Below are the Mastery Learning Targets, or priorities for all students to be successful. Mastery (M) of these skills means the student has met the grade-level standard and is independently performing on grade level. Mastery takes time to develop and may take the full school year.

Family / Consumer Science

• Uses the decision making process to solve a problem.

• Identifies tools and equipment used in food production and their proper usage. 

• Demonstrates effective team work and evaluates the importance when goal setting in the workplace. 

• Expresses the importance of getting and maintaining a job and pursuance of a career. 

• Analyzes jobs associated with specific career pathways and/or professions. 

AI Foundations:

• Creates interactive charts and graphs using digital tools to show real-world data and help others see patterns, trends, and relationships.

• Analyzes how computers and technology affect personal lives, society, and culture—including both positive and negative impacts.

• Examine digital tools to find what they do well and what problems they cause, and suggest ways to make them safer and more helpful.

• Explains how artificial intelligence is used in apps, websites, and smart devices to make them work more effectively.

• Breaks big problems into smaller parts by organizing code into reusable pieces like procedures or modules.

• Improves digital creations by making them easier to use and more accessible to everyone.

• Recommends ways to protect information online based on how well they work, how practical they are, and whether they are fair.

• Recommend ways to protect information online based on how well they work, how practical they are, and whether they are fair.

Print and Online Newspaper

• Writes an editorial that clearly states a claim, responds to the other side, and uses strong facts and reasons to support the argument.

• Explains a topic in writing by grouping related ideas and using specific facts, definitions, and examples to make the information clear.

• Works with classmates to create and share a digital project and give proper credit to all sources.

• Research a question using several sources, combine what you learn, and develop new questions to explore.

• Uses punctuation like dashes and ellipses correctly and check spelling to make writing clear.

• Chooses verb forms to change how ideas are presented and how strongly or clearly they are communicated.

• Gives credit to other people’s work by citing sources when using their words, images, or ideas in your projects.

• Examines information found online to decide if it is trustworthy, accurate, and fair before using it.

• Creates original projects using digital tools to show ideas or solve problems.

• Works with a team using digital tools, takes on a role, and helps complete a shared project.

Intro to Broadcast Journalism

• Explains a topic clearly in writing a script by organizing information into logical groups and supporting it with specific facts and examples. 

• Explores a question by finding information from different sources, and use that learning to think of new questions to investigate.

• Chooses between active and passive voice and uses verbs in the conditional and subjunctive mood to purposefully alter the emphasis, tone, or meaning of their writing.

• Learns to look closely at information found online to decide if it's trustworthy, accurate, and fair. 

• Creates new and original things using technology like a computer or tablet. 

• Works as part of a team, where everyone has a specific job, to use technology and complete a project together. 

Advanced PE 7 / 8

• Participates in games, fitness activities, dance, and outdoor movement using correct form and control.

• Uses strategies, movement concepts, and fitness principles to improve performance and health.

• Works cooperatively, show respect, communicate effectively, and solve problems during physical activity.

• Sets goals, reflect on movement experiences, manage emotions, and choose activities that support lifelong physical activity.

Library Media

• Formulates questions to guide personal research.

• Creates multimedia projects for a specific audience.

• Collaborates with others to gain new understanding.

• Presents completed products to an authentic audience beyond the classroom. 

• Brainstorms, hypothesizes, and tests multiple, unique solutions to a problem within a group.            

Art

• Student successfully uses planning tools to develop original art concepts

• Students are able to make a plan to create art and see the project through. 

• Student is able to finish artwork

• Student is able to present their work for presentation. 

• Student makes sure their art sends a clear message to the person looking at it

• Students are able to observe the details and break down the artist's choices

• Students are able to use our project checklist to see how well the art follows the goal

• Students are able to take personal experiences and artistic knowledge and put them together to make art. 

• Students are able to share the 'who, where, and when' behind the art to tell what it’s really about.

Band

• Practices instrument each week for quarterly required hours.

• Performs concert music with technical and expressive accuracy.

• Demonstrates rehearsal and concert etiquette.

• Creates a program of contrasting music for the final concert.

• Reads and identifies the essential elements of music literacy.

• Sight-reads new music at a proficient level.

Strings

• Creates an orchestral arrangement or original composition.

• Reads and identifies the essential elements of music literacy through Sight-reading. 

• Performs selected music with technical and expressive accuracy on MusicFirst classroom.

• Practices instrument three days a week using appropriate methods for improvement. 

• Performs concerts demonstrating appropriate musical skills.

• Demonstrates rehearsal and concert etiquette.

Choir 7 / 8

• Sings melodic and harmonic parts in choir music with accurate pitch, good tone, and expression to communicate musical meaning.

• Sight-reads short musical examples using accurate pitches and rhythms in treble or bass clef.

• Performs contrasting choir pieces and explains how expressive qualities and musical elements communicate style and intent.

• Uses personal reflection and rehearsal feedback to improve performance and determine when music is ready to perform.

• Performs choir music with accuracy, expression, correct pronunciation, and cultural authenticity to communicate the composer’s intent.

• Explains personal interpretation of choir music and describes how expressive qualities and musical elements create meaning.

• Demonstrates appropriate rehearsal etiquette, performance behavior, confidence, and professionalism for the venue and purpose.

Theater Arts

• Identifies how performers create characters using the tools of an actor. 

• Works with others to create/perform works of theatre.

• Develops physical and vocal traits for characters.

• Describes how an actor's choices affect the story.

• Uses practice to improve skills. 

• Uses technical and design aspects to help tell a story.

• Describes and evaluates works of theatre.

• Investigates the time and place of a theatrical work.