Experience faith as the foundation of personal identity, the source of calling to a life of service, and the impetus to life in community

1. Know the large sweep of redemption history.
   
2. Develop ability to read the Bible within the context of that large sweep.
   
3. Examine their identities in relation to redemption history.
   
4. Experience and reflect on a sense of calling.
   
5. Contribute to life in community.
   

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Cultivate attitudes, habits, and skills that will allow them to flourish as individuals, as community members, and as Christ's servants in the wider world.

1. Experience individual and community devotional life.
   
2. Develop relationship-building skills.
   
3. Identify and shape emotions.
   
4. Learn to lead and to collaborate.
   
5. Respond to suffering and need with concern and care.
   
6. Respond to cultural differences with humility and understanding.
   
7. Develop fitness.
   
8. Connect learning to life.
   
9. Practice discernment.
   
10. Solve problems.
    
11. Reason critically.
    
12. Display creativity.
    
13. Reflect on their own learning.
    
14. Communicate effectively.
    
15. Demonstrate persistence.
    
16. Value accuracy and precision.
    
17. Manage time effectively.
    

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Develop the knowledge and attitudes needed to assume their role as developers and stewards of the earth.

1. Respond to the intricacy of creation with awe.
   
2. View science and technology as human and culturally conditioned activity rooted in faith.
   
3. Develop fluency in the tools, techniques, and language used in the physical and biological sciences.
   
4. Evaluate the contributions of science and technology.
   
5. Understand significant scientific concepts.
   
6. Commit to living within our environmental and ecological means.
   

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Develop the knowledge and attitudes needed to be agents of peace and justice in society and culture.

1. View society and culture as human response rooted in faith.
   
2. Use knowledge and abilities related to history, geography, sociology, economics, political studies, business, and law to understand and evaluate social and cultural issues.
   
3. Recognize how cultures shape individual lives, particularly their own
   
4. Shape personal cultural expressions wisely
   
5. Experience cultural diversity
   
6. Learn the language and cultural characteristics of a second culture
   
7. Discover and respond to injustice and poverty locally, nationally, and throughout the world
   
8. Explore local, national and world citizenship
   
9. Commit to active political and cultural lives
   

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Develop the interests and abilities needed to read, view, and communicate effectively.

1. Become life-long readers in a variety of genres.
   
2. Develop the tools and vocabulary to read literature critically.
   
3. Develop the tools and vocabulary to read and view mass media critically.
   
4. Write clearly and expressively in a variety of genres.
   
5. Speak with clarity, expression, and appropriateness.
   
6. Develop skills, including technology skills, that support clear and expressive communication.
   

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Develop the interests, knowledge, and abilities to enjoy mathematical thinking and use it to serve everyday and specialized purposes.

1. View mathematics as a human response to an aspect of an orderly creation.
   
2. Develop fluency in the tools, techniques, and language used in mathematical discourse.
   
3. Learn to reason mathematically.
   
4. Develop problem-solving skills.
   
5. Use mathematical applications to serve everyday and specialized purposes.
6. Become confident of their mathematical abilities.
   

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Develop the interests, knowledge, and abilities to become engaged viewers, listeners, and participants in music, dance, theatre, and the fine arts.

1. Develop fluency in perceptual tools and vocabula ry that support engaged participation in the arts
   
2. View cultural products as expressions of human faith
   
3. Experience music, dance, theatre, and fine arts events and presentations that are available in the Minneapolis area.
   
4. Create personal works of art and participate in music, dance, or theatre presentations.
   

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For More Information Contact

Jack Shields, high school principal Phone: 763-531-1732