Envision Schools Leadership Skills Rubric

Think critically / Manage Projects Effectively / Express themselves creatively / Communicate effectively and persuasively / Collaborate productively / Solve problems resourcefully
Breakthrough

Excellent

Includes all of the criteria included in capable, and: / Reasoning is clear, logical, and thorough; interprets or calculates information accurately and creatively; supports statements with evidence / ·  Advanced understanding and use of project planning skills
·  Meets goals in advance of deadlines
·  Acquires and uses effectively original information.
·  Evaluation provides new insights to project management and leanring / ·  Integrates concepts in previously unimagined ways
·  Employs media innovatively
·  Evokes emotional response from the audience / ·  Self and ideas “come alive” to audience
·  Ideas are complex and creative
·  Communication is clear and well organized
·  Work is accurate and complete with consistent and superior development; shows attention to detail
·  Almost no language errors are evident / ·  Initiates opportunities for collaboration
·  Manages and resolves conflicts to achieve consensus
·  Inspires groups to increase their potential
·  Assumes leadership roles / ·  Identifies relationships between problems
·  Invents new tools for solving problems
·  Proposes and evaluates multiple solutions

Capable

/ Reasoning is clear and logical; interprets or calculates information accurately; supports statements with explanation / ·  Demonstrates an understanding of and uses project-planning skills.
·  Sets goals and developed strategies to meet those goals in a timely manner.
·  Acquires and use information and resources to implement their strategies.
·  Evaluates the effectiveness of their approach. / ·  Develops and expresses a point of view, opinion, or idea in a unique way
·  Employs artistic processes and skills using appropriate media / ·  Student effectively presents self and ideas to audience
·  Ideas are complex
·  Communication is clear and organized
·  Work is accurate and fully developed
·  Though minor language errors are evident, ideas are understandable / ·  Works well in diverse groups
·  Employs personal strengths and skills for the team
·  Assumes some leadership roles / ·  Approaches problem creatively and flexibly
·  Identifies and organizes needed information
·  Proposes reasonable and workable solutions

Emerging

/ Reasoning is unclear, illogical, or superficial; interprets or calculates information inaccurately; makes statements with little explanation / ·  Demonstrates lack of understanding and struggles to use project-planning skills
·  Project misses deadlines
·  Does not access sufficient information
·  Fails to evaluate effectiveness of approach / ·  Produces work that is unoriginal
·  Does not develop processes and skills / ·  Student needs greater awareness of the audience
·  Ideas are not complex; copies others
·  Communication is disorganized
·  Work needs to be more accurate and complete
·  Errors in language make ideas difficult to understand / ·  Participates minimally and superficially
·  Rarely utilizes contributions of others
·  Struggles to define collaborative role / ·  Approaches problems from only one perspective
·  Does not take advantage of available resources
·  Proposes limited or impractical solutions
Unacceptable