Liger uses twelve entrepreneurial and leadership competencies to structure students’ pathway to becoming change agents. These characteristics or traits embody Liger’s experiential, project-based learning model. Students are explicitly taught these characteristics, and over time, learn to identify them in themselves and others. The goal is to have all students be proficient in displaying the full range of leadership competencies by the time they graduate. The expectation is that they will utilize and showcase these traits both during their educational journey, and also after graduation, either in university or when starting a career.
During each nine-week project-based learning module, or Exploration, staff and students work together to select three competencies that are most related to their final product or intended impact. Then, these three traits are highlighted, discussed in-depth, and practiced. During the Exploration assessment and feedback stage, students are assessed on the three selected leadership competencies using the continuum of emerging, progressing, proficient and exemplary.
At the end of each academic year, the entire education team assesses all students on all twelve competencies, using the same continuum. This allows tracking of individual and grade-level growth over time, drawing conclusions about competencies that need to be reviewed or encouraged more explicitly. It also allows for better visualization of the progression of leadership skills as a whole over time.
Beginning in Grade 7, all complete an annual self-assessment, ranking themselves on the continuum, and providing examples of how they applied, displayed or practiced all twelve competencies in an educational context.
These competencies are woven into the fabric of the Liger curriculum and model, and are the foundation of a true Liger education.
Leadership Competencies include Assembling and Motivating a Team, Comfort with Uncertainty, Collaboration, and Self-awareness.
Liger’s six core values are incorporated into all aspects of life on and off-campus, and act as the cornerstone of our community’s culture. Our student and staff codes of conduct are centered around understanding and consistently displaying these core values. Students are recognized each week for displaying a core value, with concrete anecdotes shared with the entire student body to ensure new and returning students alike hear as many examples as possible of what core values in action look like. Additionally, beginning in Grade 10, students are individually evaluated on their ability to show these values in their Explorations.
Liger Leadership Academy’s six Core Values are:
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