Learning Labs

Introducing Learning Labs

At the heart of the FullScale Symposium is a simple belief: transforming education requires coordinated progress across people, policy, practice, and systems — and it happens in teams, not in isolation. The Learning Labs, a new three-day engagement for state and system teams to explore a specific topic with peers that run parallel to the FullScale Symposium, are structured around that belief. 

The Labs will be facilitated by leading experts in the field — including KnowledgeWorks, Throughline, ReSchool, GettingSmart, Marzano Resources, and more to be announced — who bring deep experience in personalized, competency-based, and holistic learning. These aren’t just organizations committed to the work; they’re proven innovators who know how to drive systems change at full scale.

Each day of the Symposium, your team will engage alongside peers from across the country — learning from leading field partners, exploring what is possible, and doing the collaborative work of translating new ideas into concrete plans for your system.

By the end of the symposium, you won’t just have notes and inspiration. You’ll have alignment and a plan of action.

The FullScale Symposium Learning Labs go beyond traditional conference programming to create dedicated space for state and system teams to learn, reflect, and plan together. You’ll leave not just inspired — but equipped.

What Your Team Will Explore

Learning Labs are organized around six interconnected areas that drive education transformation that your team can select into:

• Practice: From Vision to Learning Model — Making personalized, competency-based, holistic learning a reality for all students.
• People: Leading the Human Side of Transformation — Building the educator readiness, leadership systems, and professional learning cultures that sustain change.
• Policy: Rethinking Grading, Assessment, and Transcripts — Aligning systems to reflect personalized, competency-based, holistic learning experiences.
• Progress: Measuring What Matters for Future-Ready Learners — Building data systems and evidence frameworks that track broader student success.
• Place: From School Walls to Community Pathways — Designing career-connected, real-world learning ecosystems.
• Potential Futures: AI and Emerging Technologies: From Possibility to Practice — Integrating AI and emerging technologies into instruction, assessment, and system design.

Designed for Where You Are

We know every system is at a different point in the transformation journey. That’s why the Learning Labs are organized into two tiers of engagement: Continuous Learning and Collective Action.

• Continuous Learning Teams: Learning from the field and designing next steps. For systems in the early phases of exploring personalized, competency-based, and holistic learning approaches. Your team will build shared understanding, learn from field examples, and identify practical entry points for change.
• Collective Action Teams: Aligning multiple parts of the system to move transformation forward. For systems actively implementing and working to sustain and scale. Your team will engage in coordinated problem-solving across instruction, leadership, policy, partnerships, and measurement — and identify collective actions to accelerate progress.

What You’ll Leave With

• Greater clarity and shared vision across your team
• Connections to peers navigating similar opportunities and challenges
• Practical strategies grounded in field examples
• Concrete next steps for advancing your work at home

Ready to bring your team? Registration opens real soon.  Space in the Learning Labs is limited to teams of 3-5 and available on a rolling basis.