Baltimore City Schools CEO Sonja Santelises and students at Montebello holding signs for the new “soft skills” added to the plan. Photo by Bri Hatch/WYPR.
Baltimore City Schools CEO Sonja Santelises and students at Montebello holding signs for the new “soft skills” added to the plan. Photo by Bri Hatch/WYPR.

Baltimore City Public Schools is shifting its guiding principles to reflect the “soft skills” students say they want to have when they graduate.

CEO Sonja Santelises announced the new “Portrait of a Graduate” strategic plan at Montebello Elementary/Middle School on Thursday. She said the plan builds on the district’s three overarching goals from 2017: literacy, student wholeness and leadership.

“Since 2017, the world has changed greatly, and we have learned a lot about our students and families,” she said. “We believe that our strategic plan has to reflect these new priorities.”

The strategic plan is used as a guiding framework for school policies, allocation of resources and operations.

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