Creative & Critical Thinker

• Accesses, creates, and uses information in novel and creative ways to strengthen comprehension and deepen awareness.
• Expresses thoughts, ideas, and emotions meaningfully through various avenues including the arts.
• EVealuates ideas and information sources for validity, relevance, and impact.
• Understands academic concepts and is able to apply and transfer that knowledge in to multiple settings.
• Knows how to adopt in response to dynamic situations, environments, and complex problems.

Self-Directed

• Exhibits a growth mindset and works through challenges showing tenacity, resilience, self-regulation, and self-advocacy.
• Persists to accomplish difficult tasks and to overcome academic and personal barriers.
• Perseveres through challenging situations, takes calculated risks, and stands accountable for his/her actions.
• Takes initiative and exhibits an entrepreneurial and curious disposition. 
• Uses time and financial resources wisely to set goals, complete tasks, and manage projects.

Contributing Citizen

• Understands the foundations of our country and values our rights, freedoms, privileges, and responsibilities.
• Demonstrates empathy, compassion, and respect for others while promoting resource and environmental stewardship
• Acknowledges and understands diverse perspectives and cultures when considering local, national, and world issues.
• Demonstrates personal, civic, social, and global responsibility by taking active roles in the community.
• Contributes to solutions that benefit the broader community

Solution Seeker

• Evaluates, weighs evidence, and applies reasoned decision-making to problems.
• Uses imagination, innovation, and ingenuity to solve problems.
• Understands and considers multiple viewpoints, options and outcomes of decisions.
• Engages in problem solving, inquiry, and design of innovative solutions to  overcome obstacles to improve outcomes.
• Exhibits flexibility and innovation to design solutions to complex problems.

Collaborator

• Works together with others,  harnessing the power of teamwork, and understands the importance of influence to motivate others to get things accomplished.
• Respects divergent thinking to engage others in thoughtful discussion.
• Demonstrates the ability to work interdependently within a group to promote learning, increase productivity, and achieve common goals.
• Analyzes and constructs arguments and positions to ensure examination of a full range of viewpoints.
• Gives and receives feedback with tact and grace and disagrees respectfully.

Collaborator

• Effectively communicates in written, digital, artistic, and oral forms for various purposes and audiences to convey understanding and concepts.
• Employs active listening strategies to advance understanding and makes meaningful connections.
• Speaks in a purposeful manner to inform, influence, motivate and entertain listeners.
• Explores and articulates their own points of view, while respectful-ly exploring and understanding the perspectives of others.
• Uses technological skills and cotemporary digital tools to explore and exchange ideas.

Solution Seeker

• Generates both questions and solutions that reflect ethical and moral thinking.
• Exhibits integrity, honesty, empathy, fairness, and respect.
• Reasons through and weighs evidence to reach ethical conclusions.
• Acts responsibly and ethically to build trust and to lead.
• Exhibits curiosity and evaluates ideas based on evidence and knowledge.