P-CCS Learner Profile
After years of research and collecting feedback from our community, Plymouth-Canton Community Schools is now implementing an agreed-upon list of skills and characteristics it pledges to deliver to every district student before they graduate. It’s called the Learner Profile.
The P-CCS Board of Education and administration recently adopted the P-CCS Dynamic Plan 2021-27, which is the district’s roadmap to continuous improvement. The Learner Profile embodies the skills and characteristics that our community collaboratively determined are vital for P-CCS students to build throughout their educational journey with the district.
The Learner Profile emerged from a multi-year collaboration gathering input from a diverse group of stakeholders, including students, Board of Education members, district- and building-level administrators and staff, families, and community members. This work was developed in partnership with Dell Technologies and Advanced Learning Partnerships which have nationally-recognized expertise in this area.
The P-CCS Learner Profile is a transformational work that continues our promise to be the premier school district that our students and community expect and deserve. Our students will develop into capable and involved citizens, and through this Dynamic Plan we will work passionately every day to ensure that student achievement remains high for all students at P-CCS.- Dr. Monica L. Merritt, P-CCS Superintendent of Schools
The Six Characteristics & Traits
Collaborator
I know my strengths and see strength in others.
- I can compromise.
- I can see the best in others.
- I can appreciate the strength in difference.
- I can partner with others to realize a common goal.
- I can share responsibility to make each other stronger.
- I can share speaking time and be inclusive of voices that are not being heard.
- I can put my own ideas and opinions aside to make room for someone else’s.
- I can share the effort, responsibility, and workload with members of my team.
Ethical & Global Citizen
I study, question, and contribute to the diverse community and world.
- I can make a contribution in any situation or circumstance.
- I can evaluate information for bias and accuracy.
- I can seek out perspectives that represent diverse points of view.
- I can appreciate the strength and limits of my own experience.
- I take responsibility for my actions.
- I can recognize and value the humanity of all people.
- I can respond with curiosity to what I don’t understand.
- I can share my experiences and ask questions about those of others.
- I can recognize bias, judgement and inequity and take steps to remove them from my words and actions.
Goal Directed & Resilient
I know, advocate for, and share my best self with others.
- I can be a leader of my own life.
- I can contribute to my family, school, and community.
- I can cope, learn & recover from failure and persevere when something doesn’t go my way.
- I can speak up for myself and I know when and whom to ask for help.
- I can talk to myself with encouragement and patience.
- I can identify and pursue things that bring me joy.
- I can view situations and the world with a sense of optimism.
- I can set goals to work toward.
- I can evaluate when I am on track and need to change course.
- I can take action to make our school and community more inclusive and equitable.
Critical Thinker
I reflect, synthesize, and apply learning to new situations.
- I can explain my thinking.
- I can apply reflection to new and diverse situations.
- I can make decisions based upon an analysis of information.
- I can see situations from multiple perspectives.
- I can identify bias and take action to remove it from my words and actions.
- I can approach new people and situations with curiosity.
- I can analyze and be responsive to information, situations, and relationships.
Communicator
I listen and contribute to the thinking and ideas of others.
- I can include others by asking questions to show interest.
- I can keep a conversation going by my questions and responses.
- I can listen with my body and my mind.
- I can see how my words and actions might affect people.
- I can adapt my communication to reflect my audience and the situation.
- I can influence equity using my words and actions.
- I can share my thinking through writing, speaking and other expressions.
- I can elaborate on my ideas and those of others.
- I can strengthen the communication of my ideas by sharing and getting feedback from others.
- I can be responsive to cultural norms and customs.
Innovator
I learn with curiosity, purpose, and adventure.
- I can reflect on every experience- good or bad- as an opportunity to learn.
- I can try again if something doesn’t go as planned.
- I can find new ways to do something I or someone else has already done.
- I can ask questions to frame, deepen, and drive my thinking and learning.
- I can try something I have never done before.
- I can observe and find inspiration in my surroundings.
- I can share and apply my ideas.
