A free webinar series on making the Portrait of a Graduate measurable through standards-aligned curriculum, authentic performance assessment, student agency, and teacher capacity building. As New York prepares for NY Inspires, it brings together leading voices in curriculum, performance-based learning, and district implementation.
Each session brings a different perspective on how New York districts can move from Portrait of a Graduate vision to standards-aligned implementation, authentic performance assessment, and scalable teacher support.
See how one interdisciplinary unit can become a standards-aligned performance assessment, authentic student evidence, and a practical model for building teacher capacity.
Hear how district leaders are engaging communities, building from existing strengths, and scaling Portrait of a Graduate work in ways that connect back to NY Inspires.
Explore what it takes to scale performance-based learning across schools and districts, with perspectives from regional leadership and national practice.
NY Inspires moves graduation toward multiple ways for students to demonstrate what they know and can do. That puts the Portrait inside units, tasks, and evidence, where most implementation stalls.
Competencies get added after units are written, so the Portrait becomes an overlay and the tasks and assessments stay the same.
The Portrait shows up in slides and slogans, not in lesson objectives, student tasks, success criteria, and feedback.
Teams define “good evidence” differently, scoring drifts, and leaders can’t tell whether the work is taking hold.
Moving away from long-standing Regents expectations is a big shift. Teachers need a gradual path, not one more initiative.
The webinars, and the workspace below, start where teachers already are: one unit, one well-designed performance assessment.
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Start with the competencies New York and your local community expect graduates to demonstrate.
Embed competencies into standards-aligned units teachers already teach, and create meaningful opportunities for students to practice them.
Collect authentic student evidence against shared success criteria, so progress becomes visible across classrooms and schools.
This is the implementation challenge NY Inspires creates: connecting the Portrait to what students actually experience and demonstrate.
Scroll through one example of how a standards-based unit moves from existing curriculum to Portrait-aligned student evidence. Curriculum Genie is one implementation approach; teachers review, edit and approve everything it drafts.
Use existing curriculum instead of rebuilding it from scratch.
Select NYS standards and PoG attributes side by side.
Build a performance task aligned to what students should know and demonstrate.
Define shared criteria before students begin.
Connect student work to standards, competencies, and growth over time.
New York’s Portrait of a Graduate, learning experiences, assessment requirements, and one diploma are moving from vision into instruction and local assessment.
New York establishes its statewide Portrait of a Graduate under NY Inspires.
Move the Portrait from district vision toward meaningful classroom practice.
Integrate the Portrait into everyday instruction and local assessment.
Students demonstrate proficiency as New York moves into full implementation.
The district questions: How does PoG show up in an existing unit? What evidence should students produce? How is it assessed consistently? How do leaders know it’s taking hold?
A voluntary, progressive path from awareness to application, integration, and leadership, the same path Webinar 1 walks through with a real teacher’s Yellow Belt evidence.
White Belt · AwareUnderstands the foundations of PoG, performance-based assessment, and project-based learning.
Yellow Belt · AppliesImplements curriculum-embedded PoG tasks with AI support.
Green Belt · IntegratesDesigns original tasks and rubrics, calibrates scoring, and leads project-based learning.
Black Belt · LeadsCoaches other educators and helps scale the work across schools or districts.Articles, webinars, and New York use cases for putting a Portrait of a Graduate to work.
What NY Inspires changes for New York districts, and the practical steps leaders can take now to move the Portrait of a Graduate into curriculum and local assessment.
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How to move a Portrait of a Graduate from a framed statement into daily instruction, and the evidence that shows it is working across classrooms.
Watch the webinar →How one New York district replaced framed-poster compliance with reviewable, multimodal evidence: portfolio artifacts leaders can sample by grade and subject to confirm the Portrait is taught consistently.
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Join the webinar series, or talk with our New York team about a practical path from the Portrait of a Graduate to classroom evidence.
See the NY Inspires implementation model