The Richardson ISD board of trustees voted to create a graduate profile during its March 7 meeting.
According to a presentation given at the meeting, the graduate profile will help the district create a clear vision for developing academic measures and plans.
“One of the areas that I saw as an opportunity to have some community input is in what we want for our students when they graduate,” interim Superintendent Tabitha Branum said. “When they walk down the stage and we hand them a diploma, what skills or mindsets do we want to guarantee from our graduates?”
Branum said the last profile analysis conducted by the district was in 2012-13, which was the profile of a learner. The superintendent said it is important for a district responsible for 37,000 students to define the academic benchmarks that Richardson graduates should embody.
