Petaluma High School Expected School-wide Learning Results: ESLRs

"WE have HEART"

At the end of four years our Petaluma High School students will be:

World citizens who:

• Foster tolerance and appreciation of diversity through awareness and open-minded acceptance
• Develop and demonstrate knowledge and understanding of diverse cultures and the global environment
• Understand history, government, economy, and legal systems
• Participate in community, social, civic, cultural, and philanthropic service

Effective users of technology who:

• Are technologically literate
• Use technology to analyze, research, solve, and complete tasks
• Practice ethical and legal responsibility

Healthy self-aware individuals who:

• Balance and value mental, physical, and spiritual well-being
• Demonstrate good hygiene
• Recognize the value of proper nutrition and practice physical fitness
• Are adaptable and confident
• Establish, understand, and adhere to standards of behavior

Exemplary lifelong self-directed learners who:

• Are responsible for their own learning and self-management
• Make informed choices
• Demonstrate curiosity and common sense
• Demonstrate basic academic skills

Accomplished communicators who:

• Organize thoughts and emotions, and express them in oral and written form
• Listen, comprehend, and process information
• Understand and follow directions
• Listen to and show respect for other's thoughts and differences of opinion
• Are capable collaborators

Responsible respectful citizens who:

• Have a strong work ethic
• Are positive and productive role models
• Are community participants
• Exhibit honesty, integrity, and accountability
• Demonstrate initiative
• Make responsible choices and understand the consequences of their actions

Thinkers and problem-solvers who:

• Analyze problems and define appropriate resources
• Frame clear, concise analytical questions and arguments
• Recognize and analyze different points of view
• Gather and organize information and analyze it for accuracy, relevancy, and bias
• Analyze information and use logic in the decision-making process
• Transfer knowledge to new situations
• Analyze, reason, problem solve, and synthesize