Why this? Rather than wade through thousands of learning standards, let’s prioritize the most important competencies for life, work, and participating in community. Rather than rely on age-based academic standards and rubrics used to evaluate and grade learners, let’s employ stable developmental rubrics that will help learners identify where they are in the learning progression, and see visible evidence of their growth over time and across varied learning contexts–an essential efficacy-building experience (Bandura, 1977, 1982).