Stevenson High School Competencies

While each course has created competencies that are nuanced and contextualized based on the content, they all are versions of these same core competencies. Students will develop all or most of the following competencies in their four years here at Stevenson High School.

*Depending on the course path a student chooses some competencies will be developed further than others (e.g. Fine Arts and a performance skill or Social Studies and a source evaluation skill).
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4 Year competencies (Competencies that need 4 years to develop)
Reading Comprehension (SAT Competency)
Writing Argumentation (SAT Competency)
Writing Creatively 
Critiquing Information
Reasoning Abstractly (SAT Competency)
Reasoning Quantitatively (SAT Competency)
Communication/Speaking
Argumentation (SAT Competency)
Obtaining Information
Evaluating information (SAT Competency)
Committing to Self (Social-Emotional Learning)
Committing Others (Social-Emotional Learning)
 
3 Year competencies (Competencies that need 3 years to develop)
Attending to Precision (SAT Competency)
Using Models (SAT Competency)
Questioning
Computational Thinking (SAT Competency)
Pattern Recognition (SAT Competency)
 
2 Year Competencies (Competencies that need 2 years to develop)
Writing Intensively
Investigating
Problem Solving (SAT Competency)
Designing Experiments
Analyzing and Interpreting (SAT Competency)
 
1 Year Competencies (Competencies that need 1 year to develop)
Performing (Artistic Expression)
Creating (Artistic Expression)
Goal Setting (Wellness and Academic)
Expressing Ideas (SAT Competency)