Student EI, Portrait of a Graduate Technology Request a Demo
Portrait of a Graduate Technology

From Portrait to Evidence.

A Portrait tells us what we want students to become. Student EI helps districts show how students are developing those competencies and provides evidence that they can demonstrate them.

Make your Portrait of a Graduate visible, measurable, and credentialed.

Request a Demo See what we do
One system.
From learning to credential.
1
Assess
2
Learn
3
Demonstrate
4
Reflect
5
Transfer
6
Measure
7
Credential
For district leaders
You already have the Portrait.
Students are already developing these skills.
Teachers are already creating the learning experiences.

Student EI connects it all and gives the district evidence that it is happening.

The problems we solve

"We created a Portrait of a Graduate. Now what?"

Districts have defined the skills and competencies they want every student to develop. The challenge is moving the Portrait from vision to implementation and creating credible evidence that students are actually developing the skills districts say matter.

"How do we get this into classrooms?"
"How do we do this without adding another program for teachers?"
"How do we know students are actually developing these competencies?"
"What counts as evidence?"
"How do we measure growth over time?"
"How do we know a skill demonstrated in one classroom transfers somewhere else?"
"How do we maintain consistent rigor across different schools and experiences?"
"How do we credential proficiency rather than participation?"
"How do we demonstrate that our Portrait of a Graduate is actually working?"
What we do

From vision to evidence.

Student EI gives districts a system to make durable skills intentional, visible, measurable, transferable, and credentialed through the learning and experiences already taking place.

Bring durable skills into everyday learning

Students develop durable skills every day through classroom assignments, projects, labs, presentations, athletics, clubs, volunteering, work, and experiences outside of school. Student EI connects those experiences to the district's Portrait of a Graduate, without creating a separate curriculum or asking teachers to do more.

Connect academic learning and durable skills

Academic learning and durable-skill development happen together. Student EI connects what students know and understand, what they do with that knowledge, and how they approach and carry out the work using durable skills and competencies.

Capture authentic demonstration

Students demonstrate competencies in different ways and in different settings. Student EI captures evidence from authentic experiences, so districts can recognize what students can demonstrate, not simply whether they completed an activity.

Build learning transfer

A durable skill becomes more meaningful when a student can recognize it and apply it in different situations. Student EI helps students connect skills across subjects and settings, including classrooms, athletics, clubs, community, home, volunteering, and work.

Measure growth and create credible evidence

Evidence from authentic student experiences provides visibility into how durable skills are developing over time. Leaders can see where students are growing, identify gaps, support educators, and understand whether their Portrait is becoming part of the student experience.

Maintain consistent rigor

Learning experiences do not have to look identical to produce meaningful, consistent evidence. Student EI provides a common framework for measuring demonstrated skills and recognizing proficiency across schools.

Recognize and credential what students can demonstrate

Credentials give students meaningful evidence of what they can demonstrate across different learning experiences. The focus is not simply participation. It is demonstrated proficiency supported by evidence.

Give district leaders visibility

Student EI turns student evidence into actionable insight: student growth, demonstrated competencies, learning transfer, credential progress, and Portrait of a Graduate implementation across schools.

Who it's for

How Student EI creates value.

Academic learning and durable-skill development happen together. Students apply knowledge, demonstrate durable skills in authentic experiences, reflect on how those skills were used, transfer them to other contexts, build evidence, and progress toward credentials.

For teachers

Works inside the lessons teachers already teach.

No separate durable-skills curriculum, and no new subject to teach.
Identifies the durable skills already present in assignments, projects, labs, presentations, and group work.
Skill Builders that reinforce durable-skill awareness, reflection, and learning transfer.
A way to provide evidence of what students actually demonstrate during authentic activities.
A consistent language and framework across subjects and grade levels.

For students

Makes the Portrait something students can understand, experience, demonstrate, and show evidence of.

Understand what durable skills are and why they matter.
Gain awareness of strengths and areas for growth.
Reflect on how those skills were demonstrated.
See that durable skills are transferable, not tied to one class or assignment.
Earn credentials based on demonstration, not merely participation.
Understand it → Practice it → Demonstrate it → Transfer it → Credential it.

For districts

Moves a Portrait of a Graduate from vision to implementation.

A district-wide system instead of disconnected classroom initiatives.
Consistent rigor across schools, whether rural, suburban, or urban.
Visibility into student growth across classrooms, grade levels, schools, and the district.
Actionable data to inform planning, professional learning, instruction, and resource allocation.
A way to communicate progress to boards, families, communities, and other stakeholders.
Define it → Integrate it → Measure it → Validate it → See it → Improve it.

For states

Infrastructure to take competency-based education from policy to practice.

Supports competency-based and demonstration-based approaches to learning and graduation.
Lets statewide expectations coexist with local district Portraits and local learning experiences.
Common expectations for rigor without requiring identical experiences.
Equitable recognition of student skills across rural, suburban, and urban communities.
Infrastructure for credentialing demonstrated competencies at scale.
Establish expectations → Enable local implementation → Maintain rigor → Recognize proficiency → Measure progress at scale.
Why Student EI

We connect the entire continuum from learning to credential.

We don't just define durable skills.
We assess and measure them.
We don't separate durable skills from academics.
We connect them to authentic learning.
We don't require a separate curriculum.
We work within learning already taking place.
We don't stop at the classroom.
We capture learning transfer across contexts.
We don't measure participation.
We build evidence of demonstrated proficiency.
We don't stop at measurement.
We credential demonstrated growth and proficiency.
We don't replace a district's Portrait of a Graduate.
We operationalize it.
We don't require identical student experiences to create consistency.
We provide a consistent framework for evidence and proficiency.
We don't give districts another initiative.
We connect the initiatives and learning experiences they already have.
The bigger value

Student EI is bigger than a durable-skills assessment platform.

The district is not simply getting a way to assess durable skills. It is getting a system that connects what students learn, how they use durable skills, whether those skills transfer to other contexts, how growth is measured, and the evidence needed to recognize and credential demonstrated proficiency.

Read the 2026 Portrait of a Graduate white paper
Science

The science behind our technology.

Designed to inform instruction and support student growth, not to label or limit potential.

Student EI's proprietary assessments are developed and scored in collaboration with behavioral scientists, psychometricians, and organizational psychologists. They are grounded in evidence-centered design and established measurement principles to support reliability, consistency, and defensible interpretation of durable skills and Portrait of a Graduate competencies.

These assessments measure how students demonstrate key competencies and attributes, providing a structured and consistent approach to understanding skill development. They capture observable behaviors and patterns, creating a clear view of how students align to a district's Portrait of a Graduate.

This approach gives districts a reliable way to measure, track, and understand competency development over time, ensuring consistency across classrooms and schools.

Results reflect demonstrated patterns at a point in time and are used to guide development, reinforce strengths, and support continued progress.

About Student EI

Operationalizing the Portrait of a Graduate.

Student EI provides the technology that connects academic learning, durable skills, authentic demonstration, learning transfer, measurement, and credentialing to a district's Portrait of a Graduate.

We use the district's own competencies and priorities rather than replacing them with a new Portrait. Evidence comes from actual learning experiences, and it creates a longitudinal picture of student development rather than disappearing when an assignment, semester, or school year ends.

Skills that will shape a student's future are too important to be left to chance, and too important not to measure.

Request a demo

Make your Portrait of a Graduate visible, measurable, and credentialed.

Whether you're curious about features, a demo, or even press, we're ready to answer any and all questions.