Competency determination sounds great in theory—until you realize five different teachers might score the same student work five different ways. This playground makes the calibration challenge visible and solvable. You'll rotate through interactive stations featuring authentic student work across different content areas and grade levels, showing how calibration applies whether you're assessing academic competencies or Portrait of Graduate skills). You'll analyze work, compare your scoring with other educators, and engage in structured discussion about what proficiency actually looks like. Through this process, you'll experience firsthand how calibration builds the "shared strike zone" that makes competency-based systems credible and defensible. Participants leave with: scoring protocols ready to use in their schools, strategies for facilitating calibration sessions with their own teams, and concrete understanding of how calibration creates an evidence-based system.