The XQ Student Performance Framework (XQ SPF) defines student success not by test scores or Carnegie Units, but by the achievement of meaningful outcomes across academic content, cognitive skills, and social-emotional competencies.
XQ Competencies can serve as a powerful tool for providing young people with learning experiences that prepare them for future success in college, career, and life. The framework’s progressive structure helps ensure that cognitive, social, and emotional competencies can be embedded in every learning experience and integrated with the core academic competencies. It is designed to work in any state, in any school, and in any outside-of-school education setting and is designed to integrate with any existing state content standard regime.
Section 1
We offer definitions of competency and examines how this construct relates to other common SEL terms. This section includes an analysis of how competency and the other SEL-related terms show up in the 40 frameworks on the Explore SEL site that were used for the comparative analysis by EASEL Lab.
Section 2
Provides an explication of the EASEL Lab Analysis Report. This section includes details on EASEL Lab’s methodology, findings (both composite analysis against the 40 frameworks and comparative analysis to three popular SEL frameworks), research-informed opinions, and conclusions.
Conclusion
With a high-level view of how and where the XQ Competency framework fits in the broader education reform/rethink/reimagine context occupied by K-12 innovators and adjacent youth development organizations.