Foundational & Advanced Competencies

• Research & Inquiry: I can gather information from multiple sources across a variety of media formats and cite information accurately using relevant strategies, correct formatting and relevant conventions. 
• Presentation & Feedback: I can present and defend work in various contexts. I can give and receive, incorporate, think critically about, and respond to outside feedback and ideas. 
• Written Expression: I can write for varied purposes to  produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. 
• Read & Interpret: I can read for various purposes while determining the central ideas, themes, and tone of a text, through analyzing, synthesizing, and using text evidence to support critical thinking skills.
• Artistic Expression: I can express complex thoughts and ideas through various artistic forms including poetry, painting, drawing, singing, music, and more.
• Multilingual Expression: I can proficiently express ideas in more than one language (speaking, listening, reading, writing) and adjust communication strategies based on cultural and situational context.

• Career Planning: I can identify career opportunities and pathways through my personal, professional, and school networks and communities to support career awareness, exploration, and preparation. 
• Informed & Ethical Decision Making: I can gather information from a variety of sources. I can make decisions that make a positive impact on my community, my crew, the environment, and myself. I can align with best practices. 
• Professional Habits & Skills: I can engage safely and professionally in a variety of maritime settings by exhibiting the standards and practices of a maritime professional.

• Diverse Perspectives: I can learn from diverse experiences, ideas and perspec­tives on issues and topics to be able to explain and  address social and political problems. 
• People, Places & Environment: I can hypothesize, investigate, and assess the dynamic relationships between ecological systems,  humans systems and ways of life. 
• Institutions & Systems: I  can thoroughly analyze and evaluate institutions and systems in sociohistorical context. Clearly explains their influence on rights, responsibilities, and society.
• Human Behavior: I can examine, identify, and communicate how human behavior effects/affects political, social, cultural, and psychological dynamics.

• Reason Logically: I can construct and critique logical arguments by applying deductive reasoning, using assumptions, definitions, and established results to justify conclusions, make informed financial decisions, and evaluate the validity of mathematical claims.
• Model & Problem Solve: I can apply appropriate models and tools, such as diagrams, graphs, tables, and formulas to analyze, evaluate, and effectively communicate complex problems and solutions. 
• Compute Fluently: I can select and apply appropriate mathematical or financial procedures and concepts with accuracy and flexibility, justify my methods, and explain how operations and representations connect to the problem contexts. 
• Analyze Data: I can design and interpret mathematical or financial models to examine patterns, evaluate relationships, and make reasoned inferences and predictions based on data.

• Productive Mindset: I can utilize tools to regulate emotions, create and sustain healthy relationships, and consistently make positive choices that align with my goals. 
• Reflective Learner: I can embody the principles and practices of mindfulness and wellness as I engage with and create community. 
• Community Engagement: I can balance the demands of my course load and commitments to my communities inside and outside of MHS. 
• Personal Health: I can maintain a healthy mind and body by making informed decisions about  well-being and adopting healthy behaviors.

• Design & Conduct Empirical Research: I can develop relevant scientific questions, hypotheses, and experimental procedures. I can interpret qualitative and quantitative data and observations to evaluate hypotheses and develop informed conclusions.
• Apply Disciplinary Science Knowledge: I can use essential concepts, theories, relationships, and experimental processes of a particular field of science to analyze real world scenarios.

• Assess Needs: I can identify clear criteria and constraints for a specific problem by understanding real world needs, challenges, and the people affected by them.  
• Prototype Solutions: I can brainstorm and test multiple solutions to a problem and develop a prototype based on the criteria and constraints. 
• Critique & Revise: I can evaluate a completed product by testing and comparing with other solutions and make revisions based on feedback and design performance.

I demonstrate expertise in planning, collaborating, interpersonal communication, and problem solving using various tools or techniques, and actively share this knowledge with peers/community.

I have implemented deliberate processes of communication strategies with a diverse set of stakeholders to create opportunities for self-expression and learning for myself and the community.

I can pose testable questions, gather data using appropriate laboratory techniques, analyze, model, and represent data to draw well supported conclusions.

I have coordinated with multiple institutions/entities both internal to and external of Maritime High school, and across a rich profusion of cultures, to conduct a project, product or program.

I apply the appropriate principles of design thinking to generate innovative solutions by:

• Assessing needs to define the problem to be addressed
• Creating a prototype to develop possible solutions,
• Critiquing possible solutions and revising based on feedback

I exercise initiative to maintain my own physical, emotional, and educational well-being as an individual and as a community member.

I can apply mathematical reasoning to solve real-world problems including financial scenarios by using appropriate models (diagrams, graphs, tables, formulas, etc) and pre-stated definitions to analyze and solve complex problems, and effectively communicate my conclusions.