Stafford Public Schools

16 Levinthal Run, Stafford Springs, CT 06076 | Phone (860) 684-2208 | Fax (860) 684-5172

Communicator

• Develop effective oral, written, and digital communication skills.

• Use a variety of modalities and tools to express and share ideas.

• Engage in active listening and respectful discourse to advance understanding.

• Use interpersonal skills to learn and work with individuals from diverse backgrounds.

• Write with precision, clarity, and coherence appropriate to the task and audience.

Collaborator

• Work effectively with others to solve problems and accomplish goals.

• Respect and accept diverse perspectives.

• Build consensus when making decisions.

• Participate in thoughtful discussions.

• Seek and use constructive feedback to adapt ideas and persist in accomplishing difficult tasks.

Creative Innovator

• Demonstrate curiosity and creativity through questioning and exploration.

• Take risks and view failure as an opportunity to learn.

• Apply knowledge to new contexts and across disciplines.

• Think outside the box by developing original solutions to a problem.

Contributor

• Actively engage in and take ownership of learning, school, and extracurricular activities.

• Act responsibly and ethically to benefit the broader community.

• Work effectively with people from a range of social and cultural backgrounds.

Critical Thinker

• Self-reflect and reason effectivity.

• Ask meaningful questions.

• Strategize how to apply learned knowledge to new situations.

• Evaluate ideas and information sources for validity, relevance, and impact.

• Synthesize information from multiple viewpoints.

• Reason through and weighs evidence to form conclusions.

• Reflect and seek out feedback to review, revise, and refine work.