01 · The mandate
Critical Thinking and Communication are non-negotiable.
Picked by 85% and 77% of respondents. The next skill trails by 25 points. Universal across roles.
Key insights · Phase 2 read-back
Ten things the data is telling the Design Council.
Every card traces to a section of the Full Report. 786 responses · 9 / 9 schools · April 2026.
02 · The lag
Using AI Wisely is the lowest-rated, lowest-prioritized skill.
Mean 4.24 / 5 — students lowest at 3.99. Picked top-3 by only 14%. The AI guidance has to earn its place.
03 · The split
Parents and students disagree most on Integrity.
A +0.53 spread — the widest in the dataset. Parents rank it third; students rank Collaboration third and Integrity fourth.
04 · The counter-current
A meaningful share opposes AI in school outright.
50 wrote opposition. 37 are students — the loudest single voice in the open text.
05 · The frame
"A tool, not a crutch" is the dominant AI frame.
212 respondents wrote it. With "don't replace thinking" (126), "use with integrity" (119), "verify before trust" (80) — the language is set.
06 · The Ready Learner
Five capabilities the community keeps repeating.
Communicate · handle the real world · speak with confidence · adapt · self-advocate. Anchors the Ready Learner statement.
07 · The parent ask
Financial literacy is a parent-led signal.
31 of 334 "missing skill" respondents named financial literacy. 28 of those are parents. Pairs naturally with Agency as a mindset.
08 · The instrument
All six skills earn community support.
Means cluster between 4.24 and 4.77. The work isn't removing a skill — it's ranking them so Phase 3 sequences what gets taught when.
09 · The site map
Six of nine schools cleared n = 60.
Read those means as signal. Adelante (5) and Independence (16) fold into the rollup but aren't site-compared. 47 respondents skipped the school field.
10 · The line a trustee carries home
Roseville families and students agreed on what a graduate should be able to do — think clearly, communicate, handle real life. They disagreed most about AI. Phase 3 will write the Ready Learner statement in their language, and the AI guidance will honor the frame they already gave us — a tool, not a substitute for thinking.
Phase 2 · Community Input
What our voices said a Roseville graduate should be.
The community read-back the Design Council carries into Phase 3.
Source · RJUHSD Phase 2 instrument · portraitofagraduatesurvey.rjuhsd.app · n = 786 · April 2026
The pulse
Where the response landed.
Eight days · all nine schools · no PII collected.
Total responses
786
Anonymous responses across all nine RJUHSD high schools.
Role mix
440 · 292 · 50 · 4
Parents · students · staff · leadership. Parent volume reflects the family channel through which the survey was promoted.
Schools represented
9 / 9
Every comprehensive and continuation site is represented. Site-level n ranges from low-volume continuation sites to West Park as the largest.
Using AI · readiness mean
4.24 / 5
The lowest-scoring of the six durable skills. Students rate it lowest of any role at 3.99.
Six skills, rated
How the community rated each candidate skill.
All six earn community support. Rank order tells the story.
Distribution of ratings · 1 to 5 · n = 786
What matters most
The top-three picks, across every ballot.
Each respondent picked exactly three. Critical Thinking on 85%; Using AI Wisely on 14%.
Top-three picks · counts of 786 respondents · 2,358 total picks
1
Critical Thinking
66985%
2
Communication
60877%
3
Integrity & Transparency
41152%
4
Collaboration
34844%
5
Agency
21227%
6
Using AI Wisely
11014%
Three voices, one table
Where parents, students, and staff agree — and where they don't.
Heatmap of mean ratings by role. The largest gap is on Integrity (parent 4.76 vs student 4.23).
Mean rating by role · 1-to-5 scale · darker = higher · n parents 440 · students 292 · staff 50
| Skill | Parents | Students | Staff | Gap P − S |
Top-3 share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Critical Thinking | 4.89 | 4.57 | 4.82 | +0.32 | 85% |
| Communication | 4.85 | 4.52 | 4.68 | +0.33 | 77% |
| Integrity & Transparency | 4.76 | 4.23 | 4.74 | +0.53 | 52% |
| Agency | 4.69 | 4.51 | 4.58 | +0.18 | 27% |
| Collaboration | 4.65 | 4.30 | 4.64 | +0.35 | 44% |
| Using AI Wisely | 4.39 | 3.99 | 4.34 | +0.40 | 14% |
≤ 4.30
4.30 — 4.55
4.55 — 4.75
≥ 4.75
Gap ≥ 0.50 (notable)
Students rank Collaboration above Integrity in their top-three picks (52% vs 42%). Parents place Integrity third (58%). Same skill, two stories.
Site spotlight
Response volume, school by school.
Site-level means shown only at n ≥ 60.
Responses per school · n = 786 · 47 respondents skipped or chose Other
Low-n flag. Adelante (n = 5) and Independence (n = 16) responded but at volumes that don't support site-level comparison. Their voices are folded into the rollup; site-level means are shown only for sites at n ≥ 60 (Antelope, Granite Bay, Oakmont, Roseville, West Park, Woodcreek).
AI in their words
What the community said when we asked about AI.
Five themes from 675 open-text respondents. Counts overlap; verbatim quotes are unedited.
A tool, not a crutch.
Using it for assistance and helping with creativity, not doing the work for them. A parent · Granite Bay
Parents 136
Students 54
Staff 20
Don't replace the thinking.
That they learn to think critically and not rely on it. A parent · Woodcreek
Parents 95
Students 16
Staff 14
Integrity and transparency about use.
Knowing when it's appropriate to use it and how to cite it as a resource. A parent · West Park
Parents 60
Students 44
Staff 14
Verify before you trust.
Having tools to verify. How to cross-check with reputable source material. A parent · Granite Bay
Parents 56
Students 19
Staff 5
A meaningful share opposes AI in school outright.
I want to get really good at not using AI. A 12th-grader · West Park
Students 37
Parents 13
The Ready Learner can…
Five things the community said graduates should be able to do.
From 588 sentence-stem responses. Communicate · handle real life · adapt · self-advocate · contribute.
Communicate clearly, in person and in writing.
Communicate clearly, demonstrate grit and resilience when faced with tough situations, and use AI with integrity. A parent · West Park
Parents 84
Students 28
Staff 13
Handle the real world.
Solve y = mx + b but not taxes. A 9th-grader · Antelope
Parents 72
Students 29
Staff 8
Speak with confidence.
Confidently conduct themselves in a professional environment. An 11th-grader · Oakmont
Parents 67
Students 16
Adapt as the world changes.
Surf on the wave that is a new world with AI and not drown in it. A parent · Granite Bay
Parents 63
Students 16
Self-advocate. Take ownership.
Take charge of their own learning. Manage changes and unexpected circumstances. Know when it's okay to say no. An 11th-grader · Oakmont
Parents 63
Students 17
Staff 4
What's missing
When asked what we'd left out, here's what they added.
Mindset candidates from 334 open-text respondents. Pair these with the six skills, don't replace them.
Integrity, character, and honesty.
Character matters. The way a student responds to adversity will determine how successful they ultimately become. A parent · Oakmont
Parents 30
Students 18
Staff 3
Empathy and kindness.
Empathy. In a world looking more black and white each day, the ability to see another side is a lost art. A parent · Roseville
Parents 31
Students 12
Staff 3
Resilience and growth mindset.
Grit. Problems happen and you will have setbacks but keep moving forward. A parent · Woodcreek
Parents 23
Staff 6
Students 5
Financial literacy.
Students should be taught personal financing, how to budget, about credit scores — shown how to be ready to enter the world, not just how to get into college. A parent · West Park
Parents 28
Students 3
Three smaller currents the Design Council can weigh.
Time management is essential in life. Having student athletes makes that a forefront priority — I'm hopeful that will carry through to their futures. A parent · West Park · time management
Work ethic 25
Time mgmt 17
Curiosity 16
Mental health 15
Methodology and provenance.
- Instrument
- Phase 2 community input survey, six durable-skill ratings (1–5) plus six free-response prompts. Sentence-completion stem “A Roseville learner who is ready for the future can…” shared across roles. Six numbered sections, ~6 minutes to complete. Live at portraitofagraduatesurvey.rjuhsd.app.
- Period
- Approximately eight days in April 2026.
- Sample
- n = 786 anonymous responses. Role mix: 440 parents, 292 students, 50 staff, 4 leadership. Per-school n shifts as new responses arrive; site-level means are shown only where a site clears n ≥ 60.
- Privacy
- No PII collected. A per-session UUID is recorded for de-duplication only and is not personally identifying. The dataset is retained on a single Google Sheet owned by the district.
- Theme synthesis
- Open-text themes are computed by hand-coded keyword/regex bundles applied per respondent across the source columns for each section. A respondent may match more than one theme. Counts in this report are unique-respondent matches; percentages are over the count of respondents who answered at least one open-text question for that section. Verbatim quotes are reproduced as written; light typo cleanup only, no semantic edits.
- Design Council
- This artifact is the input the Design Council uses for Phase 3 (graduate profile + AI guidance draft, May–June 2026). Mean ratings and top-three picks anchor the rank order of the six skills. Theme blocks anchor the language used in the Ready Learner statement and the AI guidance.
- Out of scope here
- Per-school individual briefs (low-n at two sites makes site comparison misleading). Public board version (different framing — single finding, single number, single repeatable sentence). Both can follow if the Design Council wants them.
- Provenance
- Source · RJUHSD Phase 2 instrument · April 2026. Not for public distribution until reviewed by the Design Council and Tu Carroz, Asst. Supt. of Educational Services.