School and Career Electronic Portfolio Project

The School and Career Electronic Portfolio is an electronic portfolio which organizes and displays student work. The portfolio is organized using the School to Career Competencies and is designed to help students connect their school, workplace and community activities.

The portfolio is organized as a mini-database, using Microsoft Access. Students can attach a wide variety of Portfolio Items, including Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, or Excel files, HTML pages, photos, scanned or photographed artwork, video or music clips, and more. The portfolio also includes a set of Portfolio Tools, including structured essays, a brief career interest inventory, and a copy of the Massachusetts Work-Based Learning Plan. The portfolio uses a Skills List which includes the nine School to Career Competencies plus a tenth competency based on the students' career pathway or subject area. Teachers customize the Skills List with definitions and examples that help students see how these skills relate to their work.

For information about the project, contact Linda Younis at the Boston Public Schools School to Career Office or Jennifer Leonard at The Skills Library.