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

2. What aspirations and dreams do we have for our students?

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

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

6. Portrait of a Graduate

7. Four Phase Design Process

8. 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

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

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

11. 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

12. The world has changed, but have our schools?
Today

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

14. 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

15. 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

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

17. 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