Your community names the skills that matter. Your teachers define what each one looks like, kindergarten through graduation. We measure where your students stand on the Portrait you just built.
Portrait to Proof supports:
Portrait to Proof is a consulting partnership, sequenced to your calendar, that begins wherever your district is. By the end, your Portrait is the North Star your other initiatives point to.
Skills drawn from students, families, teachers, principals, and local employers, and adopted by your board.
Every skill defined as observable behavior, refined and confirmed by your teachers, and aligned to your Portrait of a Learner.
Where your students show each skill, where they're strong, and where they have room to grow.
Every district is at a stage, with a different next step.
No Portrait yet, though human skills are valued. You'll leave with a shared case for why this matters, so your community and staff commit together.
Community conversations are underway. You'll leave with all three: a Portrait your community named, defined, and measured.
On the wall, but nobody can say what it looks like in a classroom. You'll leave with a K-12 progression every teacher can teach toward.
Defined and in classrooms. The question now is whether students are growing. We work with you to measure and report what the evidence shows.
A Portrait matters when its skills can be taught and measured. Over a school year, we work alongside the people who will carry it forward, from the first community conversation to the first assessment report on your Portrait of a Learner.
Your whole community weighs in, and your committee lands on the skills it can stand behind.
Ground and Commit · Listen Wide · Name and NarrowWorking alongside the committee, your teachers get clear on what each skill means and the observable behaviors to focus on at every grade.
Define It So It Can Be TaughtThe Portrait connects to the work you already run, and the first assessment report, read with your leadership team, shows where students are strong and where to focus next.
Make It Live · See Where Your Students StandYour community did the naming. You enter with your teachers and finish with the first assessment report on your Portrait.
A Portrait takes hold when leaders model what it asks of students. This adds a leadership assessment showing where your district stands on leading human skills, then a series of leadership moves, practiced with your team, that build the conditions for those skills to grow.
The team that sits with your community on day one writes your progression and reads your assessment report on the last. Nothing is handed off.
Dr. Michelle Ament, Chief Academic Officer, leads every Portrait to Proof partnership. She did this work inside districts as a teacher and administrator, and has guided districts through the Portrait process nationally. She authored the Human Skills Framework.
Thirty minutes with our team to explore a partnership.