About Us
The JCPS Deeper Learning team
The Deeper Learning team collaborates with individual teachers, professional learning communities, schools, and district departments to support the shift towards more learner-centered experiences for every student. They aim to provide comprehensive assistance to all parties involved in the education process, ensuring that students receive the best possible learning experiences and achieve their goals.
A brief history of Deeper Learning in JCPS
Deeper learning happens when learners are deeply engaged in meaningful, more PERSONalized learning experiences that they “own,” where they grow capacities to make a difference, and where they create beautiful, impactful work that can demonstrate the growth of vital capacities, skills, dispositions, and knowledge needed for life. Deeper Learning deemphasizes educational strategies that are primarily done TO or FOR learners and emphasizes educational strategies primarily done WITH and that come FROM learners. The timeline below showcases some of the work that has happened as we shift toward this learner-centered ecosystem of Deeper Learning.
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2011-2017
50/50 EQOC forms (supporting educators via and educator growth system - evaluation, professional learning, PGES, etc.)
Superintendent Summit on Next Gen Learning (around Who Do We Want Our Kids to Become?)
Vision 2020 Strategic Plan
Deeper Learning Synthesis published
First Annual DL Symposium (2017) (genesis from EQOC and DL Planning Group)
Deeper Learning Team is born
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2018-2019
District focus on public exhibitions of learning, student interviews, student-led conferences, an amalgamation of school-based Success Skill drafts, led and implemented by the Deeper Learning Team, and EQOC-led Performance Assessment micro-credential pilot
Vision 2020 In Action published
New Normal published-DLRT focus on learning experiences and environments that led to the growth of Backpack of Success Skills defense processes, (DLRT focus sustained until 2019)
Initial creation of the 4P End-in-Mind Planning tool and process
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2019-2020
Quality Work Protocol emphasized, DLRT pulled into high schools to support success skill integration and Defense implementation
Project-Based Learning Universe-ity cohort begins with district competency-based ‘certification’.
Personalized Learning Action Network (cohort) begins
First Competency-Based Education cohort begins (partnered with SNHU)
Strategic Plan 2.0 team begins meeting
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2020-2022
PANDEMIC - Deeper Learning Symposium 2020 is canceled, Mini DL Symposium series begins, focuses remained largely the same, in addition to supporting digital learning environments, digital learning experiences for kids and adults,
Second Competency-Based Education cohort begins (partnered with Spalding University and UK)
Future State teams begin meeting
The Assessing Learning and Grading Framework (ALGF) sub-committee formed to begin the transition to learner-centered assessment and grading
DL team internalizes cohort management and certification utilizing school-based coaches
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2022-2023
Student Progression, Promotion, and Graduation (SPP&G) committee begins 3 year plan to move toward Learner-Centered, Competency-Based Assessment (including standards) Assessment and Reporting
50/50 Teaching, Learning, and Assessment Collaborative (TLAC) was formed to collaborate with support from Battelle for Kids
DL Team featured in Monthly Academic Instructional Coach (AIC) Meetings
Co-created coaching questions based on 4P planning tool with AICs
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2023 →
Fifth Annual Deeper Learning Symposium (2023)
Projected: Lab Schools host first site visits
Cohorts resulting in internal competency-based certifications continue and grow
Space Redesigned , first-ever JCPS Deeper Learning cohort to focus on the physical aspects of a Learner-Centered Environment launches
3rd UK Competency-Based Education Cohort
5th and 6th Cohorts of Competency-Based Education with Spalding & 2Revs
DL Team presents at 2023 Aurora Institute Symposium
Our Deeper Learning Design Essentials
JCPS is transforming to a learner-centered, PERSONalized, and competency-based paradigm. We must, therefore, support and challenge every learner, every day, in the growth of their identity, competency, agency, and well-being. Deeper Learning design essentials empower learners to take meaningful action, see the results of their decisions, reflect, and grow. The projects, strategies, and practices leveraged by the deeper learning team focus on agency and equity, engaging learners to partner in decision-making and community building.
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