Adaptability
Our students:
Work effectively in a climate of ambiguity and changing priorities.
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Civic Literacy
Our students:
Participate effectively in civic life through knowing how to stay informed and understanding governmental processes.
Exercise the rights and obligations of citizenship at local, state, national, and global levels.
Understand the local and global implications of civic decisions.
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Conflict Resolution
Our students:
Engage in appropriate communication to resolve disagreements peacefully and productively.
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Communication
Our students:
Articulate thoughts and ideas effectively using oral, written, and nonverbal communication skills in a variety of forms and contexts.
Listen effectively to decipher meaning, including knowledge, values, attitudes, and intentions.
Use communication for a range of purposes and audiences (e.g. to inform, instruct, motivate, and persuade).
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Confidence
Our students:
Believe in one’s ability to ultimately attain a defined goal.
Persist to overcome adversity and obstacles to uncover alternate strategies to achieve goals.
Reflect on successes and failures as a means to refine the path moving forward.
Take initiative and act with purpose.
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Contributors
Our students:
Act with integrity and empathy while demonstrating personal accountability and make positive contributions to the world.
Actively pursue opportunities that make a positive difference in the lives of others.
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Conscientious
Our students:
Recognize how personal decisions and actions have an impact beyond oneself.
Demonstrate a diligent work ethic and attentiveness to detail.
Work responsibly by being organized, thorough, and efficient.
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Content Knowledge
Our students:
Develop and draw from a baseline understanding of knowledge in an academic discipline.
Transfer knowledge in combination with new learning to deepen understanding and influence conclusions and solutions.
Use content knowledge in routine, as well as innovative, ways in real-world situations.
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Critical Thinking
Our students:
Understand the “bigger picture” and propose solutions that are mindful to the impact they may have on other parts of a system.
Consistently improve the quality of one’s own thinking by skillfully analyzing, assessing, and reconstructing.
Applies disciplined thinking that is clear, rational, open-minded, and informed by evidence.
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Courageous
Our students:
Demonstrate vulnerability and learn from mistakes.
Engage when the outcome or benefit is unknown or unclear.
Demonstrate mental fortitude to pursue meaningful goals, despite daunting challenges.
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Creativity
Our students:
Demonstrate originality, imagination, and new ways of thinking about things.
Transcend traditional ideas, rules, patterns, and relationships to create new or meaningful ideas, methods, or interpretations.
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Entrepreneurial
Our students:
Think boldly and act courageously to actively seek change.
Imagine new ways to solve problems and create value for others.
Exercise initiative by organizing a venture to take benefit of an opportunity.
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Curiosity
Our students:
Eagerly explore the world around them.
Inquisitively seek answers and understanding.
Are energized by new learning and insights, including those different from currently held ideas, beliefs, and values.
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Empathy
Our students:
Demonstrate awareness, sensitivity, concern, and respect to connect with others’ feelings, opinions, experiences, and culture.
Imagine what others are thinking, feeling, or experiencing.
Vicariously experience the feelings, thoughts, and experiences of others.
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Entrepreneurial
Our students:
Value and embrace diverse cultures and unique perspectives through mutual respect and open dialogue.
Demonstrate personal, civic, social, local, and global responsibility through ethical and empathetic behaviors.
Contribute and take action to make the world a better place.
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Environmentally Responsible
Our students:
Make responsible decisions that consider relationships to natural systems, communities, and future generations.
Recognize society's impact on the natural world (e.g., population growth, population development, resource consumption rate, etc.).
Take individual and collective action towards addressing environmental change.
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Financial Literacy
Our students:
Know how to make appropriate personal economic choices.
Understand the role of the economy in society.
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Leadership
Our students:
Are visionary and inspire positive action in others.
Recognize, invest in, and leverage strengths to build collective ownership and action.
Create the environment or the conditions that empower others to grow and succeed.
Build relationships with others through trust and compassion.
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Innovation
Our students:
Translate original and inventive thinking into viable solutions.
Take risks and know how to develop, organize, and manage new initiatives and/or ventures.
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Integrity
Our students:
Adhere consistently to a set of core values that are evident in choices and behaviors.
Earn others’ trust and respect through honest, principled behaviors.
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Media Literacy
Our students:
Access, select, organize, curate, critically consume and produce relevant information appropriately.
Recognize perceptions, biases, and assumptions in all forms of media.
Apply a fundamental understanding of the ethical, legal, and humanistic issues surrounding the access and use of media.
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Perseverance
Our students:
Exhibit steadfastness in achieving success despite difficulty, opposition, and/or failure.
Embrace the idea that failure is a part of success and quickly pivot to keep moving forward.
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Learner's Mindset
Our students:
Embrace curiosity to experience new ideas.
Possess the desire to learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Find and maximize opportunities to actively listen and elicit diverse perspectives from others.
Develop positive attitudes and beliefs about learning.
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Rational Optimism
Our students:
Recognize challenges, use enthusiasm and energy to influence others, and marshal resources to move forward.
Exhibit mindsets which include hope and gratitude.
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Resourceful
Our students:
Access, select, and use resources efficiently and wisely to achieve success.
Transfer and adapt learnings from diverse experiences.
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Problem Solving
Our students:
Identify, evaluate, and prioritize solutions to difficult or complex situations.
Implement and reflect critically on a solution.
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Self/Goal-Directed
Our students:
Proactively organize tasks and actions and thoughtfully make decisions, prioritizing short-term and long-term goals.
Initiate and take action independently, leveraging resources to accomplish goals.
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Technology Literacy
Our students:
Leverage appropriate tools to consume, create, communicate, and connect.
Adapt to constantly evolving tools and appropriately integrate into daily life.
Act with an understanding of the ethical, legal, and humanistic behavior surrounding the access and use of technology and human-machine interaction.
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Responsibility
Our students:
Act honestly and demonstrate care for the interests of the larger community and greater good.
Honor commitments and own the outcomes, whether positive or negative.
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