Portfolios
Teaching
Opinion
Preparing Students for Portfolio Defense to Build Agency
At Envision schools, strong relationships, a college-going culture, and project-based learning prepare students for their culminating portfolio defense, which builds their agency.
Equity & Diversity
Opinion
Student Agency: The Equity Challenge of Our Day
Envision schools' portfolio defense model empowers students to change their lives and makes a difference for low-income students of color.
Student Well-Being & Movement
Opinion
Let's Replace Transcripts With Portfolios
As education begins to change and we reconsider how we assess students, we can't continue to do what is easiest for institutions at the expense of what is best for students. Testing and transcripts have never been very helpful to many students. They end up being accurate for only a very small percentage of kids. Using portfolios would be a far more beneficial way to show what kids know.
Personalized Learning
Opinion
Technical Challenges on the Path to Personalization
A combination of best practices and new tools makes us optimistic that personalized learning will be adopted at scale and will lead to the anticipated gains. We believe a comprehensive learner profile, data backpack, and student portfolio are key to personalization. However, there are five challenges to overcome to unlock the power of personalized learning that includes student records, interoperability, and developing growth rates.
Teaching
Opinion
Response: Ways To Help Students Develop Digital Portfolios
Several educators - Rusul Alrubail, Michael Fisher, Frank Serafina, Kristin Ziemke, Kate Muhtaris, Jeb Schenck, and Joe Rommel - share suggestions on how to effectively utilize digital portfolios with students.
Teaching
Opinion
How Can Students Use Digital Portfolios In The Classroom?
Steve McCrea asks:
How can we teachers use digital portfolios to help students show what they know and show us how they have used what they have learned?
Education
Opinion
From Turn-It-In to Posting, Publishing, Presentation, & Portfolio
Schools can promote deeper learning, engage students and transform school culture with the 4 P's of next gen learning: posting, presenting, publishing, and portfolio.
Teaching Profession
Opinion
Making Grading Personal, and More Enjoyable
The path to better grading lies in formative assessment and student portfolios, teacher Marie-Levey Pabst writes.
Education
Opinion
Performance-Based Assessment Debate
Student portfolios are prone to subjective evaluation but so are movies.
Student Achievement
Opinion
Beyond January: No Senioritis for Deep Learners
By completing and defending a portfolio, seniors work harder in their last semester than they do all four years in high school.
Assessment
Opinion
An Open Invitation to College Presidents
Why not use a College Entrance Portfolio for college admissions?
Curriculum
Opinion
'You Mean I'm Not Done Yet?': Using Portfolios to Improve Editing Skills
High school language arts teacher Marie Levey-Pabst explains how she got her students to revise their own writing and make their grades more meaningful.
Curriculum
Webinar Targets Use of Classroom Portfolios to Evaluate Arts Educators
With pressure mounting for teachers to demonstrate their contribution to student learning, Tennessee is ramping up an initiative that invites arts educators to assemble classroom portfolios.
Curriculum
Classroom Portfolios Used as Alternative Teacher-Evaluation Measure
Tennessee is allowing arts teachers to submit their students' work as one yardstick of how well they contribute to the children's achievement.