Ryle explains Portrait connections and Black Studies crosswalk
Ryle says the Seal allows students to demonstrate Portrait competencies like global citizen and critical thinker. She says DOE created a crosswalk linking social studies units, Civics for All lessons, and Black Studies curriculum.
So for that first question, with Portrait of a Graduate, Portrait of a Graduate is the holistic explanation of what a graduate should have experienced by the time they graduate high school.
What both Civic Readiness and specifically the SEAL of Civic Readiness does is allow for the vehicle for the student to demonstrate those things.
So we see the closest connection to global citizen, critical thinker, and effective communicator.
Obviously, there's connections to the others as well.
But this is really an opportunity that our students are already engaged in to demonstrate that commencement level competency through project-based assessments.
That was your first question.
Your second question.
So the Black Studies is a study of the world curriculum.
We have a crosswalk.
So we have designed our Passport to Social Studies curriculum and the Civics for All curriculum in-house.
What we've created for schools to be able to implement all of those things, because we recognize that's a lot of material to be giving to a teacher.
So first we have a crosswalk that details the social studies units that schools are beholden to.
under the state social studies framework.
And then for each of those units, it includes the lessons from Civics for All that are most relevant there, and then where the lessons from the Black Studies as a study of the world curriculum make sense in terms of the units of study.
We also, through our work with our district points, have been supporting them in thinking about that work as well.