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21 ST CENTURY LEARNING: ESSENTIAL CAPACITIES<br />

Our charge is to prepare students to be productive citizens. To enable our students’ success in the 21 st<br />

Century, we must ensure that each student acquires basic competencies in all subject areas and<br />

develops the following essential capacities.<br />

Knowledge<br />

Students will develop the following capacities:<br />

‣ Accessing and navigating large quantities of information and evaluating the validity and<br />

relevancy of this information<br />

‣ Making broad connections between topics and identifying interrelationships<br />

‣ Operating safely within the cyberspace community<br />

‣ Engaging in meta-cognition to understand and improve capacity for learning<br />

‣ Reflecting in order to anchor learning and to gain self-knowledge<br />

Communication<br />

Students will develop the following capacities:<br />

‣ Communicating effectively orally and in writing<br />

‣ Articulating a position persuasively and supporting it with evidence<br />

‣ Presenting a message with a compelling voice and crafting effective presentations<br />

‣ Working in different groups and communicating appropriately with an audience<br />

Problem Solving<br />

Students will develop the following capacities:<br />

‣ Adapting, demonstrating flexibility and resiliency<br />

‣ Applying acquired skills and strategies to solve problems<br />

‣ Thinking critically and creatively<br />

‣ Taking intellectual risks and exploring multiple solutions to a problem<br />

‣ Asking questions to promote understanding<br />

Relationship/Interpersonal Skills<br />

Students will develop the following capacities:<br />

‣ Accepting responsibility<br />

‣ Collaborating effectively and working in a team productively<br />

‣ Cultivating meaningful relationships, developing connections, and developing respect<br />

and empathy for others<br />

‣ Demonstrating a passion for a learning and a desire to excel<br />

‣ Demonstrating ethical behavior<br />

‣ Modeling the IUSD core values of integrity, trust, collaboration, empowerment, and<br />

learning<br />

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