Measuring What Matters: Assessment With, Not Just Of (Part of the T&L Series)

COST:
$50 Non Series registrants

Free if your school is a registered for the series.  Please reach out to your school contact for the promo code.

Schools Registered for the T&L Series:
Solebury School
George School
Westtown School
Fanny Edel Falk Laboratory School
The Agnes Irwin School
Lancaster Country Day School
St. Joseph's Preparatory School
Academy of Notre Dame de Namur
The Janus School
Winchester Thurston School
St. Peter's School
Ancillae-Assumpta Academy
Germantown Academy
William Penn Charter School
Sanford School
Shady Side Academy
St. Edmund's Academy
Scranton Preparatory School
Villa Maria Academy High School
Friends' Central School

Act 48 Credits are available for this program. 

SESSION DETAILS & SPEAKER BIO

Wednesday, November 11, 2026, 3:45-5pm
Measuring What Matters: Assessment With, Not Just Of
A People-Based Learning workshop for designing more human-centered assessment.
What we choose to assess shapes what gets valued in our classrooms and schools. Yet many of the most important drivers of learning, belonging, curiosity, agency, reflection, resilience, and collaboration, often remain under-measured or invisible. In this interactive workshop based on a  chapter of the book, People-Based Learning, participants will explore how to expand assessment without abandoning rigor. Together, we will examine practical ways to co-create criteria with learners, track growth over time, and design indicators that align with the culture of learning we hope to build. Educators will leave with concrete tools and one redesigned assessment, reflection routine, or set of human-centered indicators they can use in their own context.

Meet the Presenter: Dr. Jane Shore
Jane Shore, EdD, studies a question many schools live with but rarely resolve:
How do you measure something as human as learning?
As a learning scientist, research visualizer, and founder of School of Thought, Jane designs experiences that help educators rethink both learning and the ways we assess it.

Her perspective is shaped by working on both sides of the measurement equation. She directed research for an international organization focused on access and equity, where she saw how systems attempt to define what counts. She also helped found a high school in Philadelphia that opened in 2019, where she saw how much of what truly matters in learning resists easy measurement.
Her work has long focused on the hard-to-measure: connection, growth, perspective, and change.
Jane is the author of People-Based Learning: The Future of Learning Is Human (Routledge, 2026). In the learning experiences she co-creates, she invites educators to rethink what counts and to design ways of measuring what actually matters.