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Perkiomen Valley to revise graduation project; district moves toward an 8‑artifact digital portfolio
Summary
The district will remove mandatory community service and job‑shadow hours from the graduation project and replace them with an eight‑artifact digital portfolio tied to state college‑and‑career readiness artifacts; change takes effect next school year and the board approved an amendment to the program planning guide.
The Perkiomen Valley School District board approved an amendment to the 2025–26 program planning guide on Jan. 13 that replaces the current graduation‑project requirement (community service and job‑shadow hours) with an eight‑artifact digital portfolio aligned to college‑and‑career readiness artifacts.
Dr. Fuller, presenting the high‑school proposal, said the statewide requirement for a graduation project no longer exists and the district’s seniors are already producing college‑and‑career readiness materials the state tracks. Under the proposed change, students would collect eight artifacts that demonstrate attainment across the state’s college‑and‑career readiness categories, store them in a digital portfolio (examples cited: Naviance, LinkIt, Google Docs) and write a reflection for each artifact explaining how it demonstrates readiness.
Fuller said the district would not retroactively change this year’s requirements; most current seniors have already completed the community service hours and the administration will help remaining seniors meet existing requirements. The amendment would apply to the 2025–26 graduation project requirements.
Board members asked how the district would preserve community service opportunities and career exposure. Fuller and other administrators said existing programs — senior career study, teacher apprenticeship, work‑study, career speakers and class‑based career units — would continue; the district will keep a cleared list of approved volunteer and career‑shadow opportunities for students who wish to pursue that pathway. Faculty would continue to evaluate portfolios, and the district would schedule review time for teacher teams to provide feedback and remediation before June graduations.
The board voted to amend the program planning guide and to retain other senior experiential options (senior career study and end‑of‑year work experiences) as separate, supported programs.
