You’ve defined your Portrait.
How will students practice it?
Our ready-to-use curriculum builds Portrait competencies through hands-on engineering.
Critical Thinking
Problem Solving
Collaboration
Resilience
We provide both:
Explicit instruction in shared language and tools for building the competencies.
Engineering challenges to help students practice the competencies, long before graduation day.
Because challenges make the skills real.
When the tower leans, the zipline stalls, or teammates disagree, students need to think, collaborate, adapt, and persevere.
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“As a school and district our hopes are to create learners that are creative, empathetic, critical thinkers, that can solve complex problems that are relevant to their lives. Imagineerz aligns with that vision by bringing Design Thinking and the growth mindset together in challenging, hands-on activities.”
Nick Prychodko
Director of Instructional Leadership and Intervention · Cupertino Union School District
Portrait competencies grow through practice across K–5.
Six modules—one for each grade.
Skills build on one another, progressing from regulating difficult moments in kindergarten to collaborating through complex challenges in fifth grade.
Grade K
Regulate
Grade 1
Believe
Grade 2
Solve
Grade 3
Explore
Grade 4
Persevere
Grade 5
Collaborate
Start with one grade
or
Expand across K–5
For every grade
10 lessons
50 minutes each, video-led
1 kit
Across all 10 lessons
0
STEM expertise needed
Teachers just lay out the standard materials and press play.
No lesson-by-lesson kit assembly or supply hunt.
The practice helps the skills transfer into academic learning.
A difficult math problem
“I don’t get this yet.”
Classmates disagree
“What’s your perspective?”
A first draft falls flat
“How can I level this up?”
A few voices dominate
“Step up, step down.”
Portrait to Practice in action
Amy Imai Elementary: seven years of Portrait practice.
For seven years, grade-level teachers at Amy Imai Elementary have used Imagineerz across K–5. Teachers report students using the shared language in class and staying with difficult problems longer.
7
years
1000+
students
K–5
progression
