Adaptability
-Work effectively in a climate of ambiguity and changing priorities.
-Demonstrate agility in thoughts and actions.
-Respond productively to feedback, praise, setbacks, and criticism.-Understand, negotiate, and balance diverse views and beliefs to reach workable solutions.
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Civic Literacy
-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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Collaboration
-Honor and leverage strengths to build collective commitment and action.
-Enrich the learning of both self and others.
-Seek, contribute, and respond to feedback to achieve collective outcomes.
-Elicit diverse perspectives and contributions.
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Communication
-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.
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Confidence
-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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Conflict Resolution
-Engage in appropriate communication to resolve disagreements peacefully and productively.
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Conscientious
-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
-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 real-world situations.
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Contributors
-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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Courageous
-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
-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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Critical Thinking
-Understand the “bigger picture” and propose solutions that are mindful of 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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Cultural Competence
-Understand, communicate with, and effectively interact with people across cultures.
-Awareness of one’s own world view.
-Developing positive attitudes towards cultural differences.
-Gain knowledge of different cultural practices and world views.
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Curiosity
-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
-Demonstrate awareness, sensitivity, concern, and respect to connect with others’ feelings, opinions, experiences, and culture.
-Imagine what others are thinking, feeling, or experiencing.
-Imagine the feelings, thoughts, and experiences of others.
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Entrepreneurial
-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 advantage of an opportunity.
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Environmentally Responsible
-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
-Know how to make appropriate personal economic choices.
-Understand the role of the economy in society.
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Global Citizens
-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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Innovation
-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
-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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Leadership
-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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Learner's Mindset
-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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Media Literacy
-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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Networking
-Interacting with others to exchange information and develop professional or social contacts.
-Cultivating productive relationships for business or employment.
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Perseverance
-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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Problem Solving
-Identify, evaluate, and prioritize solutions to difficult or complex situations.
-Implement and reflect critically on a solution.
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Rational Optimism
-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
-Access, select, and use resources efficiently and wisely to achieve success.
-Transfer and adapt learnings from diverse experiences
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Responsibility
-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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Self/Goal-Directed
-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
-Leverage appropriate tools to consume, create, communicate, and connect.
-Adapt to constantly evolving tools and appropriately integrate into daily life.
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