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Self reflection
The ability to self reflect
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In one word: Resilience. The ability to make it through tough times.
Spirituality: The search for meaning in life; the human experience. Why are we here? What lies beyond the visible. How does our faith in a Greater Purpose for our existence strengthen our ability to withstand tough times?
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Agile. Willing. Thinker.
A Crescent grad needs to be Agile - poised to embrace change
Willing - in attitude and outcome to learn, grow and contribute
A Thinker - to not only identify the problem but be part of the team that comes up with the solutions
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Problem solving
Problem solving in all aspects of professional and everyday life
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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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Discipline
Discipline is a critical factor in success. It is the attribute necessary to achieve excellence in any pursuit, art, music, academics or athletics. The ability to focus on what is needed rather than what is wanted is the critical ingredient to identifying and achieving goals. Without discipline, even raw talent is not as helpful. Theodore Roosevelt said "With great self-discipline, anything is possible."
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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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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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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.'
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Radically honest and incredibly ambitious.
Too much negativity that stifles progress is rooted in complacency and dishonesty. Full transparency always has it's risks, but a global citizen, a true man, inherits those risks in the pursuit of a better world. Speak the truth, seek the truth, but most importantly walk the walk. If that becomes a cornerstone of the Crescent community, any ambitions students have will change the world for the better.
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Listening Skills
Our Grad mustn't just come to the table with an agenda to present his own ideas and have his own beliefs confirmed by others, but he must be willing to alter his perspective and step out of his comfort zone, if needed. Only then will true discovery and change occur.
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90 Portraits for 90 Grads
If there are 90 Grads of 2030 then Crescent needs to have 90 Portraits available to serve their individual needs. Some may need scholastic support, some may need a boost in character. You are not a factory starting with a sample and turning it into a product. You are given a boy with his own certain set of circumstances. And you are tasked with sending him out into the 2030 world as a productive, happy member of society. Be what your Grads need. Don't make the Grads be what you need.
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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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Never give up
Whenever a student is struggling in a course there should be a better system to help the student do better. A lot of students aren't mature enough to recognize that hard work at anything will produce positive results. So it may be up to the teacher to help a student recognize that. If a student is struggling in a course the teacher should take the first step in setting up private help sessions and what not. I know it should be the students responsibility to take of their own education but many don't have role models that teach them what…
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Commitment to Cause
Discover your passion, pursue it and dedicated yourself to leaving it better than you found it.
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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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