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Expected Student Learning Results

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Teaching Truth

Know God | Biblical Thinker | Christ Follower | Image Bearer

Training Minds

Effective Communicator | Critical Thinker | Active Learner

Impacting the Kingdom

Genuine Server | Responsible Citizen | Respectful Ambassador

Teaching Truth

Know God

Identify the attributes of God’s character as revealed through the Bible, and
demonstrated through His Creation

Understand that God and His Word are truth.

Christ Follower

Discover that God’s Word is the ultimate Authority.
Reads, studies and memorizes the Bible to understand and apply the Bible to their lives
Make connections between Biblical Truth across the Curriculum
Considers the historical, chronological and cultural context of the Bible

Biblical Thinker

Discover that God’s Word is the ultimate Authority.
Reads, studies and memorizes the Bible to understand and apply the Bible to their lives
Make connections between Biblical Truth across the Curriculum
Considers the historical, chronological and cultural context of the Bible

Image Bearer

Recognizes that we are created in God’s Image, for a Purpose, with a Promise, and to
serve with love the Body of Christ and our world
Demonstrates the image of God through creativity, through academics, through
physical expressions, through emotions

Training Minds

Effective Communicator

Reading, writing, speaking, listening, performing, producing/creating, digitally

Critical Thinker

Research, analyze, interpret, compare, contrast, observe, evaluate, predict, apply, discriminate, synthesize, reflect, problem solver

Active Learner

Individually: Engaged, responsible, problem solver, initiative, listener, investigator, grit,
Collaboratively: team player, contributor, listener, self control, respectful, empathetic,
open mind,

Impacting the Kingdom

Genuine Server

Places God first, others second, yourself last
Reaching out to minister and serve others locally and globally
Generous with their time and gifts

Responsible Citizen

Good stewards of time, supplies, school campus, God’s Creation
A good follower and a good leader
Accountable for words, actions, and reactions
Act justly, love mercy while seeking peace. An ``Up stander``

Respectful Ambassador

Recognizes that everyone is fearfully and wonderfully made in the
image of God for His purpose
Works with others regardless of differences in culture, learning styles, ideas, social
status, language, appearance.

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Teaching Truth

Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”

~ John 14:6

The line starts as an upward arrow. Pointing, even as a number 1, reaching high into the space. Our first aim is teaching truth, specifically Biblical Truth. These Truths are found in God’s Word and in His World. We want to start there and so the line begins pointing upward.

The final aspect of the line, the open arrow suggests that Impacting the Kingdom is the destination. The line stretches forward, for our Impact should be beyond us. It exceeds ourselves and reaches to another.  We aim to reach outwards to the world. The arrow remains open. It gives direction, but the destination is not contained. The Lord knows his plans for his Kingdom and for us. The outward-reaching open arrow invites us to take what we’ve learned and offer it to the world.

The line, changing direction, moves downward, with a twist, like a knot, maybe even the curves of the lines in our brains. In teaching Truth, we also train minds. Like the twist, it is complex.  There is critical thinking and problem-solving. Discipline and rigor and academic pursuits and beauty happen all together within this training. It is connected and collaborative. It is a layered, overlapping process and the line loops and continues because training minds is for a purpose.