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GRADUATE PORTRAIT
What Is the Graduate Portrait?
The PPS Graduate Portrait is an ambitious description of what our community wants its students to know, be, and be able to do, in order to prepare them to thrive in their lives and careers. Our Graduate Portrait includes the many and varied attributes needed to prepare students to engage meaningfully with the world and work to change systems that perpetuate racial injustice and oppression. The Graduate Portrait contains a total of 9 elements.
What Is the Developmental Continuum?
The PPS Developmental Continuum is a roadmap that guides students in their journey through PPS towards achieving the Graduate Portrait. The continuum includes a series of “I” statements that capture a student’s progress towards a specific Graduate Portrait element and is designed to be student and family-facing, as well as a tool for educators.
The continuum also makes connections with the PPS Instructional Framework, which sets the vision for teaching and learning in PPS.
Below are links to the Developmental Continuum language for each element of the Graduate Portrait:
- Inclusive and Collaborative Problem Solvers
- Inquisitive Critical Thinkers With Deep Core Knowledge
- Transformative Racial Equity Leaders
- Resilient and Adaptable Lifelong Learners
- Powerful and Effective Communicators
- Positive, Confident, and Connected Sense of Self
- Influential and Informed Global Stewards
- Reflective, Empathetic, and Empowering Graduates
- Optimistic, Future-Oriented Graduates