Graduate Profile Design

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Transform Systems with Graduate Profile Design

Learning communities all over the country are moving beyond mission statements and adopting a graduate or learner profile, announcing what all students will know and be able to do when they graduate from the institution.

At its best, a graduate profile fuses high expectations, real-world relevance, and attention to the whole child into a set of learning outcomes that is focused, modern, and measurable. It is an essential element of a performance assessment system.

Whether your learning community is refining an existing profile or starting from scratch, ELP can facilitate a process that ensures that your graduate profile is equitable, actionable, and galvanizing for students, families, and teachers.

ELP helps schools and districts all over the country to design and implement portfolio-defense systems, customized to their context.

Portfolios are an effective and flexible form of assessment because they can wrap themselves around any kind of evidence, and they enroll the learner in the curation of that evidence. Defenses of learning naturally function as rites of passage, making them powerfully motivating and intensely meaningful for young people.