A Portrait of a Graduate is a shared vision identifying the knowledge, skills and dispositions of today’s learners. It serves as your organization’s North Star by outlining the competency-based academic and essential skills necessary to prepare your learners for their future. A locally developed Portrait of a Graduate is designed to reinvigorate and re-engage all stakeholders and provide an intentional structure to support equitable access to high-quality learning experiences. It is the single most impactful thing you can do within your system to redefine success.

A Portrait of a Graduate:

• Creates a unified district vision and system alignment.
  
  
• Supports leading with the learner in mind.
  
  
• Identifies knowledge, skills and dispositions of today’s innovative learner.
  
  
• Focuses on equitable access to high-quality learning experiences.
  
  
• Promotes learner agency and prepares students to be lifelong learners and contributors.
  
  
• Provides the foundation for developing learner profiles and building customized pathways for each learner.