The Power of Portfolios

Start the Year with Reflection, Voice, and Ownership

Technology is most powerful when students are creating, communicating, and showing their thinking, not simply consuming or completing passive tasks. As you plan for the first weeks of school, consider asking: What do I want students to create, explain, or communicate?

Canva for Education and Seesaw make it easy for students to create, reflect, and share their thinking from day one. Explore ready-to-use templates and activities for classroom community builders, student introductions, goal setting, and beginning-of-year reflection, all designed to give students a voice and support a strong, active start to the school year.

Portrait of a Graduate Portfolio

Help students show how they are developing WCASD’s key competencies—Responsibility, Empathy, Communication, Adaptability, and Problem Solving.

These student-friendly templates guide learners to upload evidence of learning, reflect on their work, explain their thinking, and connect their work to WCASD’s key competencies.

K-2 Templates ~ Canva | Seesaw

3-5 Templates ~ Canva | Seesaw

Fall Portfolio Templates

K–2 students reflect on learning behaviors and subject area growth, while grades 3–5 students showcase and reflect on work from each content area in their portfolios.

Seesaw Template

Canva

Spring Templates

Canva & Seesaw

Seesaw Highlights (K-5)

Seesaw offers templates for students to reflect on their learning and display their best work. Teachers can use them to create digital collections, save notable pieces for conferences, track student progress, and better understand students as learners.

My Learning So Far... (K-2)

This Seesaw Lesson prompts students to choose work in their Seesaw Journal that they are proud of and take time to reflect on their learning and goals!

My Amazing Year Reflection

Students will reflect on themselves, their growth, and their learning throughout the year.

Seesaw - K-2 and 3-5

Canva - K-2 and 3-5

Student Notebook (3-5)

This Keynote & Canva template encourages student reflection on successes, challenges, and future goals, allowing parents to engage with their child's journey through a multimodal journal. Click the journal photo to download the template for your iPad.

I Have Goals (3-5)

Using Seesaw, students will share their goals or one thing they want to continue working on and outline the steps they will take to achieve those goals.