EBALOs

In alignment with the SLZUSD Graduate Profile, East Bay Arts graduates will be:

College and Career Ready by displaying:

• The ability to utilize accrued academic and interpersonal knowledge and skills to critically examine and explore post-graduate opportunities.
• Personal organization, problem solving skills, self-confidence, and a sense of purpose.
• An understanding and appreciation of the value of interdependence within diverse communities.
• The ability to navigate new situations with humility, vulnerability, and a desire to learn.
• Proficiency in academic high school standards, understanding their application to post-high school college or career plans.
• Courage and confidence to engage in productive struggle internally and with others.

Socially and Civically Engaged by displaying:

• Humility, vulnerability, curiosity, resourcefulness, with the will and skill set to act as change agents for social justice. 
• An understanding of self, positionality, strengths, and knowledge of how to navigate and challenge political structures and systems.
• An investment in personal and collective liberation, taking into account potentially divergent values.
• A sense of advocacy for and responsibility to one’s community. 

Effective Communicators by displaying:

• Curiosity to engage with others of diverse backgrounds, seeking to grow and learn, while navigating, expressing, and responding to emotions and interpersonal conflict.
• The effective implementation of feedback as a reflective and intellectual process, balancing emotions and facts.
• The ability to convey information honestly in myriad ways and determine the appropriate medium for the intended audience.
• The knowledge that communication is a collaborative activity in which not just words, but dynamics that are non-verbal, energetic, and environmental, as well.
• Presence and the will to listen/learn attentively while asking specific, critical, open-ended questions in order to enrich a conversation and connections.
• The ability to critically analyze and synthesize information.

Creative and Innovative by displaying:

• A sense of personal artistry, incorporating beliefs and experiences into academic and creative projects, embodying the “Studio Habits of Mind”.
• An understanding and appreciation that creativity has different meanings for everyone and manifests in innumerable ways.
• The courage to question and explore existing systems and then dare, iterate, and act as a revolutionary, in community and solidarity with others, to envision and create a more just world.
• The ability to understand and recognize biases when reflecting upon, analyzing, questioning, and articulating the creative process.
• The ability to accurately use vocabulary to describe and analyze academic and artistic work. 
• A growth mindset, drawing on the community wealth of multiple perspectives.

Technologically Proficient and Responsible by displaying:

• Resiliency in the face of new and unfamiliar technology.
• The will to compassionately, ethically, and intentionally use technology to uplift others and just causes.
• Critical media literacy skills to determine the credibility of information and combat misinformation.
• The ability to be conscious/intentional consumers and creators of technology.
• Computer literacy skills that are transferable to college/careers.