- Practices responsible decision-making and considers impact on others
- Creates, monitors and reflects upon ambitious and realistic goals
- Builds and sustains strong, healthy relationships
- Advocates for self and others in a socially responsible, empathetic manner
- Employs a growth mindset that includes self-regulation, motivation, and resiliency
Communicates
- Demonstrates and works to develop an understanding of audience and self
- Adapts message, style and tone to the chosen medium, audience, and purpose
- Utilizes clear, concise, and effective oral and written communication
- Listens actively and responds with empathy and respect
- Initiates and sustains meaningful conversation in a variety of settings
Thinks Critically
- Leverages curiosity to identify problems and take intellectual risks
- Examines and challenges assumptions, making decisions based on evidence
- Reasons effectively to make logical judgements and explanations
- Develops a variety of solutions and arguments to authentic problems
- Questions one’s own thinking, reasoning and beliefs
Embraces Diversity
- Intentionally develops and shares identities and intersectionality of self
- Respects diverse backgrounds and seeks varied points of view to deepen understanding
- Creates community through mutual respect
- Understands own biases and reflects on them regularly
- Actively works to develop empathy for others
- Finds opportunities to embrace and affirm one’s authentic self
Creates
- Solves real problems that are passion and purpose driven, in local community and around the world
- Generates original ideas, solutions, and products in imaginative ways
- Open and responsive to new ideas and perspectives
- Extracts learning from failure to move ideas forward
- Reflects meaningfully on feedback while able to set aside personal biases.
- Novel use and application of prior knowledge
Collaborates
- Inspires and motivates others toward a common purpose
- Takes responsibility for self and team through shared, focused leadership
- Receives, provides and learns from constructive feedback
- Values and understands mutual accountability to the mission
- Optimizes digital tools to learn and grow with others
- Is generous in sharing ideas with others