To make teaching and learning more personalized while raising achievement levels, this book provides an engaging, field-tested approach using digital badges and portfolios. It shows how students can meet standards and express their individuality through digital badges and portfolios. Building off an essential question-What do schools want their students to know and be able to do?-it then shows how to implement a proficiency-based approach to student learning that has been successfully field-tested. In manageable steps, readers are guided through the implementation process. The author shows readers how to: connect standards to badges; create portfolio-worthy tasks; develop common rubrics and a common understanding of what is considered good enough
; guide students in curating the elements of their portfolios; and promote authentic student reflection on their work. Includes real-life examples. For principals and teachers who want to take their schools to the next level.