• Engage in a continuum of learning across a broad curriculum, including areas of interest and passion.
• Attain the core knowledge and competencies needed to meet or exceed college and career standards.
• Apply acquired knowledge and skills as deep thinkers and engage in real-world situations, solve problems, and create new knowledge.
• Experience internships, service-learning and career fields, post-secondary options of interest, and develop interviewing skills.

• Understand personal financial responsibilities and actions.
• Make responsible financial plans and decisions.
• Use communication and technological skills and social awareness to present themselves in a variety of formats—through listening, speaking, reading, writing, and artistic expression.
• Use digital media and technology to communicate, solve problems, synthesize information and create new knowledge.
• Manage digital identity thoughtfully and ethically.

• Engage in research to generate original ideas and critique the ideas of others.
• Research to locate information, explore opportunities and deepen understanding.
• Be resourceful and look for multiple perspectives and sources of information.

• Think critically by using reason and analysis to solve problems, make decisions, and draw conclusions.
• Seek and question new knowledge and information to confront emerging challenges and be flexible and adaptable.
• Demonstrate perseverance when tackling complex problems to reach a solution.
• Engage in problem-solving.
• Act on intellectual curiosity by questioning assumptions and evaluating information and perspectives.
• Approach situations with an entrepreneurial spirit.

• Use effective written, verbal, and non-verbal communication skills.
• Collaborate with peers and adults in a variety of settings beyond the classroom and for a variety of purposes.

• Persist in challenging or adverse situations, to achieve goals, and learn from experiences.
• Practice self-efficacy by accepting and embracing failure to elevate.
• Listen to other perspectives to balance ideas and reach positive solutions.
• Examine multiple solutions through abstract thinking.

Personally and Socially Grounded

• Demonstrate a strong sense of purpose of self—believe they have purpose and value; have confidence in their abilities, potential, and agency.
• Exercise emotional intelligence to be aware of, control, and express one’s emotions.
• Handle interpersonal relationships thoughtfully and with empathy.
• Create a safe environment.

• Understand matters of equity, race, and diversity in the world and the community. They will be unrelenting and focused in their pursuit of the elimination of such inequities.
• Advocate for themselves and on behalf of their communities and others.
• Possess the skills to navigate the critical conversations that. precede social change and understand different methods for pursuing social justice.
• Exhibit knowledge of the core principles of democracy and participate and guard civic engagement.

• Exercise cultural humility.
• Demonstrate compassion and cultural awareness for others.
• Study and appreciate cultures outside of their own.