Standards-aligned learning, rooted in the real world.
Defined Learning is the academic core: rigorous, project-based performance tasks that show students why the work matters — across every subject, every grade, every standard.
Why so many curricula feel disconnected: they teach skills out of context.
Real problems
Tasks framed as authentic challenges.
Real audience
Students present to a stakeholder, not just the teacher.
Real product
An artifact that solves the problem.
Real standards
Mapped to the standards your district owns.
One continuum from classroom to career.
Defined Learning, Defined Careers, and Defined @ Work form a single arc. Defined Learning is the leg that anchors the academics — the foundation everything else builds on.
Six ways the academic core gets real.
Whether a teacher needs a single performance task this week or a district is rolling out PBL system-wide, the same six building blocks scale up or down.
Performance Tasks Library
1000+ ready-to-run, standards-aligned performance tasks across every subject and grade band — vetted by educators, scaffolded for the classroom.
Built-in Rubrics & Evidence
Every task ships with assessment rubrics, exemplars, and student work samples — so teachers grade evidence, not effort.
Customization
Each task is customizable for teachers to adapt for their needs and local environment.
All Core Subjects, K–12
Math, science, ELA, social studies, CTE — and crosscutting tasks that map across them. Coverage from kindergarten through senior projects.
Differentiation Built In
AI enhanced customization allows entry points, sentence frames, language supports, and extensions — so the task fits the learner, not the other way around.
Educator PD & Coaching
Onboarding, model lessons, and on-demand coaching that get teachers confident running their first project — and their fiftieth.
Same library. Two ways in.
Some districts roll out Defined Learning system-wide; others let teachers pull a single task into a unit. The platform fits either entry point.
Pull one task. Run it Monday.
Browse, assign, and run a single performance task — without rewriting your unit plan.
- Plug-in performance tasksDrop a task into the unit you're already teaching.
- Rubrics ready out of the boxScore evidence with built-in rubrics and exemplars.
- Customizable Tasks & Differentiation supportsSentence frames, scaffolds, and extensions included.
- No new LMS requiredWorks alongside the tools you already use.
Adopt a coherent K-12 backbone.
Roll out a system-wide library mapped to your standards, your scope and sequence, your strategic plan.
- Standards alignment by subjectMapped to your state's standards and district scope.
- Implementation playbookPhased rollout, coaching, and admin reporting.
- Coherent K-12 throughlineOne PBL framework from elementary through senior year.
- Equity & evidence at scaleSame rigorous tasks for every classroom, every learner.
Defined Learning provides my teachers with everything they need to implement engaging performance tasks in the classroom. The hands-on projects make careers come alive for students because they can apply their classroom knowledge in a real-world setting
Dr. Genevra Walters · Superintendent of Kankakee School District · IL
Make the academics matter.
Schools, districts, curriculum and instruction teams — see how Defined Learning fits the work you're already doing. One library. Every classroom.