natural flow of work, it transforms into a learning superpower.

Tired of rigid, teacher-centered classes that pass students along without regard for competence? Tired of hearing the buzzwords without a clear picture of how teacher practice can change? Learn from the founder and CEO of the Modern Classrooms Project about how to make a classroom work for all students through effective practices in blended, self-paced, mastery-based instruction.

A panel discussion focused on lessons learned as Juab School District implements PCBL for adult learners. Includes an exploration of Digital Promise Micro-credentials. Led by Dr. Royd Darrington.
Learn more:
https://microcredentials.digitalpromise.org/explore
https://sites.google.com/juabsd.org/jsdinnovates/micro-credentials

This session will highlight the partnership between North Sanpete School District and Marzano Research. Presenters from both organizations will describe PCBL design decisions and the process used to arrive at these decisions. In addition, Marzano Research will share their perspective on system change and the conditions and prcocesses necessary for change to occur.

Learn why and how Competency/Mastery/Proficiency-Based education is transforming schools across the county. An introduction to the shift from time-based factory-model schools to learning-paced schools where learning is the constant and time is the variable.

Drew Schantz from EdElements shares strategies for school leaders to help with the implementation of Personalized, Competency-Based Learning (PCBL).

Drew Schantz from EdElements shares strategies for school boards to help with the implementation of Personalized, Competency-Based Learning (PCBL).

In this session, you will self-assess where you are in your journey to make key PCBL shifts. Identify your strategic aspirations and explore examples of how other schools and districts are doing this work.

You have engaged your stakeholders and developed a vision of your Portrait of a Graduate which includes transferable skills, knowledge, and dispositions. You have socialized the outcomes and created the poster to hang on the walls throughout the district. You have brought together your leadership team to monitor progress on implementation, prepare professional learning offerings, and align learnings to a strategic plan. And questions remain.
How can we bring the vision off the poster on the walls and bring it into our classrooms?
Join LiFT Learning and CBE Solutions for a session focused on how schools and districts can activate and operationalize their Portrait of A Graduate using core components of PCBL and digital portfolios that capture all types of learning. Participants will walk away with strategies, technology recommendations, and direct next steps to successfully operationalize your vision.

You have engaged your stakeholders and developed a vision of your Portrait of a Graduate which includes transferable skills, knowledge, and dispositions. You have socialized the outcomes and created the poster to hang on the walls throughout the district. You have brought together your leadership team to monitor progress on implementation, prepare professional learning offerings, and align learnings to a strategic plan. And questions remain.
How can we bring the vision off the poster on the walls and bring it into our classrooms?
Join LiFT Learning and CBE Solutions for a session focused on how schools and districts can activate and operationalize their Portrait of A Graduate using core components of PCBL and digital portfolios that capture all types of learning. Participants will walk away with strategies, technology recommendations, and direct next steps to successfully operationalize your vision.