Proficiency-scale grading
Score against Marzano proficiency scales, not points and percentages — so mastery is transparent to teachers, students, and families.
Score against Marzano proficiency scales, not points and percentages — so mastery is transparent to teachers, students, and families.
Real-time intelligence on where mastery exists and where gaps are forming, across schools, grade levels, and standards.
Surface what each student needs next based on demonstrated mastery, with content and grouping that adapts automatically.
SSO, rostering, advanced permissions, and the administrative tooling large districts need.
Per-student licensing that drops as low as $4/student/year for 20,000+ students. Predictable budgeting for any size organization.
Designed by Empower Learning with Dr. Robert Marzano — the team that helped define modern competency-based education.
A traditional learning management system organizes content and assignments by course and time. A competency-based LMS is organized around proficiency scales — the explicit, mastery-level definitions of what students need to know and be able to do.
Empower combines both: it manages content, assignments, and rostering like any K-12 LMS, but the source of truth is each student's evidence of mastery against your scales. That means accurate grade reporting, real personalization, and a clear picture of student progress for every stakeholder.