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8 votes
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Being able to dynamically build and work with diverse teams.
Amount of data and information is growing in multiples everyday and informations silos are global. The boys need the skills to reachout and connect to people with diverse ethnic, social, educational backgrounds to build and work with teams. Being able to relate to "different people" without prejudice, and understanding the value of different cultures and way of thinking is crucial. Canada's defacto "canadian experience" bias would be the biggest obstacle the boys need to overcome in order create a well connected and happy society they would crave for.
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Always do the right thing. Always do your best.
Always do the right thing. Always do your best. Education should foster this, as well as a sense of curiosity and a mindset that we are students for life.
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Being well-rounded
In education especially, but all facets of life. Students need to be learning about a wide variety of fields (history, business, the arts, etc.) to gain perspective and broaden their knowledge and horizons.
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6 votes
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Spiritual Health
Whether it's through meditation, prayer, or exercise, students/staff seek to find meaning for their lives: developing a connection between mind/body/spirit in themselves, the community, and the world.
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Self Aware
Students should be very aware of thier own strengths and weakness' so they are realistic on what roles they would be successful in.
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Personal Growth
Our boys must have the mindset that they need to try to be better tomorrow than they were today. They cannot rest on their laurels. Celebration is good but improvement is the pinnacle. Less flattering back patting and more reflection on today and how tomorrow will be even better. It is important in their relationships, their academics, their co-curriculars and ultimately in their careers and lives. They must never believe that they have given all that they can give to our school, our community, and most importantly to themselves.
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Focus on developing an authentic male identity
Many of the knowledge, skills & character strengths being identified here are excellent goals – but they are attributes that could be taught (and learned) in many places. Crescent should not miss the opportunity to do the one thing other institutions cannot: developing leaders with strong, secure male identities. We should instill an authentic, healthy sense of what it has always meant to be a man, alongside a respect for others in a diverse society. Do not allow the future man to be lost in this increasingly androgynous world.
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Learning How To Learn
Fact: every programming language taught today in Computer Science class will be obsolete by 2030. The language itself isn't the point. What is relevant is teaching the skills, mindset and importance of proactively, continually and independently learning difficult new things every day for the rest of their lives, and to do it faster, better and with more passion than their peers. Our graduates need to truly excel at "learning how to learn."
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A Healthy Relationship with Technology
Graduates need the knowledge and habits to be able to use technology in a positive way that genuinely and measurably improves their lives and those around them. Conversely, we need to ensure they do not develop an unhealthy relationship with technology, where its use negatively impacts their well-being and productivity by being a distraction, or worse, an addiction.
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Live Consciously
Have the capacity to be in the moment, making conscious choices reflecting your values & code of ethics which supports compassion for yourself and others.
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Empathy
the ability to understand and share the feelings and emotions of another, to be able to view it from that other person's perspective
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2 votes
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Community strength
The graduate should feel a sense of belonging to the community. As the community can influence them, they should also recognize that their individual actions, whether good or bad, will influence the community as well. This ability for an individual to take action knowing, understanding and caring that it will effect many others will provide future success in all relationships; family, community and business.
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Deliver Results: On Time, Under Budget, Past Failures, Without Excuses
These are the same traits that top organizations are looking for, and our graduates should be able to consistently demonstrate them. By the time a student graduates, they should already be adept at performing at a high-level under real-world demands and expectations. We should not be shielding or protecting our students from them, but instead simulating them, integrating them into our day-to-day pedagogy, and supporting students as they fail to meet them until they finally succeed. Upon graduation, a student should be able to demonstrate the successful completion of multiple meaningful projects that were on time, under budget, overcame failures,…
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Creative Mindset and Appreciation for the Arts
While we pay close attention to our intellectual capacity, and our physical well-being, our graduates must also enrich their creative capacity, most often activated by involvement fine arts, music and drama. http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2014/12/03/13greene.h34.html
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Patience
Crescent graduates will need to know how to be patient with themselves and with others. A graduate who learns patience will be able to give himself the time to learn, to accept and deal with setbacks and to work towards solutions.
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Make meaningful contributions
Our Crescent Grad in 2030 should be able to make meaningful contributions to his family and to his local or global community.
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Hunger to Learn
Our Grad must want to know. Knowledge is power. He mustn't take learning for granted. He must be curious about the world and the people in it and always ask 'Why.'
5 votes