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Don't navigate this work alone.
Don't navigate this work alone.
Moving a Portrait of a Graduate from vision to implementation raises difficult questions: What do the competencies look like in practice? What counts as evidence? How do we build coherence across classrooms, schools, and systems?
Moving a Portrait of a Graduate from vision to implementation raises difficult questions: What do the competencies look like in practice? What counts as evidence? How do we build coherence across classrooms, schools, and systems?
Redefining Ready NY brings district leaders together throughout the year to learn from one another, see the work in practice, and build practical approaches that fit their own local context.
Redefining Ready NY brings district leaders together throughout the year to learn from one another, see the work in practice, and build practical approaches that fit their own local context.
What Membership Includes:
What Membership Includes:
Monthly Virtual Learning
75-minute sessions featuring district practices, shared learning, peer conversation, and application.
Monthly Virtual Learning
75-minute sessions featuring district practices, shared learning, peer conversation, and application.
Site-Based Learning Visits
See readiness, student agency, authentic learning, and evidence systems in practice inside New York schools.
Site-Based Learning Visits
See readiness, student agency, authentic learning, and evidence systems in practice inside New York schools.
District Spotlights
Learn directly from leaders and practitioners who are moving Portrait work from vision toward implementation.
District Spotlights
Learn directly from leaders and practitioners who are moving Portrait work from vision toward implementation.
Practical Tools & Resources
Access frameworks, implementation tools, district examples, and resources that teams can adapt locally.
Practical Tools & Resources
Access frameworks, implementation tools, district examples, and resources that teams can adapt locally.
A Statewide Peer Network
Connect with colleagues confronting many of the same implementation questions.
A Statewide Peer Network
Connect with colleagues confronting many of the same implementation questions.
Who Should Join?
Who Should Join?
The cohort is designed for:
The cohort is designed for:
- Superintendents and district leaders responsible for advancing Portrait of a Graduate and NY Inspires implementation.
- District leadership teams working to connect Portrait competencies to curriculum, instruction, assessment, evidence, and student experience.
- Building and instructional leaders developing practical ways for students to demonstrate readiness.
- Districts at any stage of the work—from developing a Portrait to building more mature readiness systems.
**Teams are encouraged. Districts gain the greatest value when multiple leaders can learn together and bring the work back to their local teams.
**Teams are encouraged. Districts gain the greatest value when multiple leaders can learn together and bring the work back to their local teams.
WHAT DISTRICTS GAIN:
WHAT DISTRICTS GAIN:
The goal isn't simply to learn about the Portrait of a Graduate. It is to help districts make progress.
The goal isn't simply to learn about the Portrait of a Graduate. It is to help districts make progress.
Throughout the year, cohort members will gain ideas they can use, examples they can adapt, colleagues they can call, and greater clarity about the next steps in their own readiness work.
Throughout the year, cohort members will gain ideas they can use, examples they can adapt, colleagues they can call, and greater clarity about the next steps in their own readiness work.
2026–27 Membership
2026–27 Membership
$1,850 per district
$1,850 per district
Membership provides access to RRNY virtual learning sessions, site visits, cohort learning experiences, and shared resources throughout the 2026–27 school year.
Membership provides access to RRNY virtual learning sessions, site visits, cohort learning experiences, and shared resources throughout the 2026–27 school year.
BOCES AID AVAILABLE
BOCES AID AVAILABLE
Through our partnership with Questar III BOCES, eligible New York school districts can receive BOCES aid for participation.
Through our partnership with Questar III BOCES, eligible New York school districts can receive BOCES aid for participation.
Ready to Join?
Ready to Join?
Registration is coordinated through Questar III BOCES.
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Questions about registration or BOCES aid?
kerry.houlihan@questar.org or claire.carangelo@questar.org
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HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT RRNY?
HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT RRNY?
Want to talk about whether the cohort is a good fit for your district?
Want to talk about whether the cohort is a good fit for your district?
Randy Squier
Program Lead, Redefining Ready NY
redefiningreadyny@gmail.com
518-365-4543
Randy Squier
Program Lead, Redefining Ready NY
redefiningreadyny@gmail.com
518-365-4543
Lead your district in defining, measuring, and implementing what it truly means for students to graduate college, career, and life ready.
Lead your district in defining, measuring, and implementing what it truly means for students to graduate college, career, and life ready.
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