IB MYP Passport

Beginning with the 2026–2027 school year, Herbert A. Ammons Middle School is transitioning from the traditional IB Student Portfolio to the new IB MYP Passport.

The MYP Passport provides students with a more meaningful and manageable way to document their learning and growth throughout the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme (MYP).

Instead of assembling a large portfolio at the end of the school year, students complete Passport requirements throughout the year as part of their regular classes. The new format increases student ownership, strengthens reflection, and integrates the MYP more authentically into everyday classroom learning.

Who completes it?
Every Herbert A. Ammons Middle School MYP student.

When?
Throughout the school year.

Final Deadline:
March 31 of each school year

How is it scored?
The MYP Passport is worth 100 points. Students must earn at least 70 points to successfully complete the Passport.

The MYP Passport is a record of each student's learning journey throughout the school year.

Students will:

The Passport provides evidence of each student's academic growth, conceptual understanding, reflection, participation, service, and development as an MYP learner.

The MYP Passport was created to:

Although the format has changed, the purpose remains the same: to celebrate and document student learning, growth, reflection, accomplishments, challenges, service, and participation throughout the MYP.

Each subject area identifies a classroom assignment connected to its assigned IB Global Context.

The assignment is completed as part of regular classroom instruction and is entered into the teacher's gradebook.

After completing the designated Global Context assignment, students must complete the required MYP Passport Student Reflection.

The reflection asks students to think more deeply about the learning experience and make connections to the Global Context, Key Concept, ATL Skills, IB Learner Profile, and the real world.

The teacher reviews the designated classroom assignment and the completed MYP Passport Student Reflection.

The Student Reflection is also a graded component and should appear in the teacher's gradebook.

After the required work has been successfully completed, the teacher verifies completion by signing the appropriate section of the student's MYP Passport.

Teacher signatures provide evidence that the corresponding Passport requirement has been completed and allow the student to earn the associated Passport points.

Students repeat this process as Passport learning experiences are completed in their different classes.

Students should complete assignments and reflections when they are assigned rather than waiting until the end of the school year.

The MYP Passport is worth a total of 100 points.

Students must earn 70 points or higher to successfully complete the MYP Passport. A score of 69 points or below is not passing.

Because completed and verified Passport requirements contribute toward the student's total score, missing assignments, reflections, or signatures can result in lost points.

MYP Passport requirements are completed throughout the school year as part of regular classroom instruction.

Each subject determines when its designated Global Context learning experience will occur based on its curriculum and instructional timeline.

Students should complete the required Student Reflection when directed by their teacher so that the assignment, reflection, grade, and Passport verification can all be completed while the learning experience is still fresh.

Herbert A. Ammons Middle School provides designated Passport Days during the school year when students have an opportunity to obtain required teacher signatures and review their progress.

Passport Days occur during two general windows:

Specific dates and directions will be provided during the school year.

Students should complete requirements as they are assigned and address missing work well before the March 31 deadline.

The official MYP Passport is maintained by the student's Homeroom Teacher, who serves as the student's Passport "Travel Agent."

Students receive access to their Passport when needed for Passport Days, Service & Action documentation, teacher verification, or other designated activities.

Students are responsible for following school and teacher directions when using the Passport and returning it to Homeroom as directed.

Most MYP Passport assignments and Student Reflections are completed as part of regular classroom instruction.

Teachers may require students to submit assignments digitally through Google Classroom and/or maintain copies of work in Microsoft OneDrive.

Digital records, along with teacher gradebooks, help document student completion and provide evidence if a Passport requirement later needs to be verified.

Students should maintain digital copies of Passport assignments and reflections through the end of the school year.

Families are also encouraged to periodically review grades in the school's gradebook. Required Passport assignments and Student Reflections should appear in the appropriate teacher's gradebook.

Documents and resources will be added to this section to help students and families successfully complete the MYP Passport.

Global Contexts are an important part of the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme.

They help students answer an important question:

Global Contexts help students connect classroom learning to real-world issues, experiences, people, places, cultures, ideas, and perspectives.

Each subject area at Herbert A. Ammons Middle School provides students with a learning experience connected to one of the six IB Global Contexts.

Students must complete both:

The teacher reviews the required work before verifying the Passport requirement.

Each completed and verified Global Context requirement contributes points toward the student's MYP Passport score.

Reflection is one of the defining characteristics of an IB education.

Reflection encourages students to think about what they learned, recognize their growth, identify connections to MYP concepts and skills, and understand how classroom learning connects to the world around them.

After completing a designated Global Context assignment, students complete the MYP Passport Student Reflection provided by their teacher.

Students are expected to provide thoughtful, complete responses using specific examples from the assignment and learning experience.

The reflection asks students to consider:

Participation beyond the regular classroom helps students develop interests, talents, leadership, collaboration, and connections to their school and community.

Students maintain an Extracurricular Activity Log and complete the required Extracurricular Activity Reflection.

The Individuals & Societies Department reviews and verifies the completed Extracurricular Activity Log and Reflection.

Completion of this requirement contributes points toward the student's Passport score.

Approaches to Learning (ATL) Skills help students become increasingly independent and successful learners.

The five ATL Skill categories are:

Students reflect on and monitor their ATL development throughout the year.

The student's Homeroom Teacher reviews and verifies the ATL requirement in the MYP Passport.

Completion of this requirement contributes points toward the student's Passport score.

Service as Action is an important part of the MYP experience and encourages students to become caring, active members of their communities.

Service hours are tracked from year to year.

Students who do not complete all required hours in a school year will have the missing hours doubled and added to the following year's requirement.

Herbert A. Ammons Middle School provides opportunities for students to participate in approved school-based Service & Action activities throughout the year.

Directions for documenting and verifying hours will be provided for each activity. Students should follow the procedures provided for that specific activity and make sure their service is recorded in the MYP Passport.

Students may also complete approved service with a NONPROFIT organization.

Outside service must be supported by appropriate documentation from the organization showing the activity performed and the number of service hours completed.

Outside service documentation should be submitted to the IB MYP Coordinator for approval. Once approved, students should provide the appropriate evidence to their Homeroom Teacher so that the hours can be recorded and verified in the MYP Passport.

Students are responsible for providing the required evidence or documentation to their Homeroom Teacher and ensuring that their service hours are properly recorded.

Students should monitor their service hours throughout the year and should not wait until the March 31 deadline to address missing hours or documentation.

Students should review their progress throughout the school year to ensure Passport assignments, Student Reflections, Service & Action requirements, Extracurricular Activity requirements, ATL verification, and teacher signatures remain up to date.

Families are encouraged to monitor the teacher gradebook for required Passport assignments and Student Reflections.

Regular progress checks allow students to address missing requirements early and help prevent problems as the March 31 deadline approaches.

Students are responsible for:

Parents and guardians are important partners in the Passport process.

Families can help by:

Yes. Beginning with the 2026–2027 school year, the MYP Passport replaces the former IB Student Portfolio.

The purpose remains similar, but the new Passport integrates MYP learning and reflection more naturally into regular classroom instruction and gives students greater ownership of the process.

Yes. Students must complete the required Student Reflection after each designated Global Context assignment.

Yes. The MYP Passport is worth 100 points, and students must earn 70 points or higher to pass.

Individual Passport assignments and Student Reflections are also recorded in the appropriate teacher's gradebook.

A missing signature means that the corresponding Passport requirement has not been verified and the student may not receive the points associated with that requirement.

Students should address missing signatures throughout the year and during designated Passport Days.

Students do not need a perfect 100-point Passport to pass; however, they must earn at least 70 points.

The official MYP Passport is maintained by the student's Homeroom Teacher and is provided to students when needed for Passport activities and verification.

Yes. Families are strongly encouraged to review Passport progress throughout the school year and monitor required assignments and reflections in the teacher gradebook.

No. The Passport is completed throughout the school year as students complete designated learning experiences in their different classes.

The school can issue a replacement Passport. Teachers may use gradebook records, Google Classroom submissions, OneDrive files, and other available evidence to verify previously completed requirements.

If completion cannot be verified, the student may need to complete the missing requirement again.

The student's Homeroom Teacher verifies all Service & Action hours in the MYP Passport.

Outside service completed with a NONPROFIT organization must first be submitted to the IB MYP Coordinator for approval.

The Individuals & Societies Department reviews and verifies the Extracurricular Activity Log and Reflection.

The student's Homeroom Teacher reviews and verifies the ATL Skills requirement.

Students and families should contact:

The MYP Passport celebrates each student's unique learning journey through the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme.

More than a collection of assignments, it provides a record of academic achievement, conceptual understanding, reflection, skill development, service, participation, and personal growth.

Through the MYP Passport, students are encouraged to become increasingly responsible for their own learning while developing the knowledge, skills, and attributes of an IB learner.