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North Carolina Competency-Based Education Partnership

The North Carolina Competency-Based Education (NC CBE) Partnership focuses on sharing and discussing evidence-based practices related to the design and implementation of competency-based education (CBE). Each of the partner schools and districts have begun implementing CBE and the partnership will provide a community of practice for them to share ideas and lessons learned from the implementation process. As schools move toward full implementation of CBE, they can serve as models of practice for others.

Partner organizations: North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI), Cumberland County Public Schools, EDGE Academy of Health Sciences, Granville County Public Schools (GCPS), Morgan Elementary School, Northeast Academy of Aerospace and Advanced Technologies (NEAAAT)

Current Projects

The North Carolina Competency-Based Education (NC CBE) school coaching work will focus on supporting two high schools in North Carolina (Northeast Academy of Aerospace and Advanced Technologies and North Edgecombe High School) with their CBE implementation. The short-term goals for the schools focus on clarifying vision and creating a roadmap and/or strategic plan for scaling or expanding CBE related practices. Once there is a clear vision and plan in place, the medium-term goals focus on building capacity and creating champions for the CBE work within the school and with families and community members connected to the schools. Achieving the medium-term goals will involve providing coaching support on specific CBE topics and supporting the development of communication plans and stakeholder engagements to share the progress of the work and the benefits for all students. Both schools will participate in the NC CBE partnership and will share ideas as well as learn from other educators across North Carolina who are interested and/or already engaged in some level of CBE implementation.

No completed projects at this time.

Event Type: In-person Event | Event Date: February 22, 2024
The event content will focus on competency-based education (CBE) implementation at the national, state, and local levels, specifically focusing on building momentum for implementation of CBE. The agenda will include time for students to present project...
Product Type: Blog | Publication Date: February 24, 2023
Operation Polaris, Superintendent Truitt’s vision for North Carolina public schools, has recently been updated and has expanded the state’s original emphasis on personalized learning to specifically call out Competency-Based Education (CBE).
Product Type: Resource | Publication Date: February 2023
The Competency-Based Education (CBE) Mastery Framework defines key components within an authentic CBE environment across the dimensions of Structure, Culture, Teaching, and Learning.
Product Type: Video | Publication Date: September 2021
A foundational concept of CBE is a student-centered approach to learning. This video contains conversations with students at various grade levels who have taken ownership of their learning and begun to advocate for their learning within a CBE classroom...
Product Type: Video | Publication Date: August 2021
Instruction in a CBE environment focuses on each student's ability, learning style, and learning pace and shifts from teaching to facilitating. This video focuses on the elements contained within the teaching dimension, including teachers as facilitators...
Product Type: Video | Publication Date: July 2021
School leaders play a key role in setting the vision and creating the culture within a school. This video features school principals who have shifted their school’s grading practices from a traditional letter-grade system to a CBE mastery-based grading...
Product Type: Video | Publication Date: June 2021
This video highlights the role of administrators at the state, district, and school levels in putting elements in place that allow for Competency-Based Education (CBE) implementation. State, district, and school administrators tend to have the most control...
Product Type: Video | Publication Date: May 2021
In this video, we share the North Carolina Research Alliance’s definition of Competency-Based Education (CBE) and an overview of the CBE Mastery Framework. The video also identifies the benefits of CBE over the traditional model, including increased flexibility...

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