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Vision of a Graduate 

ROXBURY SOCIAL STUDIES VISION OF A GRADUATE 

Critical Thinkers
To be intellectually disciplined and be able to skillfully; conceptualize, apply, analyze, synthesize, and/or evaluate information.  To be able to gather an understanding of the world through: observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication.
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Empathetic  
To be aware of, be sensitive to, and vicariously experience the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another in either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner.
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Global 
To be aware of, and understand, the wider world, its interconnections, and his/her responsibility to it. 
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Discerning Readers 

Be able to read actively, demonstrating insight and understanding, while also showing good judgment.

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Media Literate 
Be able to access, analyze, and evaluate media critically.
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Resilient
The ability to overcome challenges of all kinds, learn from them, and emerge wiser and more personally powerful. 
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Civically Literate 
To be armed with the knowledge of how to actively participate and initiate change in your community and the greater society.
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Engaged Citizens 
To be involved in local, state, national, and global communities, and work to build a culture of democracy through active participation,  
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Manage Time & Navigate Challenges 
To be able to organize  tasks and activities to maximize the effectiveness of effort, and to generate well developed thoughtful work. 
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Argue Grounded in Evidence
To be able to create sound arguments that are based in evidence. Be able to evaluate evidence to determine what evidence is appropriate to use. 
 
 
 
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Unlike a mission or vision statement, a graduate profile is a document that a school or district (or in this case a department) uses to specify the cognitive, personal, and interpersonal competencies that students should have when they graduate. 

                                                             

 - The Graduate Profile, Edutopia 

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