Competency Frameworks are your compass for future-ready learning.
You want students to build future-ready skills. Without a clear competency framework, those goals risk staying symbolic: inspiring on a poster, but never shaping classrooms.
The CBE Catalyst Competency Frameworks Pathway helps you design a compass you can trust—one that strengthens your expertise, supports educators, and keeps daily learning aligned with the future you envision for young people.
Competency Frameworks are your compass for future-ready learning.
You want students to build future-ready skills. Without a clear competency framework, those goals risk staying symbolic: inspiring on a poster, but never shaping classrooms.
The CBE Catalyst Competency Frameworks Pathway helps you design a compass you can trust—one that strengthens your expertise, supports educators, and keeps daily learning aligned with the future you envision for young people.
The Risk of Drifting
Students will need durable skills like problem-solving, adaptability, and collaboration to thrive. But without a competency-based framework to guide learning, schools risk creating disconnected initiatives that frustrate teachers, confuse families, and leave learners unprepared.
WHAT YOU’LL UNLOCK →
From ideas to implementation, the Competency Framework Pathway helps you:
Design for Durability
Use tested tools and criteria to translate a graduate profile into competencies that endure.
Equip educators quickly
Provide ready-made guides and adaptable materials for professional learning.
Build Shared Ownership
Engage teachers, families, and communities in shaping competencies.
Stay Research-Grounded
Anchor your framework in learning sciences and workforce needs.
WATCH NOW →
Competency Frameworks Webinar
A Peek Inside the Pathway
Preview a few of the many resources waiting inside:
Course Syllabus →
Get a preview of the tools, models, and AI tools in the Competency Framework Learning Pathway, designed to support reflection, planning, and impact.
Readiness Assessment →
Use this self-assessment to examine your educational beliefs and views around readiness for learning, pace of learning, intelligence, ability, assessment, and motivation.
Future9 Adaptation Guide →
A step-by-step guide to help schools and systems adopt or adapt the Future9 Competencies to ensure the framework works in your context.
AI Tool for Framework Readiness →
Use this AI tool to gauge your readiness for adopting or adapting a competency framework—spotting likely challenges and surfacing strengths to guide your path.
This is just a glimpse.
CBE Catalyst Membership unlocks the full pathway, expert coaching, and a national peer network.
Curious about Learning Pathways? Try a free trial of the Learning Experience Design Pathway.
This is just a glimpse.
CBE Catalyst Membership unlocks the full pathway, expert coaching, and a national peer network.
Curious about Learning Pathways? Try a free trial of the Learning Experience Design Pathway.
“CBE Catalyst gave us the practical tools to launch our program, and the guidance to shift our mindsets.”
Michelle M., Career Program Director at Framingham High School
The time to begin is now.
Every journey needs a guide you can rely on. This is your moment to design yours—using proven criteria and grounded in research that bridges learning, work, and community life. With CBE Catalyst, you can design a competency framework that stays relevant and drives meaningful learning into the future.
The future of learning can’t wait. Start small, or scale big—
CBE Catalyst grows with you.
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