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Portrait of the Graduate

Overview

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    • Develop effective oral, written, and digital communication skills.
    • Use a variety of modalities and tools to express and share ideas.
    • Engage in active listening and respectful discourse to advance understanding.
    • Use interpersonal skills to learn and work with individuals from diverse backgrounds.
    • Write with precision, clarity, and coherence appropriate to the task and audience.

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    • Work effectively with others to solve problems and accomplish goals.
    • Respect and accept diverse perspectives.
    • Build consensus when making decisions.
    • Participate in thoughtful discussions.
    • Seek and use constructive feedback to adapt ideas and persist in accomplishing difficult tasks.

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    • Demonstrate curiosity and creativity through questioning and exploration.
    • Take risks and view failure as an opportunity to learn.
    • Apply knowledge to new contexts and across disciplines.
    • Think outside the box by developing original solutions to a problem.

  • Illustration of diverse hands reaching towards a central orange circle, with figures holding signs and a globe.

    • Actively engage in and take ownership of learning, school, and extracurricular activities.
    • Act responsibly and ethically to benefit the broader community.
    • Work effectively with people from a range of social and cultural backgrounds.

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    • Self-reflect and reason effectivity.
    • Ask meaningful questions.
    • Strategize how to apply learned knowledge to new situations.
    • Evaluate ideas and information sources for validity, relevance, and impact.
    • Synthesize information from multiple viewpoints.
    • Reason through and weighs evidence to form conclusions.
    • Reflect and seek out feedback to review, revise, and refine work.