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River Woods Receives "Exemplary" Status by Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE)
ISBE’s summative designations measure progress in academic, school quality, and student success. “Exemplary” schools perform in the top 10 percent of schools statewide with no underperforming student groups.
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Learn more about our Social-Emotional Learning SEL Standards and Curriculum
At River Woods School, we help children develop academic and social-emotional skills as we focus on the whole child. Click on the heading to find out more about our SEL Program.
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River Woods School Spirit Wear
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Adaptability
• Work effectively in a climate of ambiguity and changing priorities, roles, and situations.
• Demonstrate agility and resilience in thoughts and actions.
• Respond productively to feedback, praise, setbacks, and criticism.
• Understand, negotiate, and balance diverse views and beliefs to reach workable solutions.
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Communication
• Articulate thoughts and ideas effectively using oral, written, and nonverbal communication skills in a variety of forms and contexts.
• Listen effectively to decipher meaning, including knowledge, values, attitudes, and intentions.
• Use communication for a range of purposes and audiences including to inform, instruct, motivate, and persuade.
• Seek, contribute, and respond to feedback to achieve collective outcomes.
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Critical Thinking
• Understand the bigger picture and propose solutions that consider the effects on the whole system.
• Consistently improve the quality of one's own thinking by skillfully analyzing, assessing, and reconstructing.
• Apply disciplined thinking that is clear, rational, open-minded, and informed by evidence.
• Access, evaluate, and integrate information effectively, using appropriate tools and resources wisely, ethically, and efficiently.
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Learner's Mindset
• Embrace curiosity to experience new ideas, while developing positive attitudes and beliefs about learning.
• Possess the desire to learn, unlearn, and relearn.
• Find and maximize opportunities to actively listen and elicit diverse perspectives from others.
• Adopt a dynamic mindset, embracing flexibility and taking ownership, with intrinsic motivation and an eagerness to evolve.
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Global Citizen
• Demonstrate awareness, sensitivity, concern, and respect to connect with others' feelings, opinions, experiences, and culture.
• Value and embrace diverse cultures and unique perspectives through mutual respect and open dialogue.
• Demonstrate personal, civic, social, local, and global responsibility through ethical and empathetic behaviors.
• Elicit diverse perspectives and contributions.
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