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A Learner Profile is a document that a student creates together with building administrators, teachers, school counselors, and parents/guardians. The Learner Profile is driven by the individual student and, at Keystone Oaks, will be in the form of a Google Slides presentation that includes the student’s interests, strengths, challenges, and goals, as well as assessment data.
The Learner Profile will:
The Learner Profile is not graded and the implementation may look different in each building and at the various grade levels. In the video below, Keystone Oaks Superintendent Dr. William Stropkaj provides an overview of the Learner Profile at Keystone Oaks.
More information about the Learner Profile is included in this document: Learner Profile Communication.pdf and below the video.
As outlined in the Keystone Oaks School District's 2022-2026 Strategic Plan, one of the District's top priorities is to tailor learning for every student's strengths, needs, and interests while empowering student voice and choice in what, how, when and where they learn.
To meet this goal, the Keystone Oaks School District will implement a Learner Profile for all students during the 2022-2023 school year. Over the past two years, Keystone Oaks administrators, building principals, and teacher leaders have worked together to develop Keystone Oaks' Learner Profile and to develop a plan for how the Learner Profile will be utilized at the elementary and secondary levels.
As we prepare to implement the Learner Profile, we have put together the following frequently asked questions to help all stakeholders understand what a Learner Profile is and how it will benefit students, educators and families.
A Learner Profile is a document that a student creates together with their teachers, counselors, administrators, and parents/guardians to reflect upon their learning. The teachers and the student build on their personalized portrait to establish learning goals and expectations. This tool allows teachers to better understand their students and provide learning opportunities that ensure their success.
All students have strengths, challenges, interests, talents and aspirations, as well as family, cultural, and community factors that impact their learning. A Learner Profile serves multiple purposes, including:
At Keystone Oaks, the Learner Profile is a Google Slides presentation that will include a student's interests, strengths, challenges, goals, assessment data, and other information.
Each student will have their own Learner Profile that can only be viewed by them, their teachers, their school counselor, their building principal, and their parent/guardian. Students will have access to this tool 24/7, giving them the opportunity to reflect on their learning anytime and anywhere.