Transdisciplinary Learning Record
Franklin School · Jersey City · Est. 1872

Transdisciplinary Learning Record

A cross-disciplinary portrait of one learner's growth across Franklin's nine transdisciplinary skills, built from authentic coursework rather than a separate test.

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    The learner

    Jordan Rivera · Class of 2027

    This record shows how Jordan is growing across Franklin's nine transdisciplinary skills: the habits of mind we build in every subject, not just one.

    Everything here comes from real coursework. There is no separate test for these skills. We draw on the assessments Jordan has already completed across their classes, each teacher's own rubric evaluation and written feedback, and gather the work that shows a skill in action.

    About this record
    • No grades or averages. Proficiency appears in each teacher's own words ("Excelling," "Proficient," and so on), tied to a specific piece of work.
    • The featured work is real. Each piece below is an actual assignment.
    • Coverage is uneven on purpose. Some skills appear in more classes than others. A thin area shows where there's room to grow, or where we're still building ways to capture that skill.
    • Updated three times a year. A living picture of growth, separate from the official transcript.
    Competency profile

    Where the evidence lives

    Each spoke shows the weight of authentic evidence behind a skill, not a grade. Proficiency is carried by the teacher's own rubric language on each piece of work, never a number or average.

    Nine skills, one learner

    Longer spoke means more work evidences the skill. Select a skill to see its evidence.

    A dashed outline marks a skill not yet captured in this record.

    Featured evidence

    The work behind the skills

    Real graded assessments from 2025–26. Each piece shows only the rubric criteria that speak to its transdisciplinary skills, labelled underneath. Select a skill to narrow every piece to that skill's criteria.

    Rubric level, in the teacher's words: Top of the scale Meeting Developing or below
    Experiences

    Courses that fed this record

    There is no one-to-one mapping between a course and a skill. Evidence is gathered from across the learner's year.

    Coverage

    Where this record is still thin

    A record should show its own gaps. For this learner, two skills are under-evidenced, and that tells teachers exactly where to look next instead of papering over it with a score.

    • Collaboration This learner's collaborative projects (the Iliad Build, the Rube Goldberg machine) exist, but none were rubric-scored for collaboration itself. The teamwork happened; the record just can't see it yet.
    • Futures Thinking Visible only indirectly, through transfer-thinking work that applies ideas to new contexts. No assessment named it directly.
    Method

    About this prototype

    This record was assembled automatically from work the student had already done: existing Canvas rubric evaluations and teacher comments across nine courses. No new grading happened, and no scores or averages were computed. Making transdisciplinary growth visible should not become a second job for teachers.

    Drawn from

    Added burden

    None. Every rating and quote already existed in Canvas. The record reads the gradebook; it does not ask teachers to re-grade.

    Score-free by design

    Proficiency is shown as each teacher's own rubric level ("Excelling," "Mastery," "Exceeds Expectations"), never converted to a single number.

    Open about coverage

    Skills with little or no rubric-scored evidence are shown as thin or uncaptured, pointing to where lightweight tagging would help most.