K-1

2-5

6-8

9-12

K-1

• Kindly talk about ideas

2-5

• Share ideas and showcase learning clearly and respectfully

6-8

• Shares ideas and showcases learning effectively, making assertions and supporting them with evidence in a variety of formats.

9-12

• Demonstrate effective communication skills to produce a final product: e.g., essay, research paper, video, storybook, play, artwork, or technology project and/or develop and deliver an oral presentation

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K-1

• Ask and answer why and how questions

2-5

• Read, listen or observe for comprehension
• Organize information
• Reach a conclusion

6-8

• Reads or observes closely, gathers and organizes relevant information, considers alternate points of view, and determines a conclusion.

9-12

• Read, listen or observe for comprehension, organize information, and apply a conclusion.

K-1

• Find a solution
• Don’t give up

2-5

• Plan
• Apply
• Persevere
• Evaluate
• Reflect
• Identify Next Steps

6-8

• Plans, revises, organizes, implements, reflects and evaluates a task, event, experiment or problem.

9-12

• Plan, organize, implement, reflect and evaluate a task, event, experiment or problem.

K-1

• Share learning in different ways

2-5

• Use a variety of resources proficiently to showcase learning

6-8

• Utilizes a variety of appropriate informational, digital, technology and or creative artistic resources responsibly to demonstrate understanding.

9-12

• Utilize a variety of appropriate informational, digital technology and/or creative artistic resources in a responsible, ethical, and proficient way in order to complete a task.
• Demonstrate proficiency in a project-based application.

K-1

• Think about ways to make your work better

2-5

• Be reflective of work by analyzing, making connections, expanding and making a conclusion.

6-8

• Explores and shares thoughts, observations, and impressions. Determines the success of a chosen path as well as alternatives.

9-12

• Explore and share thoughts, observations, and impressions by analyzing, making connections, elaborating, focusing, and providing a conclusion.

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K-1

• Search to learn new things

2-5

• Create a question (hypothesis) or point of view
• Organize information from multiple sources
• Develop a point of view that you can defend

6-8

• Creates a hypothesis or question to be answered. Determines a plan for discovery. Organizes facts from observation and/or credible sources.
• Demonstrates newly acquired understandings effectively.

9-12

• Create a hypothesis, define a starting position, question or argument; organize information from multiple sources (which may include various forms of print, digital tools, personal interviews and any other information sources that support the research) and construct a defensible argument.