Competency & Indicators

Grade 8 Performance Outcome Statements

Grade 12 Performance Outcome Statements

Projects & Tasks

Communicator

• Applies logic and reasoning in order to convey ideas accurately and clearly in a variety of formats (written, verbal, digital, etc.)

• Actively listens to others

• Uses multimedia/digital formats to convey ideas effectively to an authentic audience 

• Advocates for self and others

• Develops clear and accurate claims, using credible, relevant & sufficient evidence to support their ideas

• Organizes ideas in a clear, coherent, and logical way.

• Accurately uses academic, professional, or industry-specific language to convey skills and knowledge and to explain ideas

• Intentionally selects and moves fluently between academic/professional and informal/cultural language when conveying ideas

• Demonstrates active listening by asking relevant questions and constructs direct, clear and relevant responses to questions

• Demonstrates appropriate use of body language, pace, timing, eye contact, and volume to support audience understanding

• Creates various digital/visual/multimedia displays to support audience understanding 

• Something about advocacy needed. 

• Present to congress on a personal and relevant topic

• Run for a government office

• Student produced national broadcasting network

• Developing and presenting a business plan

• Grant writing

• Defense of learning

• Student led conferences

Collaborator

• Works effectively with diverse groups to accomplish a goal

• Considers multiple perspectives & ideas in order to build positive relationships and resolve conflict constructively

• Gives and receives feedback to improve work, accomplish a goal or complete a complex task

• Uses technology and digital tools to work productively with others

• Strategically implements appropriate cooperative strategies and technologies to make decisions, adjust to dynamic situations, and accomplish goals 

• Analyze own perspective and synthesize multiple and varying perspectives/ideas to manage conflicts and solve problems

• Implements, evaluates, facilitates, and adapts processes for providing and receiving constructive feedback, and synthesizes and incorporates feedback from multiple sources to improve outcomes and work

• Critiques personal strength and areas of growth, and analyzes/evaluates the impact their actions had on outcomes and group dynamics

• Interacts with respect and sensitivity to culture/background

Innovator

• Analyzing outcomes

• Analyze & evaluate info

• Employs and can justify decision making process using research

• Making connections and transferring info

• Organized thought process

• Creating new understanding

• Determine our why, purpose

• Questioning purpose, process, input, limits, status quo, etc.

• Creates original works that demonstrates thoughtful & reflective approaches

• Generates authentic, complex questions/ideas and designs, executes, and evaluates multiple logical ways to investigate 

• Apply and explain a deliberate process to complete a complex task

• Synthesizes ideas from various disciplines to create something new or original.

• Facilitates processes to receive feedback from various sources (move to collaboration?)

• Analyze evidence/information/data for bias, relevance, and credibility

• Analyzes risks, known and unknown, anticipates successes and challenges, and adapts action an approach to achieve desired outcomes

• Explains and evaluates their successes, challenges, and current limitations, and explains and evaluates how they adapted their approach to successfully achieve desired outcomes

Citizen

• Self-regulation/self-control

• Understanding others and self

• Seeks cultural understanding

• Relates to others

• Active listener

• Appreciating differences

• Analyzes how my own and other’s identities and lived experience influence perspectives, interactions, language and understandings of situations, events, issues, or phenomena

• Analyzes root causes of a local, community, or global issue from the perspectives of those most impacted, and analyzes the impact of prior approaches/solutions from various perspectives, especially those most impacted

• Develop and implement individual/collective action that addresses a local, community, or global issue in ways that are beneficial to myself and others, especially those most impacted by issue, and evaluate the impact of the action.

• Use and facilitate democratic processes to listen to various perspectives and promote a sense of belonging and community across differences

• Analyze and justify how personal actions and decisions show respect for cultures and beliefs, especially across difference

• Design a personal community project for change through partnerships with a local, national, or global organization and travel to see it through

• Place based education

Mastery Learner

• Demonstrates knowledge and skills on traditional and more personalized assessments

• Applies knowledge and skills to new and authentic contexts in order to extend or challenge what they already know

• Persists through and learns from challenges

• Reflects on how they make meaning of their experiences and world around them

• Makes appropriate choices to further their learning and growth 

• Analyzes and critiques connections between their own and others ideas/solutions/ products/work in order to extend or challenge knowledge

• Analyzes and critiques how completing learning tasks/assignments/projects helped to develop skills needed in the real-world and/or deepen interdisciplinary knowledge and skills

• Synthesize their ideas/learning and draws connections to other knowledge, skills, and authentic contexts

• Applies knowledge to practical and authentic contexts/situations

• Evaluates and revises academic & professional goals for transition readiness, creates post-secondary plans, takes action to accomplish post-secondary plans, evaluates effectiveness of actions, and makes appropriate adjustments

• Work in their career pathway

• Run a farm to table (self-sustaining) restaurant

• Travel abroad

• Extreme PE

• Researcher in local lab

• App creator

• Volunteerism

• Docent at museum

• Start a business

• Run for office

• TEACH - like we do!

• Cure a disease

• Change the trajectory of their graduation