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Equity & Access

Collaborating with Community as Partners in Fulfilling the Promise of your Graduate Profile

Community engagement and collaboration is essential in both planning and implementing Graduate Profiles in order to fulfill the promise articulated in your profile. ACE Leadership HS partners with the community in a variety of ways; this blog focuses on a specific strategy to collaborate on curriculum design and project planning that can be adapted […]

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Leadership

So You Designed a Profile of a Graduate, Now What?

Your district has recently completed your Profile of a Graduate, (sometimes also known as a Graduate Profile or Learner Profile) now what? Rebecca Midles and Katie Martin share next steps.

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Learner Centered Collaborative
Future of Learning

The Story of Transforming A System: Spring Grove Schools

[…] nobody wants to give that time up, including the teachers who once questioned. To support students as we Redefining Ready National College and Career Readiness Indicators and our profile of a learner progressions, we have added Advisory time to build relationships, check-in about questions and expectations, and ensure students are preparing themselves for life, careers, […]

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Future of Learning

Champion the Class of 2021: A Timely Impact Opportunity

[…] include digital credentials, certifications, licenses, vaccination status. High school learners in Texas benefit from Greenlight Credentials which allows them to share some or all of their digital profile with employers and colleges Every learner should graduate from high school with a strong LinkedIn profile with business and civic connections, publications of personal bests, and a […]

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New Pathways

Launching New School Models in Phoenix

[…] together a group of engaged local leaders to imagine the design of the new school. The design committee built a vision for the school, created a coherent profile of a learner and developed the learning experience blocks. Through a series of workshops, the committee described the future that the young people in the community […]

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students engaging in digital learning
Getting Through

When Humans, Not Systems, Run Schools

[…] of the six districts in NGLC’s change management cohort, launched its Learning Without Boundaries initiative a decade ago with a vision re-set, and still uses its graduate profile to shape its work today—including in its response to COVID-19. “One of the big decisions we had to make,” superintendent Pat Deklotz told us, “was what […]

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Leadership

Supporting District Change Through Learner-Centered Leadership

[…] by those in the system who are most important to ultimately getting things done. We believe the best place to define these outcomes is in a learner profile that makes it clear to everyone, what the system is trying to accomplish, and why. Create the Conditions For educators to create a learner-centered experience, leadership has […]

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Competency-Based Education

Framing and Designing the HOW

[…] as a shared vision of purpose and future goals. This vision can also be refined to take a smaller-grain-size shape learning goal commonly referred to as Learner Profiles or Graduate Profiles, which often rest on a human-centered design structure or set of beliefs. Understanding the organization’s role in their community and how they serve […]

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Learning Design
Competency-Based Education

Change Management at Harmony Public Schools: When Prior Innovations Become Status Quo

[…] we are focused upon the Teacher and School Leader (TSL) grant from the US Department of Education, Harmony’s goal is to create performance metrics informed by a “skills profile” for each educator, and similarly develop a “needs profile” for each campus based on school performance and characteristics. The educator skills profile will be powered by […]

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Harmony Public Schools Teacher Designation Pathways Diagram