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About Danielle Paloposki

Danielle is an educator and former school administrator with extensive experience as a classroom teacher and middle level leader, specializing in standards aligned, competency based assessment. A contributing author to the British Columbia K–12 Reporting Policy, she has led system wide shifts from traditional grading to competency focused approaches grounded in feedback, professional judgment, and evidence of learning over time. Danielle now partners with the Canadian Assessment Centre to support schools in building coherent, humane, and sustainable assessment systems that cultivate transferable skills and self regulated learners.

You can connect with Danielle

On Facebook, LinkedIn, 

On Instagram @dpalo_ed, and 

On her website at https://danielle-paloposki.mykajabi.com/

Timestamps from This Episode

0:00:00 - How traditional assessment undermines learning

4:15 - Why Danielle founded the Competency Code Collective

9:52 - How to support teachers in assessment transitions

16:10 - Are learning targets just for administrators?

18:59 - From evaluator to learning coach

23:39 - Ensuring our assessment language is consistent

31:08 - How to use AI to design better assessment

35:49 - Assessment resources from Danielle

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