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Character & Leadership (Beta)

CL2.1.e. Create and innovate

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Students demonstrate creative thinking, innovativeness, originality, and an openness to challenge assumptions, traditions, and preconceptions by re-classifying, recategorizing, re-organizing, or rearranging information; assembling, combining, integrating, and reconciling divergent theories and approaches; and by supplementing existing theories and explanations with new perspectives or approaches. Using these high-level cognitive skills students are able to: 1) Devise original, fresh, and unique ideas (i.e., “thinking outside the box”) to solve problems, to improve current practices or develop wholly new approaches. 2) Produce original and inventive creative works (e.g., literature, art, or technology).

CL4.1.a. Emotions and their impact

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Students demonstrate the ability to identify, label, verbalize, and understand the emotions they experience, the sorts of situations that cause them, and how their emotions influence their actions. 1) Students monitor their emotions and how they influence the way they perceive and respond to situations. 2) Students recognize and guard against a tendency to exaggerate in their own minds the severity and duration of the consequences of mistakes, embarrassing moments, failures, rejections, and other negative events. 3) Students know to seek help from trusted adults or mental health professionals if they experience severe and prolonged depression or the inclination to harm themselves or others.

CL2.1.f. Concentrate

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Students understand the importance of attentiveness and demonstrate the ability to concentrate (i.e., give focused, undivided attention) in class and while studying by avoiding distractions and focusing on the task of learning.