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How to Measure Whether Your Portrait of a Learner Is Working

Naming the skills was never the hard part. The quieter question is whether they are growing, and whether you could show it. Dr. Michelle Ament, Chief Academic OfficerAug 12, 20262 min read Read the Post

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Illustration of a student holding up a sketched idea to four classmates around a table of paper models, with gears, a lightbulb and rising arrows above them Assessment How to Measure Whether Your Portrait of a Learner Is Working Naming the skills was never the hard part. The quieter question is whether they are growing, and whether you could show it. Aug 12, 20262 min read Human Skills FrameworkPortrait of a Learner+1 Illustration of California's Portrait of a Learner wheel and its seven competencies, above students presenting, building and reading News What Does California's Portrait of a Learner Mean for Your District? The State Board named seven competencies and adopted them as guidance. Your own Portrait still counts, and the question quietly changed. Aug 5, 20262 min read Portrait of a LearnerDistrict Leadership Illustration of the New York State Portrait of a Graduate wheel presented on a screen, with students working and talking below it News What Does New York's Portrait of a Graduate Mean for Your District? Six attributes, and a diploma being rebuilt around them. The timeline is short, and it favors districts that move early. Jul 29, 20262 min read Portrait of a LearnerDistrict Leadership Illustration of the IGNITE 2026 Summit at Hayes Mansion, with district teams talking on the lawn outside Professional Learning From Portrait to Practice: Learning Alongside Other Districts The board approves the Portrait, the poster goes up, and the people who helped name it move on. What they leave behind is the hardest part. Jul 22, 20262 min read Portrait of a LearnerDistrict Leadership+2 Illustration contrasting a greyed-out classroom of students filling in a written test with a student in colour surrounded by icons for ideas, communication and collaboration Human Skills The Human Skills Paradox The better artificial intelligence gets, the more valuable the things it cannot do become. That paradox is already on your wall. Jul 15, 20262 min read Artificial IntelligenceHuman Skills Framework+1 Illustration titled District Plan Progress, showing a hand placing a block labelled Shared Belief and Ownership into a progress bar captioned The Crucial Next Step Professional Learning How to Build Teacher Buy-In for Human Skills in Schools We named it, wrote it into the strategic plan, and put it on the wall. Then we were surprised when very little changed. Jul 8, 20262 min read District LeadershipEducator Voice+1

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