Knowledge, Skills, and Attributes (KSA) Curriculum
KSA courses offer:
- Improved knowledge retention
- Academic excellence
- 21st-century skills
- Character development
How the KSA course model helps
Enhanced Employability | Personal Growth | Preparation for Higher Education
Learn skills and attributes that prepare you for the real world
Courses are designed to challenge you by asking you to apply concepts in a way you may need in the real world. Challenging you to use new skills while learning improves your knowledge retention. Your success is essential to us, and we think you'll agree.
Gain mastery of a subject while using innovative methods to ensure retention. Our courses include engaging hands-on activities, built-in videos, interactive games, and fillable notetaking guides.
While mastering a subject, students are tasked with a myriad of real-world challenges that enable them to learn new skills in collaboration, communication, creativity, and critical thinking. These skills also correlate with Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) competencies and traits identified as 21st-century Skills.
These skills are essential to excel outside of the classroom.
Attributes are soft skills that improve social and emotional learning.
Our courses include deep questions and challenge students to apply knowledge in ways that help them become more emotionally resilient and prosperous—personally and professionally.
Acquire skills that help you grow
- Flexibility
- Leadership and Initiative
- Collaborate Using Digital Media
- Responsiveness and Constructive Feedback
- Cooperation
- Responsibility and Productivity
- Deliver Presentations
- Communicate Using Digital Media
- Engage in Conversations and Discussions
- Communicate in Diverse Environments
- Communicate Using Writing
- Effective Listening
- Work Creatively with Others
- Openness and Courage to Explore
- Creative Production and Innovation
- Idea Design and Refinement
- Idea Generation
- Constructing Arguments
- Information and Discovery
- Interpretation and Analysis
- Problem Solving
- Reasoning
- Design Thinking
Earn and share tangible Skill Credentials
Based on course performance, you can earn Skill Credentials that you can share as digital badges on job applications, resumes, and social media channels to verify your gained proficiencies. These Skill Credentials help you stand out among your peers.
Deliver Presentations
Leadership and Initiative
Communicate Using Speech
Collaborate Using Digital Media
Engage in Conversations and Discussions
Flexibility
Responsiveness and Constructive Feedback
Cooperation
Communicate Using Writing
Communicate Using Digital Media
Interpretation and Analysis
Idea Generation
Idea Design and Refinement
Reasoning
Effective Listening
Creative Production and Innovation
Openness and Courage to Explore
Design Thinking
Problem SolvingHow Credentials Are Integrated into Courses
Most courses include opportunities for students to earn digital badges that recognize the knowledge, skills, and attributes developed throughout the course. AP, world language, and music courses do not include KSA-based components.
How students earn credentials
To earn credentials, students complete assignments as part of their regular coursework.
For example, in the 9th-Grade World Geography course, students can earn the Respect attribute and Communications skill by presenting to a family member something they admire about another culture.
College and Career Readiness
Skills and attribute credentials offer tangible evidence of capabilities to colleges and employers. These credentials set our students apart from other applicants by showing they have successfully mastered desirable skills that benefit the organization.
Portrait of a Graduate
The KSA components tie into our Mission, Vision, and Values by helping develop people who seek to strengthen spiritually, expand intellectually, build character, and be of service to others.
