Category 1: Investigate the World
 

• Identify a locally, regionally or globally focused issue and frame researchable questions.
• Use a variety of international and domestic sources, media and languages to identify and weight relevant evidence to address a globally significant, researchable question.
• Analyze, integrate and synthesize evidence collected to construct coherent responses to globally significant, researchable questions.
• Develop an argument based on compelling evidence that considers multiple perspectives and draws defensible conclusions.

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Category 2: Recognize and Weigh Perspectives
 

• Recognize and express your own perspective on situations, events, issues or phenomena and identify the influences on that perspective.
• Examine perspectives of other people, groups, or schools of thought and identify the influences on those perspectives.
• Explain how cultural interactions influence situations, events, issues or phenomena, including the development of knowledge.
• Articulate how differential access to knowledge, technology and resources affects quality of life an perspectives.
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Category 3: Communicate Ideas
 

• Recognize and express how diverse audiences may perceive different meanings from the same information and how that impacts communication.
• Listen to and communicate effectively with diverse people, using appropriate verbal and non-verbal behavior, language and strategies.
• Select and use appropriate technology and media to communicate and collaborate with diverse audiences.
• Reflect on how effective communication impacts understanding and collaboration in an interdependent world.

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Category 4: Take Action
 

• Identify and create opportunities for personal or collaborative action to address situations, events, issues or phenomena in ways that improve conditions.
• Assess options and plan actions based on evidence and the potential for impact, taking into account previous approaches, varied perspectives and potential consequences.
• Act, personally or collaboratively, in creative and ethical ways to contribute to improvement locally, regionally or globally and assess the impact of the action.
• Reflect on their capacity to advocate for and contribute to improvement locally, regionally or globally.