Take Your Portrait of a Graduate in West Burlington from Poster to Meaningful Implementation
Bring Your Portrait of a Graduate in West Burlington to Life
- Integrate your Portrait of a Graduate into daily classroom instruction with one tool to support documentation of 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
Celebrate West Burlington Students’ Learning Anytime, Anywhere
- Tie learning to the Iowa Core Standards and West Burlington Portrait of a Graduate competencies
- Capture multimedia evidence and prompt for reflection to have students tell the whole story and the process behind learning
- Equip teachers with the means to easily track, view, post, and provide feedback on student learning and growth
Unite Your West Burlington 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: Portrait of a Graduate in Iowa
Why are districts in Iowa implementing Portrait of a Graduate?
Districts in Iowa are developing and implementing their local Portrait of a Graduate 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 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 Iowa?
SpacesEDU supports Portrait of a Learner in Iowa by helping Iowa school 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 are other schools using SpacesEDU to support Portrait of a Graduate?
Schools across the United States use SpacesEDU to support taking their Portrait of a Graduate from a poster on the wall to effective implementation, placing the ownership of competency and skill development into the hands of their learners. Many schools set grade ranges for their SpacesEDU Portfolio Templates, understanding that how a third grader shows a competency like creative problem-solver might be very different from a twelfth grader.
What does the typical onboarding and roll-out process look like to support Portrait of a Graduate in Iowa?
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 school district in Iowa decides to work with us, they will partner with a dedicated Partner Success Specialist to define their goals for Portrait of a Graduate implementation using SpacesEDU, create custom training and communication plans, and ensure successful adoption of the software.
We work with each Iowa 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.
