Defined Goals

BEYOND TEST SCORES: ASSESS FUTURE-READY SKILLS FOR SUCCESS

Today’s students need more than content knowledge to thrive in the innovation economy. Your Portrait of a Graduate defines the skills and competencies that students need to develop in order to be successful in school, work, and life. Career-connected deeper learning and project-based learning provide students with the opportunity to build and practice those skills. With Defined Goals, educators have high-quality performance tasks aligned to your district’s Portrait of a Graduate goals and tools to measure and monitor growth toward those goals.

Defined Goals enhances Defined Learning and Defined Careers by providing customized implementation, measurement, and reporting that captures progress in competencies traditional assessments cannot measure. Through authentic, career-connected experiences, Defined Goals demonstrates how students develop and apply deeper learning competencies, offering unique insights into skills like critical thinking, collaboration, communication, and many more. Watch Now >

How it Works

DETERMINE OUTCOMES & METRICS

Through a consultative process, we'll discuss the goals and content areas you want to measure. These could include a Portrait or Profile of a Graduate, a Career and Academic Plan, 4Cs/5Cs, Global Competencies, Workforce or Career Ready Frameworks, or any other initiative. Our expert-guided approach ensures your vision becomes an actionable framework unique to your district's needs. Once your framework is established, we'll collaborate to select projects from Defined's award-winning platforms that align with and support your goals.

CUSTOMIZE CATALOGS & ALIGN TO GOALS

The Defined team works with you to create a catalog of selected projects that align with your scope and sequence. We then customize the rubrics to match your specific goals and the competencies you wish to build and measure. Language and tags specific to your district are added to the rubrics for effective scoring and reporting.

ACCESS ON-DEMAND REPORTING

Get immediate insights through our comprehensive reporting. The Defined Goals reports provide real-time data that can be filtered to track progress and measure growth toward your specific Portrait of a Graduate or other initiatives. Our Performance Indicators Report measures student progress in your selected competencies through rubric-based assessment and our Plans Report monitors self-reported student progress toward customized learning goals. Access the data you need when you need it to inform instruction and monitor student development.

CUSTOM PLANS

Schools and districts also have the option to add custom plans such as a Portrait or Profile of a Graduate to Defined Goals. Defined works with schools and districts to define and analyze skills and performance indicators broken down by grade band and content area to align with their goals to ensure all students are developing key future-ready skills in alignment with school, district, and state-wide initiatives.

Defined Goals Analytics & Insights

See how our enhanced data and analytics can help you unlock insights and leverage our career-connected deeper learning solutions to support student success toward your Portrait or Profile of a Graduate goals.

Read the Research

Learn how Defined Goals helps schools and districts across the country implement and measure skills and competencies students need for future success!

Portrait of a Graduate Handbook: How to Successfully Build and Implement Your Portrait of a Graduate

This EBook draws from a three-year longitudinal study of Broken Arrow Public Schools and provides comprehensive guidance for educational leaders seeking to implement a Portrait of a Graduate framework in their districts. Read the EBook >

Building Tomorrows Skills: Look Fors to Support Defined & Project-Based Learning

View this reflective guide for a comprehensive checklist outlining key indicators of effective project-based learning that incorporates performance tasks, career relevance, and the application of transversal skills in the classroom. Read the Guide >

How PBL Builds Portrait of a Graduate Competencies

In this guide, learn why project-based learning is one of the most effective ways schools and districts embed Portrait of a Graduate goals in their curriculum and instruction. Read the Guide >

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Why Choose Defined Goals?

Let Defined help you unlock your school or district's potential and empower your students with the knowledge and skills they need for graduation and beyond.

Schedule a call to learn how we can help you meet your goals and put your students on a pathway to a promising future.