Community Goals

OVERARCHING GOALS

• Deepen your understanding of the current state of school and where your community will be as you pursue the implementation of your Portrait competencies.

• Build momentum around the need for change based on the Portrait of a Graduate through leadership practices and ongoing stakeholder engagement.

• Infuse an overt commitment to the pursuit of equitable practices in your design process, especially for those most historically marginalized in your community.

• Explore and adapt practices aligned to your Portrait from fellow communities doing high school differently.

• Develop new strategies (pilots) to begin moving your educational community towards rethinking instruction and assessment for deeper learning.

THREE STRANDS

• Leaders Catalyzing Change - In order to successfully move from Portrait to Practice leaders on all levels need to understand, champion, and then lead the change process within their communities aimed at doing high school differently. 

• Deep Understanding of Current Practice and Need - In order to know where we’re headed, we first need to understand where are right now; through asset mapping, gap analysis, and ongoing stakeholder engagement we can understand how to best position our portraits to enable lasting change.

• Reenvisioning the Student Experience - In order to truly do high school differently we need to rethink the basic building blocks of school from the eyes of our most important stakeholders: our students; from piloting new instructional models to creating indelible internships to creating more equitable assessment systems, everything is on the table.