"The COMMUNICATION competency encompasses the set of abilities that students use to impart and exchange information, experiences and ideas, to explore the world around them, and to understand and effectively engage in the use of digital media."
The THINKING competency encompasses the knowledge, skills and processes we associate with intellectual development. It is through their competency as thinkers that students take subject-specific concepts and content and transform them into a new understanding. Thinking competence includes specific thinking skills as well as habits of mind, and metacognitive awareness.
PERSONAL and SOCIAL competency is the set of abilities that relate to students' identity in the world, both as individuals and as members of their community and society. Personal and social competency encompasses the abilities students need to thrive as individuals, to understand and care about themselves and others, and to find and achieve their purposes in the world.
Students develop awareness and take responsibility for their social, physical, and natural environments by working independently and collaboratively for the benefit of others.
Students acknowledge their strengths and abilities, and explicitly consider these as assets that can help them in all aspects
of their lives.