Claim 1: Effective Learners
Over their four years at Leaders, students present in multiple venues and with increasing complexity their strengths, growth areas, and goals to develop academic mastery.
Student Character
Summary of Evidence:
Students present their work in three main structures at Leaders: Student-Led Conferences, Presentations of Learning, and PBAT Round Tables & Passages. Within each of these structures, complexity of student work increases with students taking more ownership in the learning process and outcomes of academic mastery.
"The concrete structure your school has in place to embrace leadership and to achieve clear goals. Wow. It seems easy, but to articulate objectives and have everyone on board is a significant accomplishment. Bravo!" - Quote from a site seminar participant, April 2016
Student-Led Conferences
Instead of traditional parent-teacher conferences, Leaders has SLCs. Twice a year, students present their strengths, growth areas, and goals to an audience of their families, teachers, and peers. SLCs allow students to take the lead in their own learning as they reflect on their progress towards Mastery Passages and graduation. In each grade complexity of students' reflections of academic mastery increases as scaffolds decrease.
The SLC artifacts on the left are a representative sample from grades 9-12 chosen to highlight the progression of complexity of students' reflection of their learning.