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P.A.S.

Making standards-based grading equitable and accessible for students, parents, and educators.

Jumpstart Portrait by PAS

JUMPSTART PORTRAIT

Know where you stand before you commit.

A curriculum-alignment instrument for New York schools. Upload your curriculum documents and Jumpstart Portrait measures what they offer and assess against the six NYSED Portrait of a Graduate attributes, then returns a starting point you can show a board, an association, or a review.

Early implementation. Not open for demos yet.

Portrait of a Graduate: class averages across six attributes A six-axis radar chart showing the share of standards evidenced at proficient or better for each Portrait of a Graduate attribute: Academically Prepared 67%, Creative Innovator 20%, Critical Thinker 58%, Effective Communicator 67%, Global Citizen 86%, Reflective and Future Focused 56%. Academically Prepared Creative Innovator Critical Thinker Effective Communicator Global Citizen Reflective and Future Focused % of standards evidenced at proficient or better

Jumpstart Portrait works entirely from curriculum documents: the courses a school offers, and what each one assesses against the six NYSED Portrait attributes. You start with the documents you already have, and finish with something you can put in front of a board, an association, or a review.

The six attributes

Coverage, attribute by attribute.

Jumpstart Portrait distributes attribute points across the courses a curriculum offers, then reports coverage, the structural ceiling, and the gap between what a graduate is required to demonstrate and what the curriculum can actually supply.

  • Academically Prepared
  • Creative Innovator
  • Critical Thinker
  • Effective Communicator
  • Global Citizen
  • Reflective and Future-Focused