2019
In addition to outlining the skills needed for success in the world beyond our classrooms, the MURSD Portrait of a Learner provides an opportunity to celebrate the range of talents, curiosities, explorations, and accomplishments of our students. In the spirit of this new driving force in our schools, Nipmuc has established the Portrait of a Learner Scholars Program. Through this opportunity, Nipmuc has created digital profiles for a cohort of students in order to share their unique stories of learning.
Our initial class of scholars includes 32 students across all grade levels. Like all 650 students at our school, these students completed a reflection on their learning following the January 2019 Inspired Learning Day. During the February 2019 Lead Learner Workshop, a group of educators and students participated in a blind process to review our students' reflections. Through this anonymous process, they identified 32 students whose reflections told powerful stories of learning and growth.
These students then had the chance to participate in a full-day workshop during which they created their digital profiles, shared their stories through the lens of the Portrait of a Learner, and found creative ways to highlight their powerful moments of learning. The result provided our school and district not only with a personification of the Portrait of a Learner in action but also a new way to capture the success of our students beyond test scores, report cards, and traditional metrics.
We hope you enjoy this chance to meet the Nipmuc Regional High School Portrait of a Learner Scholars!
Our initial class of scholars includes 32 students across all grade levels. Like all 650 students at our school, these students completed a reflection on their learning following the January 2019 Inspired Learning Day. During the February 2019 Lead Learner Workshop, a group of educators and students participated in a blind process to review our students' reflections. Through this anonymous process, they identified 32 students whose reflections told powerful stories of learning and growth.
These students then had the chance to participate in a full-day workshop during which they created their digital profiles, shared their stories through the lens of the Portrait of a Learner, and found creative ways to highlight their powerful moments of learning. The result provided our school and district not only with a personification of the Portrait of a Learner in action but also a new way to capture the success of our students beyond test scores, report cards, and traditional metrics.
We hope you enjoy this chance to meet the Nipmuc Regional High School Portrait of a Learner Scholars!
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Meet our Mindful Learners. ● Have a growth mindset ● Recognize one’s own emotions, thoughts, and values and how they influence behavior ● Successfully regulate one’s emotions, thoughts, and behaviors in different situations ● Have the ability to set and persist toward personal and academic goals ● Make constructive choices about personal behavior and social interactions based on ethical standards, safety concerns, and social norms
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Meet our Inspired Innovators.● View failure as an opportunity to learn, understanding that creativity and innovation is a long-term cyclical process ● Adapt to varied roles, jobs, responsibilities, schedules and contexts ● Use a wide range of idea creation techniques ● Elaborate, refine, analyze, evaluate, and iterate ideas in order to maximize creative efforts ● Seek and incorporate feedback and reflection
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Meet our Global Citizens. ● Demonstrate understanding of others' perspectives and needs ● Demonstrate value for diversity of experiences, culture and perspectives ● Respect cultural differences and works effectively with people from a range of social and cultural backgrounds ● Leverage social and cultural differences to create new ideas and increase both innovation and quality of work
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Meet our Skillful Collaborators.● Demonstrate ability to work effectively and respectfully with diverse teams in a variety of formats ● Exercise flexibility and willingness to try on or build on the ideas of others when they differ from one’s own ● Assume shared responsibility for collaborative work, and values individual contributions made by other team members ● Elicit input from others in a variety of ways
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Meet our Effective Communicators.● Articulate thoughts and ideas effectively using oral, written, and nonverbal communication skills in a variety of forms and contexts
● Use communication for a range of purposes ● Listen effectively to decipher meaning, including knowledge, values, attitudes and intentions ● Utilize multiple media and technologies, and knows how to judge their effectiveness and their impact |
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Meet our Solution Seekers. |
● Identify, define, and solve authentic problems and essential questions ● Reflect critically on learning experiences, processes, and solutions ● Monitor comprehension - recognizes when obstacles are encountered, diagnoses obstacles and selects appropriate strategies to work through them ● Value, seek, and evaluate sources of help
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