Network Resources
Resources to Move Learning Forward
Explore tools, research, and practical guidance designed to advance future-ready, learner-centered education practices that are aligned to the Nevada Portrait of a Learner. Whether you’re a policymaker, school leader, educator, parent, student, or community member, you’ll find resources tailored to your specific role and impact.
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Activators Guide
Ready to move the Portrait off the page and into motion? The Activators Guide is your go-to launchpad for transforming Nevada’s educational vision into real-world impact. Whether you are a classroom educator designing competency-based lessons, a school leader aligning systemic structures, or a policymaker considering future-ready ecosystems, you’ll find the practical toolkits, step-by-step strategies, and resources to activate your next steps.
Network Insight Briefs
Data proves it: learner-centered education transforms outcomes. This collection of data-oriented briefs breaks down the measurable, real-world impact of participating in the Nevada Future of Learning Network. Packed with concrete evidence, these briefs provide school architects, educators, and policy champions with the hard numbers and proof points needed to show how future-ready education transforms everything from classroom morale to long-term economic vitality.
Portrait of a Leader Guide
We know the future of learning isn't built alone. It happens when bold leaders show up intentionally for their communities. This two-part resource provides a Self Reflection Guide to anchor your leadership style in whole-learner values, followed by an outline of Strategies for Community Engagement and Professional Learning to help you make a plan to scale your breakthroughs system-wide.
Building a Culture of Data
How do we measure what truly matters in a learner-centered system? This guide equips school and district leaders with practical strategies to foster an actionable continuous improvement culture. Learn how to surface timely, whole-learner insights and how to utilize both qualitative and quantitative data to safely foster classroom innovation and amplify growth.
Credentialing Learning Outside of School
True learning is limitless and unconfined by a school building. This guide provides families, caregivers and students with a straightforward tool to recognize and credential the critical skills learners develop in their communities. By transforming state policy into actionable daily practice, this guide can help learners build a compelling, evidence-backed narrative of their personal growth for portfolios and graduation defenses.
Workforce/CTE Kit
Connect the dots between classroom learning and real-world success! The Workforce/CTE Kit is the ultimate toolkit for bridging the gap between the Portrait of a Nevada Learner framework and future-ready career pathways. Built as a shared launchpad for both the students navigating their next steps and the leaders designing the systems to get them there, this kit puts possibility to work for tomorrow's workforce.
Community & Family Kit
Education doesn’t stop at the classroom doors, it takes an entire collaborative ecosystem to prepare every Nevadan to contribute to a thriving state. The Community & Family Kit is the ultimate launchpad for connecting our classrooms with our living rooms and local neighborhoods. Built as a shared resource for both families at home and partners in the community, this kit translates the Portrait framework into a common, shared language to support and celebrate whole-learner growth from early childhood through graduation.
Case Studies
Ready to see what the future of learning actually looks like? Dive into these data-driven case studies spotlighting the real-world engagement, measurable progress, and emerging impact of four trailblazing Nevada school districts and schools. Move beyond abstract theory and explore the concrete evidence, localized breakthroughs, and tangible results of putting the Portrait framework to work. Perfect for educators, system leaders, and policymakers looking for data-backed inspiration.
Nevada Innovation Guide
Ready to transition educational innovation from static ideas into daily practice? This strategic guide maps out concrete action areas for systemic change, links them to enabling policies, and showcases real district examples of success. Built specifically to inspire and orient system leaders, it offers a practical roadmap to design, test, and scale future-ready learning models across your community.
Nevada Policy Primer
Ready to maximize your district's planning and decision-making power? The Nevada Policy Primer is an essential, "policy-at-a-glance" tool designed to help leadership teams confidently navigate state policy. This resource organizes available policy levers into actionable topics, provides district-level interpretations, and outlines step-by-step considerations for local application.
Campus & District Leaders Kit
Ready to scale future-ready innovation across your entire system? The Campus & District Leaders Kit is your operational playbook for embedding the Portrait of a Nevada Learner framework deeply into your schools. Designed specifically for system architects, administrators, and leadership teams, this comprehensive toolkit provides the communication tools, alignment protocols, and engagement strategies needed to build institutional coherence and guide continuous improvement.
Student Kit
Updated Resource Description: Ready to take control of your own learning journey and build a future you love? The Student Resources Kit is your personal launchpad for self-discovery, voice, and whole-learner growth. Designed specifically for young people navigating the Portrait of a Nevada Learner, this toolkit translates big educational ideas into everyday habits, giving you the exact keys you need to track your strengths, set your own goals, and unlock your ultimate potential.
Learning Progressions
Updated Resource Description: Ready to translate high-level vision into clear, observable student behaviors? The Portrait-Aligned Competency and Rubric Learning Progressions Framework is a comprehensive, PreK-12 system built to track whole-learner growth from early learning all the way through graduation. This master roadmap breaks down our four core Portrait domains - Empowering, Connecting, Impacting, and Thriving - into age-appropriate competencies and leveled rubrics that make student progress visible and actionable in daily learning. Perfect for educators calibrating expectations or leaders aligning system-wide implementation and improvement!
Facilitate Your Own Crosswalk: Local and State Portraits
Ready to align your community's unique educational vision with Nevada's statewide Portrait framework? This detailed guidebook has been designed to help district planning teams seamlessly identify points of coherence between local and state portraits. Explore a step-by-step collaborative process along with structured crosswalk tools to uncover points of coherence, eliminate redundancy, and build institutional alignment using a readymade, customizable auditing process rooted in your local identity.
Facilitate Your Own Crosswalk: Standards and Portrait
Ready to bridge the gap between rigorous academic benchmarks and whole-learner skills? This practical guide is designed to help district planning teams and educators identify exactly where portrait-aligned competencies and Nevada standards intersect. This resource provides a clear, collaborative process along with readymade mapping examples across core content areas and grade bands to simplify your roadmap to instructional alignment.
Portrait of a Learner Introductory Resources
Ready to build broad public understanding and get your community excited about future-ready education? These Portrait of a Learner Introductory Resources are your complete media package of teacher-friendly one-sheets, scannable flyers, and vibrant visual graphics designed to introduce the Portrait of a Nevada Learner framework. Perfect for sharing with families, onboarding new committee members, or anchoring community co-creation events, this kit translates complex systemic design into clear, inspirational takeaways that anyone can grasp at a glance.
Teacher Kit
Ready to foster joy, curiosity, and deep agency in your classroom? The Teacher Kit is a curated collection of teacher-friendly, bite-sized one-pagers designed to take the guesswork out of the Portrait of a Nevada Learner framework. Built specifically for classroom innovators, this toolkit breaks down exactly what learner-centered, future-ready education looks like in daily practice, giving you actionable resources to maximize whole-learner growth without adding to your workload.