Read with comprehension, write with skill, and communicate effectively and responsibly in a variety of ways and settings. Think analytically, logically, and creatively, and to integrate experience and knowledge to form reasoned judgments and solve problems. Understand the importance of work and how performance, effort, and decisions directly affect career and educational opportunities. Students understand how knowledge can be integrated across curricular areas.
Students access community resources to make connections between present learning and career goals.
Integrated classroom teachers develop models to assess student ability to connect learning across disciplines. Data collected on student participation. Anecdotal summaries by students of experiences in the community. Students demonstrate sophisticated presentation skills using various methods including contemporary technology. Students demonstrate skill in finding, processing and applying knowledge to real life situations in order to solve problems and make reasoned judgments.