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Intellectual Prowess
How we define it:
The ability to integrate and apply knowledge and skills (e.g. literacy, numeracy, critical thinking, SEL, professional skills, etc. to address complex challenges and tasks).
How do we get there?
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Strong Sense of Self & Us
How we define it:
An understanding of who you are as an individual, how you are connected to others in the world and how to effectively collaborate with all people.
How do we get there?
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Creates Impact
How we define it:
The ability to exercise agency, collaboratively take actions to address challenges, and develop solutions that make our community a good place to live for all.
How do we get there?
Learners demonstrate Intellectual Prowess through the following skills and competencies:
as inquirers
🔍 Define a problem to be tested by a scientific investigation and inquiry beyond the standards (SEP)🔍 Ask questions to clarify ideas, problems, processes, criteria and/or constraints. (SEP)🔍 Plan and conduct investigations to test hypotheses, answer questions, or test solutions to problems. Including how to ensure fair testing, manipulate the variables, and explain how data will be collected to evaluate the results of an investigation. (SEP)🔍 Sustain enthusiasm, individually and in groups, for learning and applying scientific knowledge
as communicaters
Changemakers live at the intersection of their individual knowledge, skills, and passions. Cultivating the arts creates a balance between work and community engagement with self-expression and self-understanding.
At LEAD, these experiences include:
Dance
Digital and fine art
Music
Theatre / performance
Fashion design
as thinkers
Changemakers live at the intersection of their individual knowledge, skills, and passions. Cultivating the arts creates a balance between work and community engagement with self-expression and self-understanding.
At LEAD, these experiences include:
Dance
Digital and fine art
Music
Theatre / performance
Fashion design
being knowledgeable
Changemakers live at the intersection of their individual knowledge, skills, and passions. Cultivating the arts creates a balance between work and community engagement with self-expression and self-understanding.
At LEAD, these experiences include:
Dance
Digital and fine art
Music
Theatre / performance
Fashion design
Learners demonstrate a Strong Sense of Self & Us through the following skills and competencies:
being open-minded
👐🏾 Seek and evaluate a range of points of view
👐🏾 Grow from our experiences and/or feedback that we receive
staying balanced
⚖️ Manage & balance different aspects of our lives—intellectual, professional, physical, and emotional—
⚖️ Use strategies to achieve well-being for ourselves and others from diverse backgrounds
⚖️ Recognize our interdependence with other people and with the world in which we live.
being reflective
🔁 Reflect on the ethical and moral dimensions of scientific research, the problems that are investigated and their impact on people, animals, and the environment.
🔁 Organize yourself to drive your own learning, and adjust learning plans and lines of inquiry after reflecting on one's goals, plans, and progress.
🔁 Explain improvements that would meet the needs of the target audience.
as caring collaborators
💙 Show empathy and respect for the implications of science on society and the environment.
💙 Act to make a positive difference in the lives of others and the world around us.
💙 Collaborate effectively across diverse groups to accomplish a common goal.
Learners demonstrate the capacity to Create Impact through the following skills and competencies:
as inquirers
🔍 Define a problem to be tested by a scientific investigation and inquiry beyond the standards (SEP)🔍 Ask questions to clarify ideas, problems, processes, criteria and/or constraints. (SEP)🔍 Plan and conduct investigations to test hypotheses, answer questions, or test solutions to problems. Including how to ensure fair testing, manipulate the variables, and explain how data will be collected to evaluate the results of an investigation. (SEP)🔍 Sustain enthusiasm, individually and in groups, for learning and applying scientific knowledge
as communicaters
Changemakers live at the intersection of their individual knowledge, skills, and passions. Cultivating the arts creates a balance between work and community engagement with self-expression and self-understanding.
At LEAD, these experiences include:
Dance
Digital and fine art
Music
Theatre / performance
Fashion design
These competencies were informed by: IB Science Guide , IB’s Approaches to learning, The NGSS PE’s, CCC’s and SEPs. Thinking and Doing Skills
Evidence of Learning and Teaching
Module Life Cycle & Where Assessments Fall
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STOP THIS IS TOO COMPLICATED TO UNDERSTAND
How our STEM Instruction and Program of Inquiry grows: a metaphor
- Our Purpose and Vision - the pot in which everything is held. Made from our beliefs and intentions for this work
- Our Focus - the soil, filled with the ideas that power the lesson, and from which everything else grows!
- Our Pedagogical Approach - the watering can! specific instructions for structuring the learning
- How our STEM Instruction and Program of Inquiry is made: a metaphor
- Our Purpose and Vision - the mixing bowl in which everything is held. Made from our beliefs and intentions for this work