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The Northwest Core Learning Communities

Each core community will build their mission and goals around these student competencies and their content specialty. 

Student Competencies

Communication:

Northwest students will understand the role of writing and speaking in living and learning. 
They will:
  • Use speaking and writing to respond effectively to a variety of purposes and audiences.
  • Understand the relationship between form and content in speaking and writing.
  • Speak and write in a variety of genres and media.
  • Use visuals, non-alphabetic text, and non-verbal components successfully within spoken and written texts.
  • Speak and write individually and as a part of a team to accomplish individual and team goals.
  • Use research effectively in spoken and written texts.
  • Analyze and evaluate their own and others' speaking and writing.

Critical Thinking:

Northwest students will engage in disciplined thought to generate and communicate ideas. 
They will:
  • Assimilate, retain, and interpret information.
  • Utilize information to generate reasonable hypotheses and draw educated conclusions.
  • Elucidate solutions based on these conclusions with the ability to self-evaluate their effectiveness.
  • Recognize that this process is self-reflective and continuous.
  • Produce original expression of ideas.

Managing Information:

Northwest students will locate, retrieve, organize, store, synthesize, and annotate various forms of information.

They will:
  • Access and generate information using contemporary technologies.
  • Evaluate information for currency, usefulness, and accuracy.
  • Reorganize information for purpose.
  • Present information clearly.

Valuing:

Northwest students will understand the formation and context of values.
They will:
  • Evaluate the difference between true and false beliefs, right and wrong actions, as well as those values that underlie artistic expression and make appropriate decisions based on these values.
  • Compare historical and cultural value perspectives recognizing to these cultural perspectives.
  • Recognize the ramifications of value decisions of self and others particularly in team environments.
  • Consider multiple perspectives, recognize biases, deal with ambiguity, and form and defend reasoned positions.