Bring your Portrait of a Learner in Kentucky to life with SpacesEDU
Portrait of a Learner in Kentucky: Go from Poster to Effective Implementation
- Create custom Portrait of a Learner Portfolio Templates at the district level, aligned to your local Portrait of a Learner competencies
- Provide time and space for students to document, reflect upon, and showcase deeper learning and graduate competencies
- Support personalized education experiences by giving students the voice and choice to share learning using their preferred medium – using any device
Track Progress Toward Competency Development Aligned to Your Local Portrait of a Learner
- Monitor competency development system-wide for your local competencies with classroom-level and district-level reports
- Equip all educators with the means to easily track, view, post, and comment upon student learning and growth
- Quickly identify trends in competency development by month, competency, and grade to visually view and track growth and areas for improvement within your community
Foster Real-World Competency Development and Growth for Kentucky Learners
- Embed real-world competency development and growth into learning with portfolios that follow students from preschool to graduation and beyond
- Support defense of learning with portfolios that celebrate students’ unique skills, competency development, and accomplishments
- Help students stand out on college, job, and scholarship applications with view-only URL Portfolio Sharing
FAQs: Portrait of a Learner in Kentucky
Why are districts in Kentucky implementing Portrait of a Learner?
Districts in Kentucky are developing and implementing their local Portrait of a Learner to respond to the changing needs of the workforce. Implementing a Portrait of a Learner helps ensure that students build the durable skills and competencies that are relevant to their local community and needed to be future-ready and find success after graduation.
How does SpacesEDU support Portrait of a Learner in Kentucky?
SpacesEDU supports Portrait of a Learner in Kentucky by helping Kentucky districts take their local Portrait of a Learner from poster to effective implementation. We help districts develop a custom Portfolio Template aligned with their local competencies that follows students K-12 and beyond. Students document multimedia evidence of their learning and competency development over their K-12 journey and can share it in their defense of learning and externally for job and college applications. Stakeholders gain visibility into how students are progressing toward their Portrait of a Learner competencies with comprehensive district-wide reports.
How are other Kentucky districts using SpacesEDU to support Portrait of a Learner?
School districts across Kentucky use SpacesEDU to support taking their Portrait of a Learner from a poster on the wall to effective implementation, placing the ownership of competency and skill development into the hands of their learners. Many Kentucky school districts set grade ranges for their SpacesEDU Portfolio Templates, understanding that how a third grader shows a competency like critical thinking, might be very different from a twelfth grader. These grade ranges also allow their learners to do a defense of learning at the end of each period, leveraging their Portrait of a Learner Portfolio as a presentation to highlight evidence of competency development.
What does the typical onboarding and roll-out process look like to support Portrait of a Learner in Kentucky?
We’ve spent the past 18 years working with school districts to meet the goals outlined in their strategic plans, and have defined a proven roll-out and implementation strategy that engages all relevant stakeholders.
When a Kentucky school district decides to work with us, they will partner with a dedicated Partner Success Specialist to define their goals for Portrait of a Learner implementation using SpacesEDU, create custom training and communication plans, and ensure successful adoption of the software.
We work with each Kentucky district to tailor their strategy, including offering a proof of concept term, to effectively evaluate the software for your use case and unique population of students.
