bLUeprint | DISCOVER | EXPLORE | CONNECT | APPLY |
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Creative Curiosity | Identify opportunities to learn something new or explore a concept more deeply | Engage in activities that foster imagination, innovation, and creativity | Articulate their learning about a concept more deeply and/or the ways in which their views were challenged while engaging with others; Building skills in divergent thinking and problem-solving that allow for the exploration of multiple potential solutions | Develop the ability to generate and test new ideas, and to think creatively to solve problems with others |
Self Concept | Identify the factors that shape identities, including cultural, social, and personal experiences and values | Develop a sense of self-worth and belonging, and the ability to express one's identities authentically | Build skills in self-reflection and self-expression, and develop the ability to communicate one's thoughts, feelings, needs, and beliefs to others. | Develop agency and the ability to make informed decisions based on one's own values |
Healthy Connections | Reflect on and recognize what helpful and harmful connections look like | Identify personal needs and establish boundaries | Practice skills and build efficacy in effective communication, active listening, compromise, and boundary setting | Navigate relationships with transparency, demonstrating empathy for self and others |
Critical Consciousness | Reflect to understand inequities in social, political and economic systems | Acknowledge question, and challenge inequities that exist in societal structures | Build skills through open dialogue to understand divers perspectives and lived experiences | Collaborate with communities to critically examine and transform systems that contribute to inequities |
Strategic Adaptability | Acknowledge the opportunities in adjusting to new situations, environments, challenges, and failures | Identify and evaluate personal behaviors and responses to failure, ambiguity and change while recognizing the interconnectedness of complex systems | Build skills in problem-solving, decision-making, and communicating to cope with change, uncertainty, and stress | Demonstrate the ability to navigate unpredictable environments, learn from failure, to assess risk and take action |