Expected Schoolwide Learning Results for Connecting Waters Charter School
CWCS will prepare its graduates to be:
1. Effective Communicators who:
-Read critically and extensively for a variety of purposes.
-Write using acceptable English.
-Speak clearly and listen actively.
-Contribute to society and work cooperatively with others.-Gather, analyze, and apply information to real life situations.-Demonstrate basic life skills (i.e. seeking employment or college admission).
3. Technologically Skilled Individuals who:
-Demonstrate competence in the use of a computer.
-Demonstrate competence with basic software programs and other appropriate technological equipment.
4. Historically-Aware Learners who:
-Have an understanding of the history and cultures of mankind.
-Know and articulate the democratic principles of our society.
5. Mathematical Thinkers who:
-Apply mathematical principles and operations to solve problems.
6. Scientific Thinkers who:
-Apply scientific knowledge and thought processes to explain the world and solve problems.
7. Lifelong Learners who:
-Realize their unique educational interests, talents, or abilities
-Have experience or knowledge in a variety of the arts, trades, professions, languages, and other disciplines.
The seven (7) growth area goals of CWCS are:
Student reads and writes
effectively.
ESLR identified: #1
-Student reads actively and derives meaning from written media.
-Student reads extensively for a variety of purposes.
-Student writes using grammatically acceptable English.
-Student adjusts tone and style of writing for purpose and audience.
-Student supports statements using well-rounded facts, theory, and opinion
-Student separates fact from opinion.
-Student logically reaches conclusions based on sufficient evidence.
-Student clearly and succinctly states key points.
-Student organizes ideas in a variety of ways.
-Student demonstrates creativity through style, organization, and development
of content.
Student sufficiently understands and functions in the world around him.
ESLR identified: #2 , #3
-Student demonstrates involvement in his/her community.
-Student has knowledge of the reciprocal relationship between the individual
and his/her environment.
-Student demonstrates various skills in seeking employment and/or college
admission.
-Student understands and demonstrates his/her role as an employee, consumer,
and financial manager.
-Student identifies and documents the effects of technology on his/her environment.
-Student participates in physical activities that develop strength, endurance,
and personal fitness.
Student appreciates the history of mankind in all its diversity.
ESLR identified: #
4
-Student shows his/her appreciation for history by identifying relationships
between past and present events or situations involving cause and effect:
people, events, or situations influencing an action or result.
-Student shows his/her appreciation for history by identifying relationships
between past and present events or situations involving comparison: similarities
and differences.
-Student shows his/her appreciation for history by identifying relationships
between past and present events or situations involving classification: events
and situations explained as political, economic, social, and/or intellectual.
-Student shows his/her appreciation for history by identifying relationships
between past and present events or situations involving anticipation of the
future using evidence from the past and the present to draw conclusion about
the future.
-Student shows his/her appreciation for history by identifying relationships
between past and present events or situations involving understanding of
the extent of time.
-Student applies physical and cultural geography to his/her understanding
of societies.
Student comprehends the political process.
ESLR identified: #4
-Student understands the structures, operations, and relationships of the
governments in the United States.
Student applies mathematical principles and operations to solve problems.
ESLR identified: #5
-Student demonstrates knowledge of basic skills, conceptual understanding,
and problem solving with numbers and operations.
-Student demonstrates knowledge of basic skills, conceptual understanding,
and problem solving in geometry and measurement.
-Student demonstrates knowledge of basic skills, conceptual understanding,
and problem solving in functions and algebra.
-Student demonstrates knowledge of basic skills, conceptual understanding,
and problem solving in statistics and probability.
-Student solves problems that make significant demands in one or more of
these aspects of the solution process: problem formulation, problem implementation,
and problem conclusion.
-Student communicates his/her knowledge of basic skills, understanding of
concepts, and his/her ability to solve problems and understand mathematical
communication of others.
Student applies scientific concepts and skills to explain his world and find
solutions to its problems.
ESLR identified: #6
-Student observes, compares, orders, and categorizes characteristics and
behaviors.
-Student communicates ideas.
-Student relates factors of differing objects and events, and infers about
unknown or unseen processes.
-Student applies knowledge and thought processes to explain his/her world
and solve problems.
-Student shows a perception of the interrelationships among the scientific
themes (energy, interactions, patterns, and change) and their application
to the four spheres (lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, ecosphere).
- Student recognizes the effects of the sciences, technologies, and societies
on one another and on the environment.
Student realizes his own unique educational interests,
talents, and abilities.
ESLR identified: #7