About us

Lawless Learning works wherever learning happens, helping schools, universities, and organisations make progress visible and build clearer pathways from early capability through to mastery.

Meet Ben

Ben Lawless is an educator, assessment designer, and learning design consultant with a long-standing interest in how people learn, and how that learning can be described well enough to actually be useful.

His background spans research, teaching, curriculum leadership, and work with schools, universities, and organisations trying to make sense of growth, quality, and progression.

Meet Megan

Megan Collins is an educational researcher, assessment specialist and workshop facilitator.

She has designed developmental rubrics, learning progressions and assessment frameworks for major education bodies including ACARA, VCAA and NAPLAN, trained educators across Australia, China, Saudi Arabia and Vietnam, and shaped evidence-informed moderation practices that help schools track and lift student learning outcomes.

Meet Danielle

Danielle is a cross-disciplinary innovator, researcher, facilitator and dispute-resolution practitioner.

She holds a US patent for a dispute-resolution system, created the world's first empirically derived professional standards for mediators, and pioneered neuro-inclusive practice. She led the largest research project in the history of commercial dispute resolution and advises governments, the UN and peak bodies worldwide.

Meet Chelle

Rochelle is an administrative, operations and IT support specialist.

She manages scheduling, client communication and documentation, administers user access, email and digital certificates, and resolves technical incidents through ServiceNow ticket management. She supports incident and change management, produces Power BI reporting, and provides virtual assistant and graphic design services that keep day-to-day operations running smoothly.

What we do

Make growth visible

We turn "get better at X" into a clear description of what improving looks like, level by level, so progress is something you can see and steer rather than guess at.

Feedback people can act on

When quality is described in terms of what people do, say, make or write, feedback stops being a verdict and becomes an obvious next step.

Turn vague standards into usable tools

We convert broad standards and capabilities into progressions and rubrics your team works from every day, not documents that sit in a drawer.

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