The Compass Learning Outcomes strengthens students’ foundational skills and enhances their abilities to:
Think Critically
Students will learn to use reasoning and evidence to reach sensible judgments about methods, assumptions, and results.
Communicate Effectively
Students will share ideas through appropriate oral and written forms of expression in ways that demonstrate awareness of audience, purpose, and context.
Cultivate Artistic Awareness
Students will study the fine and performing arts, thereby gaining important perspectives from which they can better understand themselves, their circumstances, and the worlds they inhabit.
Collaborate and Build Community
Students will learn how collaboration and interdisciplinary innovations can help them build and maintain productive communities.
Understand Social and Natural Worlds
Students will participate in careful observation, experimentation, reasoning, and analysis.
Grow as a responsible and productive citizen
Students will develop a greater awareness of the differences between diverse cultures and their significance for working toward creating a more equitable world.