Portrait to Practice®
Ensure alignment across your school system & bring your vision to life.
Nuture a hopeful, resilient, and future-ready culture by aligning systems, empowering teams, and improving clarity, coherence, and collaboration.
Âܲ·AVÊÓÆµpartners with districts to help them translate their vision into daily practice, ensuring coherence across the system and empowering educators to deliver on the promise of future-ready learning.
Available Services
Portraits of Educators
Empower and support the educators and leaders who make your Portrait of a Graduate a reality.
How are you making your Portrait of a Graduate a reality for every student?
To bring the vision to life, the entire system must be aligned and educators must be empowered and supported.
The Portraits of an Educator and Leader align staff with the life skills outlined in the Portrait of a Graduate. Developing one or both helps districts identify the supports educators and leaders need to shift practices, build capacity, and bring the Portrait of a Graduate to life.
While the Portrait itself drives alignment between workforce needs and student preparation, it is our educators who help expose students to the real-world competencies during their K-12 journey that truly prepare them for life after graduation.
Catherine Truitt
Frameworks for Learning
Align every learning experience with your district’s vision for student success.
Âܲ·AVÊÓÆµcan help your team create a solid learning framework that sets the stage for changes in student-centered learning experiences and measurement in the district.
This service is key to systemic alignment of academic standards and life skills. It helps connect disparate district priorities and provides an opportunity to create coherence in approaches to learning across the district.
Learning Experience Accelerator for Teachers
Strengthen instructional capacity and student-centered learning by creating the conditions for success.
Build teacher capacity for deeper, student-centered learning through this collaborative and personalized process.
Âܲ·AVÊÓÆµwill guide you through a collaborative process that includes instructional design, learner engagement, an introduction to performance tasks, and strategies for creating conditions for learning around hope, resilience, and belonging.
Alignment Branding & Communications
Craft communication strategies and toolkits to align staff, families, and community during your Portrait implementation.
As you bring your Portrait of a Graduate to life, clear communication is key to building understanding and momentum. Âܲ·AVÊÓÆµhelps districts craft communication strategies and toolkits that align staff, families, and the community around shared goals.
Through purposeful messaging and practical resources, we help you turn your Portrait from vision to action—ensuring everyone is informed, inspired, and moving forward together.
We first established the key competencies for students as they progress through our school system. Having those as a foundation helped us then develop the educator competencies that we felt aligned with getting students to attain and advance in those critical areas. Jeff Knapp, Assistant Superintendent of Professional Learning and Human Resources, Winnetka Pulic Schools (Ill.)
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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