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Graduate Profile

Based on input from students, parents, staff, community members, business and higher education leaders, the District has developed a Graduate Profile. Through this process we have identified specific indicators to measure our graduates’ readiness for success in college and life. 

1. Communicator

○ Listens to understand others

○ Clearly articulate ideas when writing, speaking, and visually, adapting messages to fit the purpose and needs of the audience

2. Collaborator

○ Works effectively with others to accomplish a common goal

○ Engages in positive and productive conflict resolution

3. Innovator

○ Explores multiple possibilities and evaluates relevant information in order to

enact change

○ Perseveres through challenges by using obstacles as opportunities to learn, reflect, and improve

4. Citizen

○ Demonstrates civic engagement by applying knowledge and practical skills to improve communities

○ Posses other mindedness & equity

5. Mastery Learner

○ Demonstrates mastery of content standards

○ Applies content knowledge to real world situations, and transfers knowledge across various contexts and disciplines

 

Sample of a Graduate Profile

Ferguson-Florissant School District Graduate Profile

 

Competency & Indicators

Grade 8 Performance Outcome Statements

Grade 12 Performance Outcome Statements

Projects & Tasks

Communicator

  • Applies logic and reasoning in order to convey ideas accurately and clearly in a variety of formats (written, verbal, digital, etc.)

  • Actively listens to others

  • Uses multimedia/digital formats to convey ideas effectively to an authentic audience 

  • Advocates for self and others

 
  • Develops clear and accurate claims, using credible, relevant & sufficient evidence to support their ideas

  • Organizes ideas in a clear, coherent, and logical way.

  • Accurately uses academic, professional, or industry-specific language to convey skills and knowledge and to explain ideas

  • Intentionally selects and moves fluently between academic/professional and informal/cultural language when conveying ideas

  • Demonstrates active listening by asking relevant questions and constructs direct, clear and relevant responses to questions

  • Demonstrates appropriate use of body language, pace, timing, eye contact, and volume to support audience understanding

  • Creates various digital/visual/multimedia displays to support audience understanding 

  • Something about advocacy needed. 

  • Present to congress on a personal and relevant topic

  • Run for a government office

  • Student produced national broadcasting network

  • Developing and presenting a business plan

  • Grant writing

  • Defense of learning

  • Student led conferences

Collaborator

  • Works effectively with diverse groups to accomplish a goal

  • Considers multiple perspectives & ideas in order to build positive relationships and resolve conflict constructively

  • Gives and receives feedback to improve work, accomplish a goal or complete a complex task

  • Uses technology and digital tools to work productively with others

 
  • Strategically implements appropriate cooperative strategies and technologies to make decisions, adjust to dynamic situations, and accomplish goals 

  • Analyze own perspective and synthesize multiple and varying perspectives/ideas to manage conflicts and solve problems

  • Implements, evaluates, facilitates, and adapts processes for providing and receiving constructive feedback, and synthesizes and incorporates feedback from multiple sources to improve outcomes and work

  • Critiques personal strength and areas of growth, and analyzes/evaluates the impact their actions had on outcomes and group dynamics

  • Interacts with respect and sensitivity to culture/background

 

Innovator

  • Analyzing outcomes

  • Analyze & evaluate info

  • Employs and can justify decision making process using research

  • Making connections and transferring info

  • Organized thought process

  • Creating new understanding

  • Determine our why, purpose

  • Questioning purpose, process, input, limits, status quo, etc.

  • Creates original works that demonstrates thoughtful & reflective approaches

 
  • Generates authentic, complex questions/ideas and designs, executes, and evaluates multiple logical ways to investigate 

  • Apply and explain a deliberate process to complete a complex task

  • Synthesizes ideas from various disciplines to create something new or original.

  • Facilitates processes to receive feedback from various sources (move to collaboration?)

  • Analyze evidence/information/data for bias, relevance, and credibility

  • Analyzes risks, known and unknown, anticipates successes and challenges, and adapts action an approach to achieve desired outcomes

  • Explains and evaluates their successes, challenges, and current limitations, and explains and evaluates how they adapted their approach to successfully achieve desired outcomes




 

Citizen

  • Self-regulation/self-control

  • Understanding others and self

  • Seeks cultural understanding

  • Relates to others

  • Active listener

  • Appreciating differences

 
  • Analyzes how my own and other’s identities and lived experience influence perspectives, interactions, language and understandings of situations, events, issues, or phenomena

  • Analyzes root causes of a local, community, or global issue from the perspectives of those most impacted, and analyzes the impact of prior approaches/solutions from various perspectives, especially those most impacted

  • Develop and implement individual/collective action that addresses a local, community, or global issue in ways that are beneficial to myself and others, especially those most impacted by issue, and evaluate the impact of the action.

  • Use and facilitate democratic processes to listen to various perspectives and promote a sense of belonging and community across differences

  • Analyze and justify how personal actions and decisions show respect for cultures and beliefs, especially across difference

  • Design a personal community project for change through partnerships with a local, national, or global organization and travel to see it through

  • Place based education

Mastery Learner

  • Demonstrates knowledge and skills on traditional and more personalized assessments

  • Applies knowledge and skills to new and authentic contexts in order to extend or challenge what they already know

  • Persists through and learns from challenges

  • Reflects on how they make meaning of their experiences and world around them

  • Makes appropriate choices to further their learning and growth 

 
  • Analyzes and critiques connections between their own and others ideas/solutions/ products/work in order to extend or challenge knowledge

  • Analyzes and critiques how completing learning tasks/assignments/projects helped to develop skills needed in the real-world and/or deepen interdisciplinary knowledge and skills

  • Synthesize their ideas/learning and draws connections to other knowledge, skills, and authentic contexts

  • Applies knowledge to practical and authentic contexts/situations

  • Evaluates and revises academic & professional goals for transition readiness, creates post-secondary plans, takes action to accomplish post-secondary plans, evaluates effectiveness of actions, and makes appropriate adjustments

  • Work in their career pathway

  • Run a farm to table (self-sustaining) restaurant

  • Travel abroad

  • Extreme PE

  • Researcher in local lab

  • App creator

  • Volunteerism

  • Docent at museum

  • Start a business

  • Run for office

  • TEACH - like we do!

  • Cure a disease

  • Change the trajectory of their graduation