1) Cross-Cultural Understanding and Competence

• demonstrates an awareness of personal biases and actively works to overcome a biased perspective
• demonstrates an understanding of cultural and sub-cultural influence on personal decisions and choices
• demonstrates a cognitive understanding of culture to mean broad categories (i.e., gender, race, age, etc.)
• attains comfort with, readily develops and maintains cross-cultural relationships
• listens actively and reflects inside cross-cultural relationships
• demonstrates an understanding that power/non-power dynamics play an important role in cross-cultural relationships
• asks clarifying questions with goal of being sensitive to culture and cultural differences

2) Conflict Resolution/Violence Prevention/Violence Reduction

• demonstrates an understanding of and uses conflict resolution skills,
• understands that conflicts are inevitable and indicate opportunity
• demonstrates the ability to resolve naturally occurring conflicts without violence
• advocates for other people's perspectives
• demonstrates ability to share power and create win/win's in relationships
• aware of and responsible for all of his/her relationships and their quality
• share and communicate resolutions and the processes by which they're achieved

3) Leadership

• establishes set of values/beliefs and demonstrates independent set of actions that support those values/beliefs
• models inclusiveness
• takes responsibility for personal and group follow-through on plans
• demonstrates an initiative for creating change
• manages time well
• plans activities with vision, mission and goals in mind and a clear strategy for achieving them
• demonstrates "with-it-ness" - aware of all activity and all needs
• develops a personal mission statement
• honors commitments
• evaluates his/her self, the process and performance regularly for fulfilling the vision, mission and goals established

4) Community Action

• ability to identify his/her communities of concern
• spends time working on community change projects
• demonstrates the ability to conduct community needs assessment
• initiates, plans, organizes, evaluates and completes positive community change project
• engages others in project ownership and action
• develops positive sense - competence and confidence - of potential to create positive community change
• stays informed about community issues

5) Sense of the Future

• envisions one's self and others in the future, growing up and growing old
• makes choices now based on future outcomes
• conducts short- and long-term planning for the future
• applies for and enrolls in post-secondary education
• develops an awareness of and avoids high-risk behavior
• communicates to others about the future

6) Performing Arts

• demonstrates expansive use of voice and body to communicate
• develops positive sense - competence and confidence - of creative potential
• demonstrates improvement in skill in acting, dance, voice, singing, movement, improvisation
• sees the value of practice, discipline and focus
• demonstrates the ability to work in ensemble and to collaborate successfully
• create, writes, rehearses, performs, evaluate and improves his/her own performance
• develops personal standards of excellence
• communicates "difficult" messages in public
• takes risks in creative activity