Bring Your Portrait of a Learner in WCSD to Life with SpacesEDU
Portrait of a Learner in WCSD: Go From Poster to Effective Implementation
- Create a custom Portrait of a WCSD Learner portfolio template to have your students connect artifacts of learning directly to your Portrait of a WCSD Learner competencies
- 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 with Personalized Learning in WCSD
- 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
Build Strong Family and Community Partnerships in WCSD
- Provide families with learning updates through visual documentation of learning, reactions, and multimedia feedback options
- Engage community stakeholders by having students capture learning from mentorships, internships, and apprenticeships and share learning externally with a view-only portfolio
- Encourage collaboration and spark conversation with one- and two-way family multimedia messaging
FAQs: Portrait of a Nevada Learner
Why are school districts implementing a Portrait of a Nevada Learner?
Districts in Nevada are developing and implementing their local Portrait of a Nevada 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 Nevada 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 the Portrait of a Nevada Learner?
SpacesEDU supports the Portrait of a Nevada Learner 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 schools using SpacesEDU to support the Portrait of a Nevada Learner?
Schools in Nevada use SpacesEDU to support taking their Portrait of a Nevada 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 the Portrait of a Nevada Learner?
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 Nevada 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.
