Name: Beyond Points: Implementing Competency-Based Grading and Employability Skills Across Career Pathways
Start: 2026-08-04T09:00:00-0700
End: 2026-08-04T09:45:00-0700

Beyond Points: Implementing Competency-Based Grading and Employability Skills Across Career Pathways

Tuesday August 4, 2026 9:00am - 9:45am PDT

Birch Ballroom

How do we ensure grades in Career and Technical Education truly reflect skill mastery, workplace readiness, and student growth? This session highlights how Sno-Isle TECH Skills Center and New Market Skills Center are transitioning from traditional grading to competency-based grading (CBG) systems designed to improve clarity, consistency, and equity across programs. Partnering with SREB, both centers defined shared employability skills, performance levels, and descriptors applicable across pathways while preserving flexibility for program-specific competencies. Through teacher leadership teams and full-staff collaboration, each center developed its own employability rubric, building shared ownership, stronger expectations, and alignment with industry standards. Participants will engage in an interactive learning experience that includes analyzing sample rubrics, participating in calibration conversations, and applying guiding questions to their own schools or districts. Attendees will leave with practical tools, implementation strategies, and a professional learning framework to support the transition to competency-based grading in their own CTE programs.

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Danielle Morton

CTE Leadership Coach, Southern Regional Education Board (SREB)

Danielle Morton, with over 30 years in education, is a champion for CTE and empowering school improvement. Danielle serves as a School Improvement Leadership Coach at the Southern Regional Education Board, guiding schools towards excellence. But her heart beats loudest for Career... Read More →

Tuesday August 4, 2026 9:00am - 9:45am PDT
Birch Ballroom

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