Bring Your Portrait of Graduate to Life — Download the Free Toolkit Today!
Integrating your Portrait of a Graduate into daily lessons has never been easier. Our platform streamlines embedding key competencies and values directly into your curriculum, helping educators create purposeful, aligned learning experiences that prepare every student for future success—effortlessly and effectively.
What You’ll Find in Our Toolkit
Our toolkit provides everything you need to bring the Portrait of a Graduate to life in your school. Inside, you’ll find practical guides, customizable templates, sample activities, and strategies designed to help educators embed key competencies and soft skills seamlessly into daily lessons—making meaningful learning simple and effective.
Customize your Portrait of Graduate to reflect your District’s Priorities
Adapt frameworks like the NYS Portrait of a Graduate or create your own graduate profile that highlights the importance of soft skills for students and core 21st-century competencies.
Seamless Integration of 21st Century Skills for Students
Easily embed the essential 21st century skills for students into daily lessons, making sure your portrait of a graduate competencies come alive in every classroom activity.
Collaborative Creation of a Personalized Graduate Profile
Use our platform to co-design a unique profile of a graduate with input from teachers, leaders, and families — inspired by best portrait of graduate examples and tailored to your school’s vision.
Struggling to Bring Your Portrait of a Graduate to Life?
Curriculum Genie makes developing 21st century skills and soft skills for students simple and actionable.
Not sure how to develop soft skills for students effectively?
Our platform simplifies aligning lessons with 21st-century skills and soft skill, fosters collaboration among teachers and students, and provides real-time tracking of student progress—making it easier than ever to develop well-rounded, future-ready learners.
Not Sure How to Design Lessons That Apply the PoG?
Design lessons with confidence using Curriculum Genie — seamlessly integrate Portrait of Graduate competencies and 21st century skills for students into every activity, making sure learning is purposeful and aligned with real-world outcomes.
How to embed the Portrait of Graduate in our platform
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Select your Portrait of Graduate and settings
When creating a new unit, simply select your district’s Portrait of a Graduate profile from the dropdown. Then, click My Settings to customize how these competencies and skills align with your unit goals — making it easy to embed life-ready skills from the start.
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Tailor your Portrait of Graduate attributes
Customize the key attributes and expectations for each grade level to align with your teaching goals. Easily select and adjust competencies like Creative Problem Solver and Critical Thinker to make your graduate profile authentic and actionable.
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Review Attributes and Expectations
Carefully review the attributes and expectations for each selected competency. Ensure they align with your teaching goals and clearly describe what students should be able to demonstrate, like problem-solving or critical thinking skills.
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Select the Portrait of Graduate Competencies to Focus On
Choose which attributes and expectations from your Portrait of Graduate will be the focus for your unit plan. This helps you tailor lessons and assessments to develop specific skills like Creative Problem Solver or Critical Thinker with clarity and purpose.
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