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Crescent Diploma

The Crescent Diploma encapsulates what makes a Crescent education unique.

It signifies that a student has met Crescent’s enriched academic requirements, demonstrated the character qualities that underpin our Portrait of a Graduate, and was fully engaged in community life. It is awarded to students graduating from Grades 6, 8 and 12.

Crescent worked with the Centre for Curriculum Redesign (CCR), a non-profit global leader in 21st-century education, to develop the diploma. This partnership helped shine a light on the trends shaping the future of education, ensured that any academic enhancements are grounded in research, and provided professional development to grow the capacity of Crescent leaders and faculty.
 
 

There are three main components of the Crescent Diploma.

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  • Modern and Future-Ready Knowledge (click to read more)

    Crescent has modernized its curriculum through two intentional shifts. The first is a move from content coverage to purposeful, applied, and developmental learning aligned with the Crescent Diploma and Portrait of a Graduate. Across all divisions, learning now emphasizes inquiry, experiential and interdisciplinary work, and authentic assessment—progressing from curiosity-driven exploration and collaboration to advanced inquiry, design challenges, and evidence-based demonstrations of learning.

    The second is the intentional integration of future-ready learning within the curriculum, including computational problem-solving in mathematics and science, integrative thinking in the social sciences, and ethical engagement with emerging technologies. Together, these changes ensure the curriculum develops not only academic knowledge, but also the skills, character, and adaptability required for life beyond school.
 
Learn how coding and robotics skills in the Middle School prepare students for future academic and career pursuits.
 

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  • Character-Infused Education (click to read more)


    Crescent has always been a character school. What’s new is the deliberate, systematic, evidence-based approach to teaching and assessing character competency. Through our work with CCR, Crescent becomes one of the world’s first schools to integrate and develop evidence to demonstrate character competency across its curricular and co-curricular programs.
 
Learn how a growth mindset is taught in math class.
 

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  • Signature Experiences  (click to read more)

    These touchstone moments provide important opportunities for growth and reflection, including the Grade 5 Let Grow experience, the Grade 7 Public Speaking experience, and the Upper School 40-in-9 Community Service experience. The Crescent Diploma reflects growth across academics, character, and community engagement. Students develop Crescent’s twelve character qualities, including courage, self-awareness, and collaboration, while mastering essential skills, habits of mind, and subject knowledge. 
 
Learn how the Moral Dilemma writing program teaches Grade 6 boys to be better men.
 
The Crescent Diploma is symbolic of a well-developed Man of Character equipped to positively impact our world. The diploma rolled out for Grades 3 and 7 in the 2022–2023 academic year and in the following year for Grade 9. Many curricular and programmatic enhancements are currently in place and benefitting Crescent students today.
 
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