School Wide Learning Objectives (SLOs)

Hillsdale's Graduate Profile is a way for students to practice and demonstrate their knowledge of these important skills.

As a Hillsdale High School graduate, you will:

Communicate effectively:

• Write logically structured documents that demonstrate an appropriate sense of audience, purpose, and context.
• Speak with poise, clear organization, a command of language, and an appropriate sense of audience, purpose, and context.
• Listen actively, acknowledging and understanding different viewpoints, and providing and accepting feedback.

Read for Understanding

Think:

• Critically:
  • Ask critical questions
  • Generate hypotheses
  • View problems from multiple perspectives
  • Analyze, evaluate, and synthesize information
  • Pursue answers and solutions through research, experimentation and/or computation.
• Creatively: Generate unique answers and interpretations.
• Metacognitively: Reflect upon and assess your work.

Respect:

• Yourself:
  • Make informed and appropriate personal and academic decisions
  • Be prepared, participate and persevere
  • Reflect and self-evaluate
• Your community:
  • Demonstrate integrity and empathy
  • Collaborate in large and small groups
  • Understand, appreciate and respect diversity
• Your world:
  • Participate in civil discourse and the democratic process
  • Make authentic connections between what you have learned and the wider world

Understand and apply:

• Content
• Content skills