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We decided on the Learning Skills today!

* biblical thinking (CMR & CFR)
* critical thinking (reason & research)
* communication (written, spoken & visual)
* collaboration

We did not include effort/participation as a skill. We also found that technology itself was not so much a skill as the means to practice the skills. 

Additionally, we further defined what "culture creation" might mean: a freshmen orientation that will include both ethos building (relationship/environment/expectations/student voices) as well as skill building (introductions to the 4 skills above). The culture creation will be part of our 1-2 week transition program that will set the stage for learning together all year long.

Our team members also chose the learning skills for which they will develop rubrics.

* biblical thinking (Jeremy & the other new Bible teacher)
* critical thinking (Christine & Nathan)
* communication
  verbal (Vito & Matt)
  visual (Nathan)
  writing (Janna & Josh) 
* collaboration (Grant & Edgar)

As we get ready to build our own rubrics, it might be a helpful starting point to see how another school uses them. Most of the rubric examples (at the link below) are from New Tech High - the "effort" rubric is from Hans' school (the gentleman who ran the in-service today).

LINK TO RUBRICS FOLDER

LINK TO RUBRICS RESOURCE