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The BCPS Graduate Profile Competencies define the core skills and mindsets that all Bullitt County Public Schools students build throughout their educational journey. Designed to prepare learners for success in college, career, and life, these competencies serve as our shared vision for student growth and self-direction across all grade levels and content areas.
Click on each BCPS Graduate Profile competency below to explore guides and resources that support implementation in your classroom:
Effective Communicator Productive Collaborator Mastery Learner
Self-Directed Navigator Innovative Problem Solver Community Contributor
General Store!
General Store!
⬇️ Resources for all of the ⬇️
competencies together.
Graduate Profile Review Games
Graduate Profile Review Games
⬇️ A variety of review games for different ⬇️
age groups and with challenge levels.
Newsletter Podcast
Newsletter Podcast
⬇️ AI generated podcast ⬇️
versions of the ALC Newsletter.
Competency Guides
Collaborative Reflection Activities
Graduate Profile Review Games
Use the game pieces and directions from the above link with the Canva presentations below to review the BCPS Graduate Profile competencies with your students. There are many different ways to play the review game along with different levels of challenge based on the game pieces (above) and the game themes (below).
Season 2- 2025-2026 Authentic Learning Connection Newsletter (not a podcast).
Season 1- 2024-2025🎙️ 5.14.25: Cultivating Learning Through Student Passions This episode encourages Bullitt County educators to tap into student passions to deepen Graduate Profile competencies. It offers practical strategies and resources to connect student interests with academic learning, making it more engaging, relevant, and reflective of real-world skills.Resources from this Podcast:
🎙️ 5.06.25: Building Student Metacognition through Reflection This episode highlights the importance of year-end reflection in building student metacognition and supporting the BCPS Graduate Profile competencies. It offers practical strategies and resources to help educators empower students to become more self-aware, goal-driven, and future-ready.
🎙️ 4.23.25: Student Learning Stories: Authentic Exhibitions This episode highlights student-led Exhibitions of Learning as powerful opportunities for reflection, growth, and demonstration of Graduate Profile competencies. It offers actionable strategies for educators—like embedding reflection and designing authentic audience experiences—and features Bernheim Middle School as a model for impactful implementation.
🎙️ 12.02.24: Empowering Students Through Competency Based language This episode shows how using intentional language can help students master the BCPS Graduate Profile competencies. Strategies for modeling, praising, and celebrating skills like Effective Communication and Productive Collaboration, along with practical resources for teachers are also shared. Learn how to start small, focus on one or two competencies, and find additional support on the website.
🎙️ 11.18.24: Taking Time to Reflect is Time Well Spent This episode highlights the importance of reflection for student growth. It explains how reflection enhances learning, boosts achievement, and develops lifelong skills. The newsletter offers reflection prompts and activities for various grade levels and provides strategies to engage students. It also connects reflection with the BCPS Graduate Profile competencies, encouraging educators to use it to help students become Self-Directed Navigators, Mastery Learners, Effective Communicators, Productive Collaborators, Innovative Problem-Solvers, and Community Contributors.
🎙️ 11.11.24: Fostering Self-Directed Navigators in BCPS This episode explains the "Self-Directed Navigator" competency. It introduces the competency, defining it as a student's ability to independently set goals, seek resources, and reflect on their progress. It provides teachers with strategies to implement the competency at different grade levels, using classroom activities, visual aids, and reflection techniques to help students develop these self-directed learning skills.
🎙️ 10.28.24: A Guide to Fostering Mastery Learners: This newsletter focuses on the Mastery Learner competency. It emphasizes the importance of fostering a growth mindset and encouraging students to embrace challenges, persist through difficulties, and learn from mistakes. It provides teachers with resources and strategies—such as goal-setting routines, reflective practices, and growth-oriented language—to cultivate a culture of mastery learning. It also underscores the importance of authentic, relevant learning experiences aligned with BCPS Graduate Profile competencies.
🎙️ 9.30.24: Setting Students Up for Success with Authentic Learning: This newsletter offers practical strategies to help teachers prepare students for authentic learning experiences. It emphasizes four key elements: establishing clear learning targets, fostering inquiry, creating a collaborative learning environment, and embedding reflection throughout the process.
🎙️ 8.26.24: Implementing the BCPS Graduate Profile: This newsletter focuses on the BCPS Graduate Profile, a set of competencies designed to prepare students for success beyond the classroom. The newsletter provides a four-step process for integrating these competencies into teaching practice and showcases examples of how teachers across the district are doing so.
🎙️ 8.19.24: BCPS Graduate Profile for Student Success: This newsletter focuses on the importance of the BCPS Graduate Profile, a framework outlining essential competencies for student success. The newsletter emphasizes the six core competencies – Mastery Learner, Innovative Problem Solver, Effective Communicator, Productive Collaborator, Self-Directed Navigator, and Community Contributor – and how they equip students for a changing world.
Season 1- 2024-2025🎙️ 5.14.25: Cultivating Learning Through Student Passions This episode encourages Bullitt County educators to tap into student passions to deepen Graduate Profile competencies. It offers practical strategies and resources to connect student interests with academic learning, making it more engaging, relevant, and reflective of real-world skills.Resources from this Podcast:
- Passion Driven Problem Solving
- Passion-Based Choice Boards
- "Outside School, Inside Me" reflections
- Passion Interview
- Learning Excursion
🎙️ 5.06.25: Building Student Metacognition through Reflection This episode highlights the importance of year-end reflection in building student metacognition and supporting the BCPS Graduate Profile competencies. It offers practical strategies and resources to help educators empower students to become more self-aware, goal-driven, and future-ready.
🎙️ 4.23.25: Student Learning Stories: Authentic Exhibitions This episode highlights student-led Exhibitions of Learning as powerful opportunities for reflection, growth, and demonstration of Graduate Profile competencies. It offers actionable strategies for educators—like embedding reflection and designing authentic audience experiences—and features Bernheim Middle School as a model for impactful implementation.
🎙️ 12.02.24: Empowering Students Through Competency Based language This episode shows how using intentional language can help students master the BCPS Graduate Profile competencies. Strategies for modeling, praising, and celebrating skills like Effective Communication and Productive Collaboration, along with practical resources for teachers are also shared. Learn how to start small, focus on one or two competencies, and find additional support on the website.
🎙️ 11.18.24: Taking Time to Reflect is Time Well Spent This episode highlights the importance of reflection for student growth. It explains how reflection enhances learning, boosts achievement, and develops lifelong skills. The newsletter offers reflection prompts and activities for various grade levels and provides strategies to engage students. It also connects reflection with the BCPS Graduate Profile competencies, encouraging educators to use it to help students become Self-Directed Navigators, Mastery Learners, Effective Communicators, Productive Collaborators, Innovative Problem-Solvers, and Community Contributors.
🎙️ 11.11.24: Fostering Self-Directed Navigators in BCPS This episode explains the "Self-Directed Navigator" competency. It introduces the competency, defining it as a student's ability to independently set goals, seek resources, and reflect on their progress. It provides teachers with strategies to implement the competency at different grade levels, using classroom activities, visual aids, and reflection techniques to help students develop these self-directed learning skills.
🎙️ 10.28.24: A Guide to Fostering Mastery Learners: This newsletter focuses on the Mastery Learner competency. It emphasizes the importance of fostering a growth mindset and encouraging students to embrace challenges, persist through difficulties, and learn from mistakes. It provides teachers with resources and strategies—such as goal-setting routines, reflective practices, and growth-oriented language—to cultivate a culture of mastery learning. It also underscores the importance of authentic, relevant learning experiences aligned with BCPS Graduate Profile competencies.
🎙️ 9.30.24: Setting Students Up for Success with Authentic Learning: This newsletter offers practical strategies to help teachers prepare students for authentic learning experiences. It emphasizes four key elements: establishing clear learning targets, fostering inquiry, creating a collaborative learning environment, and embedding reflection throughout the process.
🎙️ 8.26.24: Implementing the BCPS Graduate Profile: This newsletter focuses on the BCPS Graduate Profile, a set of competencies designed to prepare students for success beyond the classroom. The newsletter provides a four-step process for integrating these competencies into teaching practice and showcases examples of how teachers across the district are doing so.
🎙️ 8.19.24: BCPS Graduate Profile for Student Success: This newsletter focuses on the importance of the BCPS Graduate Profile, a framework outlining essential competencies for student success. The newsletter emphasizes the six core competencies – Mastery Learner, Innovative Problem Solver, Effective Communicator, Productive Collaborator, Self-Directed Navigator, and Community Contributor – and how they equip students for a changing world.
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