The career portfolio (生涯檔案) is something every junior-high student in Taiwan keeps. It travels with them from 7th grade to graduation: a binder of self-discoveries, interest inventories, course notes, and the occasional honest sentence about what they want to be when they grow up.
在台灣，生涯檔案是每位國中生都會保留的東西。它從七年級陪到畢業：一本記錄自我探索、興趣清單、課程筆記、以及偶爾誠實寫下「我長大想做什麼」的資料夾。
This spring, instead of using a printed cover from a publisher, Yangming invited every 7th-grader to design their own. The assignment was led in counseling-activity class; "the art teachers, helping with judging, were genuinely moved by how carefully the students had drawn," the school wrote. To honor that effort, the panel expanded the "selected" tier specifically to make room for more student work — ending with a roster of 10 Excellence, 10 Honorable, and 16 Selected entries.
今年春天，陽明沒有採用出版社印好的封面。學校邀請每一位七年級孩子親手設計自己的封面。這項任務由輔導活動課的任課老師帶領；「美術老師協助擔任評審工作時，感受到同學們用心繪製。」學校寫道。為了表彰這份用心，評審團特別擴大「佳作入選」名額——最終共有優選 10 名、佳作 10 名、佳作入選 16 名。
The portfolio cover is, ultimately, the first page of three years a student will spend asking themselves: who am I going to be? At Yangming, that question gets to start in the student's own handwriting.
說到底，生涯檔案的封面，是孩子未來三年要不斷問自己「我想成為誰？」這道題的第一頁。在陽明，這個問題的第一筆，是由學生自己畫下的。