Profile of a Graduate
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Students, teachers, parents, civic groups and district leaders were asked to identify the traits of a successful graduate as part of community effort to create a Strategic Plan. The following profile emerged of graduates who are politically savvy, globally aware and flexible thinkers. The traits of those graduates include:
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Knowledge
All graduates should exhibit knowledge of:
- At least one additional language
- History
- English
- Mathematics
- Sciences
- Performing and/or Visual Arts
- Technological tools and innovations
- Financial Literacy
- Information Literacy
- Civic Literacy
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Global Awareness
All graduates should be:
- Socially consciousness and involved
- Culturally sensitive
- Tolerant
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Effective Communication
All graduates should have the ability to:
- Listen, comprehend and critique
- Communicate effectively by adapting to diverse audiences, tasks, and disciplines
- Use multiple media to demonstrate their thinking and justify reasoning
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Critical Thinking
All graduates should have the ability to:
- Clearly and precisely identify inquiry questions related to a task
- Analyze and evaluate information, evidence, arguments, claims, and beliefs
- Synthesize information and makes connections between information and arguments
- Demonstrate metacognition
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Creativity
All graduates should have the ability to:
- Demonstrate innovative problem solving by designing unique ideas, solutions, and products, and adapting as necessary
- Take intellectual risks while overcoming challenges and failures within the learning experience
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Collaboration
All graduates should have the ability to work effectively in teams by sharing ideas, sharing responsibilities, and considering multiple perspectives to achieve goals
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An Open Mind
All graduates should have the ability to:
- Establish and display confident and positive behaviors to relate to others and be tolerant of diverse populations
- Advocate for self and others
- Show empathy
- Show compassion
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Resiliency
All graduates should possess the following:
- Flexibility
- Determination
- Passion
- Leadership
- Entrepreneurial mindset
- Physical and emotional wellness
- Initiative and self-direction
- Tolerance
