Portrait of a Graduate

An Expert Learner

A Mustard Seed graduate acts as a protagonist in their education.

• Students understand that they play an active role in their education as they develop into strategic, lifelong learners.

• Students build, represent, and express their deep conceptual understanding through both academic and artistic engagement.

• Students pursue rigorous learning by accessing prior knowledge, setting goals, designing action steps, executing plans, and engaging in reflection.

• Students critically seek, interpret, analyze, and synthesize information in order to make complex decisions.

• Students apply content knowledge to solve multifaceted, real-life problems with fluency and flexibility, recognizing mistakes as vital steps towards a solution.

A Change Maker

A graduate of Mustard Seed engages with and cares for their classroom, school, and the broader community.

• Students practice working together to create a safe, joyful, inclusive classroom environment and are ready to apply this work beyond the classroom.

• Students openly receive guidance from teachers and peers and offer support and encouragement to classmates.

• Students of varying backgrounds contribute their own strengths and experiences, and they develop collaborative capacities to further ideas and solve problems together, enhanced by their differences.

• Students see themselves as part of a global community and act as compassionate advocates who learn from and serve with others in solidarity.

A Child of God

A Mustard Seed graduate exhibits self-knowledge and understands that they live a life of meaning and purpose.

• Students openly explore, develop, and positively express their individual identities, rooted in this sense of their own worth and value.

• Students appreciate the interconnectedness of all people and creation and demonstrate that through faith, arts, service, and academics.

• Students honor the unique identities of each community member, including race, ethnicity, language, gender, sexual orientation, disability, and faith.

• Students identify and challenge stereotypes, uphold the dignity and belonging of all people, and strive for the inclusion of themselves and others.

• Students explore their passions and curiosities to engage in heartfelt work and active service to the community and world.