Students show Creates & Innovates skills in the classroom in the following ways:

• Produces new and useful ideas

• Recognizes connections between learning and out of school settings

• Reflects on one’s role and ways to contribute to self and others’ well being

• Takes risks and learns from failure

• Develops interactive work products

Challenges in this competency area may show up as:

• Bare minimum effort

• Using the same tools/strategies/products over and over again

• Taking ideas of others and passing them as their own

• Unable to connect ideas and work to out of school settings or to the problem they seek to resolve

• Difficulty recovering from setbacks

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Students show Obtains Knowledge Through Inquiry & Exploration skills in the classroom in the following ways:

• Demonstrates curiosity and open-mindedness

• Asks purposeful questions

• Takes logical steps towards goals

• Makes reasonable judgments after looking at facts and data

• Uses multiple sources of data

• Looks at problems in more than one way

• Anticipates likely outcomes

• Engages in problem-based learning

Challenges in this competency area may show up as:

• Cheats

• Rushes through work

• Head on desk/passive defiance

• Overfocus on barriers

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Students show Respectful Relationship skills in the classroom in the following ways:

• Understands perspectives of others, even when different from theirs

• Understands emotions of others, even when different from theirs

• Cares about the perspectives and emotions of others

• Mindfully listens to others

• Resists interrupting

• Understands different expectations of different settings

• Stands up for others when necessary

• Shows appreciation

• Desires to contribute to the community

Challenges in this competency area may show up as:

• Makes fun of other students

• Gossips

• Argues

• Talks Back

• Shows little interest in the feelings of others

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Students show Communication, Collaboration, & Critical Thinking skills in the classroom in the following ways:

• Participates meaningfully in conversations and projects

• Uses academic language in speaking and writing

• Encourages and compliments others

• Allows others think time and opportunity to focus

• Shares materials and takes care of materials shared

• Demonstrates leadership appropriately

• Demonstrates followership appropriately

• Identifies social problems and solves them accordingly

• Resists negative peer pressure

• Copes with negative comments from peers

• Gives and receives feedback appropriately

Challenges in this competency area may show up as:

• Ignores the ideas of some

• Talks over some

• Acts like a clown to get peer attention

• Follows inappropriate behaviors of peers

• Lets everyone else do the work

• Speaks too harshly in feedback situations

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Students show Adapt and Persevere skills in the classroom in the following ways:

• Using a Growth Mindset

• Managing their emotions/using coping skills

• Reframing negative emotions with positive emotions (i.e. nervous vs. excited or down vs. need to recharge)

• Try their best

• Express high expectations for themselves

• Tolerance for task completion

• Continuing to try even with unexpected changes and/or setbacks

• Setting personal and collective goals and sticking with them

Challenges in this competency area may show up as:

• Profanity

• Tantrums

• Quitting easily

• Often avoids low preference tasks

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Students show Self-Knowledge and Personal Responsibility in the classroom in the following ways:

• Ability to identify their own emotions in the moment

• Ability to connect their emotions and feelings to behaviors

• Development of a sense of purpose

• Articulating personal values

• Trying something after observation/encouragement/imagination

• Self-motivation skills

• Carry themselves with confidence

• Overcoming self-doubt

• Asks for feedback

• Give an opinion when asked

Challenges in this competency area may show up as:

• Frequent somatic complaints (with no identified medical issue)

• Makes excuses to leave often

• Unable to identify personal strengths or passions

• Problems self-monitoring emotions

• Perfectionistic to point of inability to complete work

• Or - needs one to one support to complete all tasks, even simple ones

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