• articulate ideas and convey messages to others in a clear, creative, and effective manner.
• write logically structured and coherent documents that demonstrate a sense of appropriateness to audience, purpose and context.
• speak with poise, a command of language, a clear organization of ideas, and a sense of appropriateness to audience, purpose, and context.
• express themselves through a world language and the languages unique to the arts.

• read and listen in order to acquire, evaluate, analyze and synthesize information from a variety of media.
• engage in the recursive process of asking critical questions, generating hypotheses, viewing problems from multiple perspectives, and pursuing answers through research, experimentation and/or computation.
• formulate recommendations based on findings.
• demonstrate a capacity for aesthetic critique and evaluation.

ACTIVE AND COLLABORATIVE COMMUNITY MEMBERS
WHO CONTRIBUTE TO A PRODUCTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT AND WHO BUILD A COMMUNITY DISTINGUISHED BY QUALITIES OF EMPATHY AND RESPECT:

• demonstrate integrity, personal accountability and support for others as a member of the school and larger communities.
• participate in civil discourse and the democratic process.
• experience various cultures and groups in order to understand, appreciate, and respect differences.
• make authentic connections between school curriculum and the wider world which result in community service.

REFLECTIVE AND INFORMED DECISION MAKERS
WHO USE LEARNING TO MAKE AND EVALUATE LIFE CHOICES:

• demonstrate regularly the skills of reflection and self-evaluation.
• develop an appropriate post-secondary education and/or career plan.
• apply the knowledge and skills necessary to lead a healthy and active life.
• acquire, articulate and apply self-knowledge in a variety of contexts.