Where do we store and manage hundreds of portfolios per teacher per year? How do I create a system to organize and archive my students work?
A. Each school’s PBGR team should address this challenge in line with the district’s guidance and support. Communities are working hard to develop systems for properly recording and storing student work. Districts and schools must look toward solving this problem over a period of time. For example, districts who have selected portfolio as the PBGR requirement are planning to implement systems that will educate students to be personally responsible for storing their own work. As a core subject area teacher, you should advocate for the arts to be included in any school plans if they are not already. In the meantime, teachers and students are digitally photographing and scanning student work and storing them in “student drives” at school. Some teachers and students are saving digital work to discs labeled by graduation class or student name. Some schools are providing portfolios and physical space at school to store work. Some are simply keeping paper records for each student with plans t
