Digital Badges
Student Portfolios
Individual 
Academic Badges
CTE / Career Badges
Extracurricular Badges
Professional Portfolios
Common Assignments / Schoolwide Rubrics
Tracking Student Hours
Professional Development
Accreditation Support - Vision of a Graduate
Data Dashboard
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The Richer Picturecast highlights the potential of digital portfolios and badges for students and teachers to document and highlight powerful learning. We will also explore project-based learning and alternative forms of assessment.
Digital Badges and the Portrait of a Learner
Marisa Stankiewicz and Heather Taylor from Putnam (CT) High School describe how all students complete Digital Badges representing their school's Portrait of a Learner - and then go to complete badges showing their readiness for their personal college and career goals. (Episode 204)
Digital Badges and Individual Learning Plans
Individual Learning Plans (ILPs) help students become "college or career ready." In this episode, Amy Roy of Westerly (RI) High School discusses how Richer Picture helps students connect their goals with the opportunities they have available to them right now in middle and high school. (Episode 203)
Digital Badges and the Vision of a Graduate
In this episode, Anthony Marsella and Tiffany Risch, faculty members at Coventry (RI) High School, discuss how they created their Vision of a Graduate and how the whole school is engaged in helping students demonstrate the vision in all of their classes. (Episode 202)
How can CTE programs use digital badges to show student progress?
As CTE student enrollment continues to increase, listen to how one urban school district easily tracks each student's progress while easing the faculty's administrative challenges. Catherine Rickert, Director of the Woonsocket Area Career and Tech Center in Rhode Island, shares how they use digital badges to show student achievements, reduce teacher time and easily meet the local and state requirements. In this podcast, Catherine is joined by David Niguidula, Founder of Richer Picture, and host Bill Carozza, a Professor at Keene State University and former New Hampshire School Principal. (Episode 201)
Sharing Portfolios with Employers, Colleges and More
Students often what to share their badges and portfolios with audiences outside of their school. In this episode, we talk about how students can set up their portfolios for this purpose. Typically, students set up a "tour" - a subset of the work they have collected - for the audience they have in mind. We'll discuss strategies for setting up tours for employers, college admissions or placement, and other audiences. (Episode 108)
Portfolio Reviews and Rituals
As students complete their portfolios, how can they show off their accomplishments? In this episode, we discuss strategies for reviewing portfolios, from parent-teacher conferences to special end-of-year review sessions. You'll hear about how students can create "tours" of their best work and how they can demonstrate a school's vision of a graduate. (Episode 107)
Setting Goals - and Meeting Them! - Individual Learning Plans
Individual Learning Plans (also known as Personal Learning Plans or Student Success Plans) are common in schools across the country. Students set academic, career, college and personal goals. But what if students had a better way to keep track of their progress? In this episode, host Bill Carozza and David Niguidula discuss how Richer Picture can help students, counselors, parents and advisors set better goals - and track their progress. (Episode 106)
Making Initiatives Sustainable
Developing a successful initiative such as implementing digital portfolios can be an exciting venture, but a favorable outcome is far from guaranteed without reflection and preparation. On today's show, Richer Picture founder David Niguidula and host Bill Carozza will discuss the factors you should consider when embarking on a new initiative in your school or district. (Episode 105)
Badges and Personalization
How can digital badges help students express who they are as individuals? In this episode, Richer Picture founder David Niguidula and Bill Carozza discuss how students can demonstrate their skills and their interests with digital badges. (Episode 104)
Digital Badges - Student Experiences and Assessment
Students are learning all the time - and digital badges provide students an opportunity to show what they know. In this episode, host Bill Carozza talks with David Niguidula about how digital badges and portfolios can capture student experiences - and how the use of portfolios can help schools think differently about assessment. (Episode 103)
CTE - Digital Badges to Innovate Career and Technical Education
CTE is all about helping students gain the skills they need - and Digital Badges can help students show what they know! Join our host, Bill Carozza, as he talks with David Niguidula, Founder of Richer Picture about new Innovations in Career and Tech Education. (Episode 102)
Welcome!
Welcome to the RicherPictureCast! In this podcast, you'll hear about exciting topics in education, and how students can show that they are meeting standards - while showing who they are as individual learners. In this opening session, our host, Bill Carozza, a long-time principal and education, talks with David Niguidula, the Founder of Richer Picture about Digital Badges and Portfolios. (Episode 101)
The Richer Picturecast highlights the potential of digital portfolios and badges for students and teachers to document and highlight powerful learning. We will also explore project-based learning and alternative forms of assessment.
Digital Badges and the Portrait of a Learner
Marisa Stankiewicz and Heather Taylor from Putnam (CT) High School describe how all students complete Digital Badges representing their school's Portrait of a Learner - and then go to complete badges showing their readiness for their personal college and career goals. (Episode 204)
Digital Badges and Individual Learning Plans
Individual Learning Plans (ILPs) help students become "college or career ready." In this episode, Amy Roy of Westerly (RI) High School discusses how Richer Picture helps students connect their goals with the opportunities they have available to them right now in middle and high school. (Episode 203)
Digital Badges and the Vision of a Graduate
In this episode, Anthony Marsella and Tiffany Risch, faculty members at Coventry (RI) High School, discuss how they created their Vision of a Graduate and how the whole school is engaged in helping students demonstrate the vision in all of their classes. (Episode 202)
How can CTE programs use digital badges to show student progress?
As CTE student enrollment continues to increase, listen to how one urban school district easily tracks each student's progress while easing the faculty's administrative challenges. Catherine Rickert, Director of the Woonsocket Area Career and Tech Center in Rhode Island, shares how they use digital badges to show student achievements, reduce teacher time and easily meet the local and state requirements. In this podcast, Catherine is joined by David Niguidula, Founder of Richer Picture, and host Bill Carozza, a Professor at Keene State University and former New Hampshire School Principal. (Episode 201)
Sharing Portfolios with Employers, Colleges and More
Students often what to share their badges and portfolios with audiences outside of their school. In this episode, we talk about how students can set up their portfolios for this purpose. Typically, students set up a "tour" - a subset of the work they have collected - for the audience they have in mind. We'll discuss strategies for setting up tours for employers, college admissions or placement, and other audiences. (Episode 108)
Portfolio Reviews and Rituals
As students complete their portfolios, how can they show off their accomplishments? In this episode, we discuss strategies for reviewing portfolios, from parent-teacher conferences to special end-of-year review sessions. You'll hear about how students can create "tours" of their best work and how they can demonstrate a school's vision of a graduate. (Episode 107)
Setting Goals - and Meeting Them! - Individual Learning Plans
Individual Learning Plans (also known as Personal Learning Plans or Student Success Plans) are common in schools across the country. Students set academic, career, college and personal goals. But what if students had a better way to keep track of their progress? In this episode, host Bill Carozza and David Niguidula discuss how Richer Picture can help students, counselors, parents and advisors set better goals - and track their progress. (Episode 106)
Making Initiatives Sustainable
Developing a successful initiative such as implementing digital portfolios can be an exciting venture, but a favorable outcome is far from guaranteed without reflection and preparation. On today's show, Richer Picture founder David Niguidula and host Bill Carozza will discuss the factors you should consider when embarking on a new initiative in your school or district. (Episode 105)
Badges and Personalization
How can digital badges help students express who they are as individuals? In this episode, Richer Picture founder David Niguidula and Bill Carozza discuss how students can demonstrate their skills and their interests with digital badges. (Episode 104)
Digital Badges - Student Experiences and Assessment
Students are learning all the time - and digital badges provide students an opportunity to show what they know. In this episode, host Bill Carozza talks with David Niguidula about how digital badges and portfolios can capture student experiences - and how the use of portfolios can help schools think differently about assessment. (Episode 103)
CTE - Digital Badges to Innovate Career and Technical Education
CTE is all about helping students gain the skills they need - and Digital Badges can help students show what they know! Join our host, Bill Carozza, as he talks with David Niguidula, Founder of Richer Picture about new Innovations in Career and Tech Education. (Episode 102)
Welcome!
Welcome to the RicherPictureCast! In this podcast, you'll hear about exciting topics in education, and how students can show that they are meeting standards - while showing who they are as individual learners. In this opening session, our host, Bill Carozza, a long-time principal and education, talks with David Niguidula, the Founder of Richer Picture about Digital Badges and Portfolios. (Episode 101)
