"The best educational technology projects are those that
start with the education, rather than the technology."
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Our mission is to help schools get a richer picture of
student learning through the use of digital portfolios.
We can help you collect, select, and reflect and show
student growth over time.
Digital Portfolios
Explore our site. You can learn more about:
- Learn how Ponaganset and Mt. Hope High Schools are
using portfolios for Graduation by Proficiency.
- On the radio: Elementary portfolios at Hopkinton, NH
- Newsletter: Using Exemplars with Digital Portfolios
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News and Events
Portfolio 101 This Summer! Get started with digital portfolios this summer! Sign up for our workshops in Tilton, New Hampshire, including both our Portfolio 101 and Schoolwide Rubrics workshops.
See us at NECC in San Antonio! You can learn more about Richer Picture® portfolios at multiple events at NECC - including a half-day workshop, an open session and at our booth! See our list of upcoming conferences.
Summer 2008 sessions on curriculum mapping and digital portfolios. With Dr. Heidi Hayes Jacobs, we are exploring exciting ways to link teacher and student work through curriculum mapping. Learn more at the
Education Week / Technology Counts:
A special report from Education Week describes digital portfolios as an
"alternative approach to assessing progress."
Click here to read the full article and link to the complete "Digital Decade" report.
Workshops at your school:
Check out our list of workshop offerings to help you get started or to help your staff think deeper about assessment.
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Planning for portfolios: who decides?
It might sound odd at first, but schools have more success with digital portfolios when it is NOT considered a technology project.
The success of a digital portfolio project depends on having it fit within the daily activities of teachers and students. Thus, it helps when the people who will actually be implementing the portfolios -- the "end users" -- are involved in the planning.
In the planning stage, what works for many schools is to form a team that includes an administrator (such as a
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