Bring your Portrait of a Graduate in Sewanhaka to Life
We help students document evidence of project-based learning and competency development aligned to the Sewanhaka Portrait of a Graduate, while providing teachers with the tools needed to quickly assess and tie lie learning to Next Generation Learning Standards.
Portrait of a Graduate in Sewanhaka: Move Beyond the Poster on Your Wall
- Integrate your Portrait of a Graduate into daily classroom instruction with one tool to support documentation of project-based learning and Portrait of a Graduate competency development
- Set students apart with shareable portfolios for job applications, college applications, and scholarships
- Access all evidence of learning K–12 and rest easy knowing that students retain access after graduation
Advance Project-Based Learning in Sewanhaka
- Embed real-world competency development and growth into learning with learning environments for individual, peer, and full-class collaboration
- Capture multimedia evidence and prompt for reflection to have students tell the whole story and the process behind learning
- Tie learning to Next Generation Learning Standards and Sewanhaka Portrait of a Graduate competencies
Unite Your Sewanhaka School Community
- 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: New York Portrait of a Graduate
Why are school districts in New York implementing Portrait of a Graduate?
School districts in New York are developing and implementing their local Portait of a Graduate to respond to the changing needs of the workforce. Implementing a New York Portrait of a Graduate 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 Graduate in New York?
SpacesEDU supports the New York Portrait of a Graduate by helping New York districts take their local Portrait of a Graduate 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 Graduate competencies with comprehensive district-wide reports.
How does SpacesEDU support project-based learning in New York?
SpacesEDU supports project-based learning in New York through easy-to-use multimedia ePortfolios and comprehensive performance-based assessment and reporting tools that help educators streamline their workflows and provide personalized, learner-centered education at scale.
Our performance-based assessment and reporting tools allow educators to quickly tag evidence of learning to New York Learning Standards, view proficiency at a glance for individual students and at the classroom level, and provide multimedia feedback to meet the needs of all learners. Students can quickly upload multimedia evidence of project-based learning to their ePortfolio to highlight evidence of growth, and educators can create customizable, digital project-based learning environments to support personalized learning pathways, including a Class Space, Group Spaces for collaboration, and 1:1 Spaces for IEPs, individual project-based learning spaces, and more.
What does the typical onboarding and roll-out process look like to support project-based learning and Portrait of a Graduate in New York?
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 New York school district decides to work with us, they will partner with a dedicated Partner Success Specialist to define their goals for project-based learning and New York Portrait of a Graduate documentation using SpacesEDU, create custom training and communication plans, and ensure successful adoption of the software.
We work with each New York 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.
