Portrait of a Graduate
Create a shared vision for every child.
Establish a high-impact ecosystem by building clarity and conviction for a shared vision of learning, ensuring that every step of the journey is thoughtful, strategic, and built for lasting impact
Âܲ·AVÊÓÆµcan help turn your community's vision into action. Backed by national research, but rooted in your local context, our team specializes in deep listening and co-creating solutions that address the unique needs of your district.
By aligning systems, empowering educators, and providing tools, training, and support, we ensure your Portrait of a Graduate becomes a reality for every child in your community.
Available Services
Portrait of a Graduate
Define a shared vision of student success that reflects community aspirations and future-ready life skills.
A Portrait of a Graduate identifies the real skills, in addition to academic competencies, children in your community need to succeed in this rapidly changing, complex world.
Âܲ·AVÊÓÆµcan help you expertly navigate school board relationships and community engagement, facilitate a robust and inclusive design process, and guide effective change management to ensure lasting momentum.
With strategic alignment at every step, your Portrait becomes more than an aspirational document—it serves as a practical guide to drive decisions, shape practice, and prepare every child to thrive in the real world.
Portrait of a Graduate Gallery
Examples of portraits our team has helped facilitate nationwide.
Our Portrait of a Graduate serves as the guide for what we try to achieve in all learning experiences. It lays the foundation for meaningful projects that solidify learning and empower students.Jeff Brown
Community Compass
A community-engaged, one-day visioning workshop to understand future-ready learning.
Engage stakeholders in a shared conversation about the future of learning. Designed to foster compelling dialogues, the experience empowers varied groups within your community to forge a united vision, shared commitments, and a collective drive toward providing every student with future-ready, deeper learning experiences.
Strategic Planning
Create actionable strategies that connect vision to long-term goals.
Using a human-centered and dynamic approach, Âܲ·AVÊÓÆµhelps school districts design strategic plans that move beyond words on paper. Through expert facilitation, we'll help you create real strategies that connect your vision to long-term goals—ensuring alignment, community buy-in, and measurable progress toward student success.
The strategic planning process helped us narrow our focus on a series of deliverable goals that strengthen our core beliefs and ensure our students graduate with the skills they need to succeed, no matter which path they choose to pursue. Kathy Rollo, Superintendent, Lubbock ISD (Texas)
Readiness Branding & Communications
Craft a compelling narrative to rally support and anchor all communications in a shared story.
Too often, great work goes unnoticed without a strong story to unite and inspire your community. Our branding and communications services help you define your narrative, rally support, and anchor every message in a shared story of purpose and impact.
With a full suite of tools and expertise, we’ll help you confidently launch your Portrait of a Graduate, strategic plan, and other initiatives with clarity and connection.
Roadmap
Align and activate your future-ready vision.
Âܲ·AVÊÓÆµcan support district leadership teams in creating a clear, actionable Roadmap to bring their Portrait of a Graduate to life.
Through this collaborative process, participants explore the shifts in mindsets, practices, and systems required for student-centered learning, and identify potential onramps, detours, and roadblocks. Roadmap enables teams to design an intentional, systemic approach to achieving their vision.
Customizable for Your Unique Needs
We start where you choose to begin.
Recognizing that no two systems are alike, any of AASA's district consulting services can be purchased a la carte or bundled for enhanced outcomes. Backed by national research, but rooted in your local context, our team specializes in deep listening and co-creating solutions that address the unique needs or your district.
To learn more about these services and other offerings, contact Jeff Korckinski at jeffk@aasa.org.
Âܲ·AVÊÓÆµMembers and EdLeader Promise Network participants are eligible for discounted rates.

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