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Principal: Mrs. Scott
Assistant Principal: Mr. Yadgir
Assistant Principal: Ms. Bodanyi

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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