South Allegheny School District Portrait of a Graduate South Allegheny School District

What aspirations and dreams do we have for our students?

Are our students prepared to contribute and compete in a global, innovative, rapidly changing economy?

As a first step, do we have a stated, unifying vision for creating a 21st century educational system for our youth?

Portrait of a Graduate

Four Phase Design Process

Meeting 1 Setting the Stage Process Research Portrait of a Graduate website exploration Meeting 2 Ideas Synthesize ideas Prioritize Discuss visuals Meeting 3 Draft Competencies Prioritize/ Strategize Options for visuals Meeting 4 Final Draft Feedback and refine final visual for adoption

Examples of PoG Culpeper County Public Schools (Virginia) Cedar Rapids Community School District (Iowa) Boone County Schools (Kentucky)

Phase 1 PLAN Explore research around 21st century learning Create the PoG Core Team Develop a timeline of adoption Phase 1 PLAN

Phase 2 ACTIVATE Convene the Core Team Develop a shared understanding of 21st century teaching and learning Study implications of how this will look at SA Phase 2 ACTIVATE

The world has changed, but have our schools? Today

The economic needs have changed... Farmers Factory Workers Knowledge Workers Innovators, Communicators, Collaborators

Draft a set of competencies for graduates (what we think they need to know and be able to do) Develop a visual that represents what our Portrait of a Graduate means to South Allegheny Reach out and continue to discuss this with the broader community and gain their insight and ideas. Phase 3 CREATE

Publish the board-adopted Portrait of a Graduate as a North Star for comprehensive planning and design of educational experiences for our students. Phase 4 ADOPT

Proposed Timeline Roll out Fall 2018 Adoption by Spring 2019 District Integration beginning 2019/2020

Results and Follow-Up Full report on process Request for Board Approval of the Visual Use to guide and connect our work Share across district and community