ANTIRACISM COMPETENCIES
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LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES
CORE COMPETENCIES
INITIATIVE AGILITY
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INITIATIVE
Taking initiative means that students direct their own learning and guide their own experiences. They actively and intentionally choose a particular task, activity, or path and are able to move beyond essentialism. Curiosity fuels their initial goals. They take time to re ect Their re ections as well as their awareness of their positionality inform their approach their strategies and their adjustments along the way.
AGILITY
Students demonstrate their agility through their capacity to sit with dissonance and embrace ambiguity. They can engage in creative and exible problem-strategi ing both independently and collaboratively
PURPOSE
Driven by a commitment to effect change in an equitable and just way, students value, seek, and understand multiple and competing perspectives. Through their capacity for empathy and collaboration, they actively and intentionally engage in diverse spaces.
CURIOSITY
I seek out and explore new and original questions about the world. I actively seek answers to these questions.
PURPOSEFUL REFLECTION
I regularly re ect on what I gained from a learning experience what I contributed and what could have made it better I am conscious of my lack of knowledge, personal concerns, and socially constructed beliefs.
EMBRACING AMBIGUITY
I am excited by new, different, and challenging situations because I know I have the potential to learn something new.
PROBLEM STRATEGIZING
When I try to fnd a solution to a problem or meet a challenge I can identify multiple facets of the problem examine it through various lenses ethical cultural social political racial economic etc and I can prioriti e key aspects on which to focus
EMPATHY
I have developed connections and relationships with people who have different experiences and perspectives. I am open to learning more about their ideas and suggestions for strategies. I understand that the problem I understand that the problem I care about is connected to larger issues and many interrelated parts I recogni e that contradictory beliefs ideas and actions can all be valid.
COLLABORATION
When working on a shared task, I take responsibility to create group norms and systems that ensure everyone feels comfortable. I take responsibility for the functioning of the group by setting expectations and practicing strategies for helping everyone feel valued and comfortable — and for navigating disagreements or discomfort that inevitably arises.
VALUING MULTIPLE NARRATIVES: Valuing multiplicity of life stories, perspectives, and experiences, even when those narratives compete.
MOVING BEYOND ESSENTIALISM: Moving beyond thinking that is rooted in a pervasive cognitive bias that posits that people can be categori ed into groups based on perceived shared intrinsic qualities This thinking presumes that people can be categori ed into intrinsic and enduringly different groups
SITTING WITH DISSONANCE: aluing discomfort and ambiguity including re: oneself - not applying essentialism to one s self-concept
UNDERSTANDING POSITIONALITY: Understanding and owning that an individual s location with a community i e their rank and status is impacted by social and organi ational frameworks
COMMITTING TO REWIRE: Habituating knowledge into new practice, or changing habits to align with learning.