Critical Academic Skills: The 4Cs
These academic requirements are embedded across all projects.
Students will…
1. Work Collaboratively
- Engage in team building activities that promote cooperation, understanding and respect.
- Participate in collaborative, curriculum-based, academic experiences such as partner work and working in groups of three or more, with designated roles.
- Complete ongoing and culminating group projects with individual roles and responsibilities that require consensus building and group problem solving.
2. Think Critically
- Create original work requiring analysis and evaluation of multiple sources including, but not limited to, text, data, and media.
- Solve problems that require the application of high school level math concepts to real world situations that are integrated with other subject areas.
- Utilize inquiry methods as a component of the scientific process and as a strategy to explore other subject areas.
3. Communicate Effectively
- Engage in a creative process to produce work in the visual, media, performing, or literary arts.
- Produce analytical writing, including persuasive paragraphs and a five-paragraph, thesis-driven essay that utilizes a writing process to brainstorm, write, revise and edit.
- Prepare and deliver formal and informal oral presentations to peers and/or community members.
4. Contribute Socially
- Examine, analyze, and apply understanding of social justice issues.
- Engage productively and meaningfully in curriculum-based, community-oriented experiences, in class or in the field, that involve people or organizations from outside the school.
- Identify, articulate, and implement actions that can lead to positive personal and social change.
Critical Behavioral Skills: The 4Cs
These behavioral skills are embedded across all projects.
Students will…
1. Work Collaboratively
- Be supportive of your peers and encourage them to succeed.
- Turn in your cell phone so you can work with others without interruption.
2. Think Critically
- Do the right thing because it's the right thing to do
- Make choices considering the impact of your actions on the community.
3. Communicate Effectively
- Communicate with peers and staff respectfully.
- Listen to others with empathy, care, and understanding.
4. Contribute Socially
- Respect the space and everyone in it.
- Arrive at school substance-free so you are ready to be on task.
This page was last updated on September 4, 2022