Bring Your Portrait of a Learner in Nevada to Life with SpacesEDU
Portrait of a Learner in Nevada: Go From Poster to Effective Implementation
- Create a custom Portrait of a Learner portfolio to have your students connect artifacts of learning directly to your local Portrait of a Learner competencies or the state Portrait of a Nevada Learner domains, skills, and mindsets
- Offer flexible learning experiences and engage community partners by having students capture learning from mentorships, internships, and apprenticeships anytime, anywhere, and on any device
- Embed real-world competency and skill development into learning with portfolios that follow students K–12 and beyond with an All Work Feed and view-only URL portfolio sharing
Place Students at the Center of Learning with Portrait of a Nevada Learner
- Provide a learner-centered approach to documenting learning and growth with an easy-to-use app, multimedia tools, and built-in reflection opportunities for students
- Foster personalized learning with activity pathways and Individual Spaces to support students on IEPs and gifted learning plans, and Proficiency Reports to identify gaps in learning and opportunities for re-teaching
- Help students demonstrate what they know and what they know how to do by having them share their learning using multimedia and offering ongoing feedback
Enhance Student Mastery Through Competency-Based Education in Nevada
- Focus on student mastery over seat time with one tool to support Competency-Based Education with a custom Proficiency Scale and a Proficiency Report at the individual student, classroom, school, and district level
- Celebrate anytime, anywhere authentic learning and skill development with a platform that’s accessible on any device and includes dedicated student, teacher, family, and administrator accounts
- Enable educators to meet students where they are in their individual learning journeys by connecting student work directly to NVACS and tracking progress towards mastery of standards with an easy-to-use Proficiency Report
FAQs: Portrait of a Learner in Neada
Why are districts in Nevada implementing Portrait of a Learner?
Districts in Nevada are developing and implementing their local Portrait of a Learner to respond to the changing needs of the workforce, including the creation of new jobs and industries with the advancement of technology. Creating and 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 Nevada?
SpacesEDU supports Portrait of a Learner in Nevada by helping Nevada 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 Nevada schools using SpacesEDU to support Portrait of a Learner?
Schools in Nevada, like Lied STEM Academy, 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 Nevada schools set grade ranges for their SpacesEDU Portfolio Templates, understanding that how a third grader shows a competency like empowering or connecting, might be very different from a twelfth grader.
What does the typical onboarding and roll-out process look like to support Portrait of a Learner in Nevada?
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 Nevada 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 Nevada school 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.
