DurableSkills
The skills that outlast any class.
High school has traditionally focused on skills that fit neatly into a grade book—memorizing facts, solving for x, getting the right answer.
But today’s world requires students to make sense of complexity, challenge ideas, work through conflict, and navigate problems without clear solutions. Those skills don’t show up on a transcript, so they’re often neglected in daily learning.
The XQ Competencies provide a clear, teachable map of durable skills—with the progressions and tools to help educators build them, track them, and measure them in their students.
Explore XQ Competency Tools
XQ Competency Navigator
The Competencies break down the critical elements of lifelong learning into teachable skills. Designed to be used in concert with academic standards, they are applicable to both school and outside-of-school settings. Explore the XQ Competencies and skill progressions in the Competency Navigator.
Competency Adoption Toolkit
You have a Portrait of a Graduate. Now what? The Competency Adoption Toolkit translates your school or district's vision into actionable skills — connecting your outcomes to XQ Competencies and learning progressions so you can move from aspirational language to classroom practice.
Compare Portraits
Compare Portraits of a Graduate side by side and benchmark them against the XQ Competencies to identify strengths, gaps, and opportunities for alignment.
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