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Lever 2 for Deeper PoG Implementation: Teaching the Skills Behind the Portrait
How Norwalk makes Portrait of a Graduate skills real: teach them explicitly, embed in curriculum routines, and track progress via learning walks.
Innovating What We Measure: Assessment in the Service of Human Potential in an Era of AI and Uncertainty
To deliver on the promise of human potential, we must rebalance from the “assessment OF education” to “assessment FOR education,” transforming measurement into a dynamic pedagogical transaction that actively improves teaching and learning.
Appendix I: Detailed Evaluation and Reflection Tool for High School Internships
This supervisor evaluation tool provides a structured, shared language for assessing the context of a student’s internship experience (both how they worked and what they did).
Experience Matters: For Employers
By adopting this framework, employers move from guessing about potential to verifying capability.
Experience Matters: For Educators
For educators, the goal of this layer is to move beyond the traditional transcript—which only captures course completion—toward validating the context of a student's capability.
Experience Matters: For Learners
This intentional process of validation and articulation is what builds confidence and self-efficacy. We are not just credentialing skills; we are empowering learners to recognize, own, and communicate their own value.
So, Your District Wants Personalized Learning… Where Do You Start?
Explore how to do personalized learning effectively. Transform your educational system into one that truly values student outcomes.
The Architecture of Ability: How Evidence-Centered Design and UDL Can Shape AI-Era Assessment
ECD, UDL, and The Cow Path Educational measurement is at a crossroads. Multimodal artificial intelligence (AI) finally opens a pathway to move beyond the industrial-era, one-size-fits-all summative test in favor of unobtrusive, agentic, and adaptive assessment. But directing raw computing power at children without guardrails is ill-advised. Using…
Making Learning Visible for Students and Adults Through Reflection
Norwalk Public Schools integrates reflection to deepen Portrait of a Graduate implementation, fostering ownership and coherence across the district.
Experience Matters: A Common Language for Talent, Trust, and Economic Mobility
This report from Getting Smart and Education Design Lab proposes a Common Language of Experience—a robust, interoperable framework for evaluating, designing, and articulating experience value across any context.
