During the 2023-24 school year, KnowledgeWorks convened Lead for Learners Network Steering Committee members to set priorities for network growth and impact. These educators identified transformational leadership capacity as one of the biggest barriers to sustaining the shift to personalized, competency-based learning, and the Portrait of a Leader project emerged as a priority action step.

Through 280+ surveys, 18 focus groups and design workshops with more than 90 educators from across the country, KnowledgeWorks’ Lead for Learners network is defining the priority knowledge, skills and dispositions educators need to drive innovative, learner-centered change through personalized, competency-based learning.