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Board reviews draft ‘Portrait of a Graduate’; district to engage teachers and students for grade-level definitions
Summary
The board reviewed draft priorities (effective communicator, critical thinker, academically prepared) from the MTSS leadership team and asked staff to bring the drafts to teachers, principals and the student advisory council for development and grade‑level detail.
The Provo City School Board reviewed early drafts of a district “Portrait of a Graduate” during its March 28 study session and asked staff to involve teachers and students in refining grade-level expectations.
Staff presented draft materials developed by the district’s MTSS leadership, describing three broad priority domains—effective communicator, critical thinker and academically prepared—and noting that the Utah State Board of Education lists a larger set of characteristics that districts often map to local priorities.
Board members and staff discussed audience and usability. Lisa Boyce asked whether the document should be written in language students will understand; other members recommended working with teacher teams to produce developmentally appropriate descriptors (for example, K–3, 4–6, 7–8). The presenters told the board they had kept the top-level framework deliberately compact to aid implementation and suggested that site-level teams and PLCs could build grade-level examples.
Next steps and timing: board members supported returning the draft to teachers, principals and a student advisory committee for feedback and asked staff to bring back a revised draft. One board member suggested asking new student board members or a student advisory group to produce a student‑facing version of the document; staff said that approach could be integrated into work during the coming school year and that a completed portrait by the end of the next school year would be a reasonable target.
There was no vote to adopt the portrait during the study session; staff presented the drafts for direction and asked for time to refine the language and packaging for different audiences.
