Mapping the path to mastery
We design rubrics, progressions, and measurement tools that make growth visible and actionable
Making learning progress visible
Lawless Learning works with schools, universities, education businesses, and organisations to define what growth looks like, step by step, and build shared language for quality and progression.
We design developmental rubrics and progression frameworks that clarify assessment, strengthen the conceptual integrity of your framework, and make next steps obvious.
What we do
Most systems can tell you how someone went on a task, a test, or a KPI. That’s not the same thing as explaining what’s actually developing, or what to do next.
We do the hard, slightly nerdy work of turning “we want people to get better at X” into clear descriptions of quality across a progression.
That progression becomes a practical tool: it makes assessment more consistent, feedback more usable, and planning less like guessing.
If your rubric feels vague, your reporting feels defensive, or your team keeps arguing about what “good” even means, you’re usually missing the same thing: a shared map of growth.
Bespoke education study tours
Bespoke study tours for principals and school leaders, shaped around what you actually want to explore. We help define the focus, organise the visits, and create a program that gives you useful insight rather than a parade of examples.
Advisory and retainer work
Sometimes you don’t need a one-off artefact. You need someone to sit alongside the work as it evolves, especially if you’re building a product, scaling an approach, or aligning multiple stakeholders.
Developmental rubric and progression design
A good developmental rubric is not a scoring sheet with nicer adjectives. It’s a map. We build rubrics that describe how quality changes over time, using observable evidence from real work.
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Who we work with
Schools and Universities
You’ve already got curriculum and standards. The missing piece is often a coherent description of growth that teachers can actually use. We help teams map progression across year levels, tighten criteria language, and make judgement conversations less personal and more evidence-based. The result is clearer teaching, clearer feedback, and clearer next steps.
Education Businesses
If you build products that make claims about learning, growth, mastery, or impact, you need more than dashboards and a scoring system. You need a defensible developmental backbone. We help you define the capability, map progression, and turn that into rubric architecture that holds up when customers ask hard questions. This strengthens the logic under your reporting, messaging, and product decisions.
Organisations and Corporate Teams
You already invest in developing people and lifting the quality of your work. The missing piece is usually a clear description of what capable performance looks like, one your team can assess against rather than argue over. We help you define the capability, map how it develops, and turn that into rubrics and frameworks that make training, assessment, and quality judgements consistent and defensible. The result is stronger evidence of capability and clearer decisions about where to invest next.
Trusted by leading organisations
Geelong Grammar
Ballarat High School
Australian Centre for the Moving Image
Victorian Department of Education
National Museum Australia
The University of Melbourne
Australian Evaluation Society
Let’s start something
If you’re trying to define growth more clearly, build a progression that holds up, or stop your assessment language drifting into vague territory, a discovery call is the fastest way to work out whether this is a fit.
His guidance drew on deep expertise, allowing us to quickly and effectively create a high-quality assessment tool.
Ben Taylor
The English Lab
Together, we transformed the original Seven Steps rubrics for narrative, persuasive and informative writing - making them far more robust and explicit.
Sarah Bakker
Seven Steps
Ben delivered an outstanding professional learning session on developing rubrics, expertly engaging staff with practical strategies and getting everyone on board.
Sally Morath
Deputy Principal Oak Park Primary
Pattern Re:Cognition
Occasional notes on assessment, learning design, and patterns worth paying attention to.