• Career Readiness

Mason students who are career ready will have the knowledge, attitudes, and skills to be adaptable, effective, and ethical in a global society. Career-ready students are prepared to use their talents and resources to do or create jobs. Students participating in this tract will be able to:

• Work well in teams.
• Take initiative.
• Communicate well (written and oral).
• Guide decision-making and problem solving.
• Identify strengths and market skills.
• Act ethically and understand different ethical perspectives.

• Civic Learning and Community Engagement

Mason students will apply ethical knowledge and learning with democratic ideals and principals to make positive and meaningful changes locally and globally. As innovative and active community members, Mason students engage with the world, honor freedom of thought and expression, and thrive together. Students participating in this track will be able to:

• Identify core personal values and base actions on those values.
• Demonstrate knowledge, awareness, and understanding of important world issues.
• Apply academic and disciplinary knowledge and personal experience to addressing societal problems.
• Build a just society and be equipped to make meaningful social change.

• Global and Multicultural

Mason students will understand the ways in which they perceive, evaluate, believe, and solve problems, based on their own self-awareness and attained cultural knowledge. They will conscientiously negotiate diversity among individuals of various cultures and ethnicities, within individual cultures and subcultures, by becoming aware of one’s own and others’ perspectives. Students participating in this track will be able to:

• Articulate awareness and knowledge of others.
• Articulate a basic understanding of how worldviews are influenced.
• Demonstrate sensitivity toward others.
• Articulate the worldview of self and others.
• Articulate the impact their behavior has globally.
• Serve as an ally and advocated effectively for people of other identities than their own.
• Articulate an awareness of the roots and impact system-based power and privilege.

• Well-Being

Mason students will be able to build lives of vitality, purpose and resilience, which are enriched by diversity and characterized by thriving, curiosity, hope, meaning, and joy. Students participating in this track will be able to:

• Cultivate their belief and purpose in their lives and decision-making.
• Be aware, access, and adapt their physical well-being and the well-being of others.
• Bolster financial literacy and successfully manage their financial lives.
• Form meaningful, long-term relationships, and manage conflict effectively.
• Understand, integrate, and model mindful awareness and resilience.
• Explore and maximize their talents and strengths.

Curriculum tracks and descriptions created by the Patriot Experience.