Something that caught my eye is the amount of perspectives there can be in a situation, like one side could have a the other persons back because they saw what they saw, the same could be said for the opposite side. I tend to try to expand on how people think of a person and what could go through their brain whenever processing a situation.
Awty's Values, Heard In Student Voice
Every word on the left is Awty's own, from its published purpose and values. Pick a value to see what IMPACTER listens for, what each rubric level sounds like, and a student who reached the top.
In Grade 1, teachers Muhammad Ahmed and Deborah Drummer build lessons around "provocations," set up to spark student questions. "Curiosity is the cornerstone of my teaching philosophy," M. Ahmed says. Ms. Drummer's students call their room "curious, creative, and fun." The Learner Portrait shows where that curiosity goes by Grade 12. From "First Grade Teachers Embed Curiosity in Learning," Awty Insider, May 2025.
Where Awty Students Are Strongest
Average Learner Portrait score out of 800, fall to spring, for the 1,103 students who answered in both windows. Open any value to see how students moved across the four rubric levels, by division, and what a top answer sounded like.
Kindness is where Awty students start strongest. Community, measured as Perspective-Taking, is where they grew fastest: 554 to 635, with 563 of 1,103 students at Advanced or Exemplary by spring.
Awty Students Learn To See The World From Somewhere Else
On most competencies, Awty students look like students at strong Houston-area schools. On Perspective-Taking, they pull away, and the gap widens every year they are here. Switch competencies to compare.
Spring score out of 800 by grade. Shaded band: the middle half of Houston-area students in the same grades, answering the same prompts.
Students from over 50 countries, speaking over 40 languages, in one community. Now Awty can show what that does for every student: it is the measure that sets Awty apart.Countries and languages as published at awty.org/about.
Admissions And Enrollment
A tour line no other Houston school can say: "Our students grow in perspective-taking faster than students across the region, and here is the evidence, in their words."
The Tuition Conversation
Families compare test scores and college lists. This is the thing they cannot get elsewhere, shown by grade, so a Grade 4 parent sees where their student is headed.
The Board
Proof of what makes Awty, Awty. One trend line, refreshed each fall and spring, tied directly to the Community value in the strategic plan.
Three Exemplary Answers, Annotated
Each answer below scored 800, the top of the scale. Press play and follow along: the transcript lights up word by word, and each marker on the timeline is a moment the rubric heard. Click a marker or a highlighted phrase to jump there.
Heard In French, Scored The Same
Awty students live in two languages, so the Learner Portrait does too. A student can answer in French and be read against the same rubric, on the same 800-point scale, as a student answering in English. The translation is there for the advisor or parent reading it. Hover a highlighted phrase to see it in both languages.
The three French answers here are simulated, written for this sample to show how a French answer appears in the report. They are not real student speech.
What It Sounds Like When A Student Grows
Every score comes from something a student said or wrote. These are verbatim, shown by grade only. The highlighted words are what the rubric heard.
…she only spoke Spanish. So nobody really knew how to talk to her so she didn't really have any friends, but my parents were using Spanish. So each day, I would ask them what I should say to her…
…you really have to change how you're talking and you have to change how you're explaining things because they won't understand what you're talking about.
…Do we see the same colors as everyone else? Like it's just the human world is so fascinating and it's like crazy how far we've come.
…I learned that I'm a risk-taker and that I That is kind of scary, but I still did it and it made me feel good.
answers like these, each one scored against Awty's values and searchable by grade, value, level and language.
Sample
One Page Per Student, In Awty's Language
The same evidence, turned into a page a Grade 10 student can take home and an advisor can plan from. Built around strengths first, then the path ahead.
- Top three strengths, each with the student's own words
- All six Awty values with levels, fall to spring
- Careers where these strengths matter, by career cluster
- One answer in French, with the English alongside
- A next step for the student and a conversation starter for the advisor
What Awty Can Do With This
Specific uses, starting the week the spring results arrive.
Advisory And Homeroom
Each advisor sees their students' strongest value and one to grow, with the student's own words as the conversation starter.
Admissions Story
The Perspective-Taking trend line and two or three student clips, ready for the tour, the open house and the viewbook.
Board Dashboard
Curiosity, Courage, Kindness and Community as four numbers with denominators, fall and spring, year over year.
Parent Conferences
A one-page student portrait in Awty's language: what your student said, where it landed, and what comes next.
IB And French Program Evidence
Student voice evidence in English and French for IB evaluation and accreditation self-study, organized by value and grade, not assembled by hand.
Division Planning
See where Primary, Middle and Upper School students are strongest, so each division leader picks one value to push next year.