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Profile of a Learner
Naperville Community Unit School District 203's Profile of a Learner strives to develop students who embody:
Learner's Mindset
- Embrace curiosity to experience new ideas, while developing positive attitudes and beliefs about learning.
- Possess the desire to learn, unlearn and relearn.
- Find and maximize opportunities to actively listen and elicit diverse perspectives from others.
- Adopt a dynamic mindset, embracing flexibility and taking ownership, with intrinsic motivation and an eagerness to evolve.
Adaptability
- Work effectively in a climate of ambiguity and changing priorities, roles, and situations.
- Demonstrate agility and resilience in thoughts and actions.
- Respond productively to feedback, praise, setbacks, and criticism.
- Understand, negotiate, and balance diverse views and beliefs to reach workable solutions.
Communication
- Articulate thoughts and ideas effectively using oral, written and nonverbal communication skills in a variety of forms and contests.
- Listen effectively to decipher meaning, including knowledge, values, attitudes, and intentions.
- Use communication for a range of purposes and audiences including to inform, instruct, motivate, and persuade.
- Seek, contribute, and respond to feedback to achieve collective outcomes.
Critical Thinking
- Understand the bigger picture and propose solutions that consider the effects on the whole system.
- Consistently improve the quality of one's own thinking by skillfully analyzing, assessing, and reconstructing.
- Apply disciplined thinking that is clear, rational, open-minded, and informed by evidence.
- Access, evaluate, and integrate information effectively, using appropriate tools and resources wisely, ethically, and efficiently.
Global Citizen
- Demonstrate awareness, sensitivity, concern, and respect to connect with others' feelings, opinions, experiences, and culture.
- Value and embrace diverse cultures and unique perspectives through mutual respect and open dialogue.
- Demonstrate personal, civic, social, local, and global responsibility through ethical and empathetic behaviors.
- Elicit diverse perspectives and contributions.
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Students in the PI+ Program
39
Languages Spoken by Meadow Glens families
1989
year established
66%
of staff with a master's or higher education
476
K-5th Grade Students