• Truly listen to one another and see the world from different perspectives.

• Recognize how race, ethnicity, class, gender, family, and context shape human values and experience.

• Understand the relationship between students’ academic achievement and their emotional well-being.

• Demonstrate dexterity in their use of curriculum theory, pedagogy, and assessment practices.

• Create classroom environments that respect all students and meet the needs of all learners.

• Conduct research with students, educators and school communities to generate new knowledge and strategies that contribute to the field.

• Critically analyse and thoughtfully engage in conversations around current educational policies that impact teaching and learning in classrooms.

• Develop professional dispositions that help them to recognize and utilize the “funds of knowledge” of culturally and linguistically diverse families and communities.

• Teach and lead in a wide range of local, state, regional, national, and international settings.