Competency Based Learning
Liberty Public Schools is committed to equipping each learner with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary for success in college, career, and the workplace. Our district-wide approach to Competency-Based Learning (CBL) incorporates key components that are essential for creating effective learning environments. These components include:
These elements ensure that our learning environments across the district are designed to maximize student potential and preparedness for future challenges. Below, we have defined each component of Liberty Public Schools' Competency-Based Learning approach, along with practices you would see our students and teachers engage with. Last, these components also support the elements of the Graduate Profile which have also been identified within each CBL component.
Through these components, Liberty Public Schools fosters an innovative, learner-centered environment that prepares learners for the complexities of the modern world.
A Empowerment
B Assessment
C Differentiation
D Progress
E Pathways
F Equity
G Competencies
H Real World Learning
Curriculum Information
Curriculum Pages
- LPS Middle Level Competencies
- DESE Priority Standards
Teacher Work Group
DESE is proud to have Missouri educators Mike Fulton, Matt Goodman, Pam Hedgpeth, and Jeremy Tucker leading this work. We’re also working with the Missouri School Boards Association on this important effort.
Refer to the DESE Success-Ready Student Work Group website for all meeting notes and the most recent documents.
5 Essential Questions:
- What is competency-based learning?
- What strategies, including professional development, are needed to support the implementation of competency-based learning?
- What are barriers to competency based learning that need to be addressed locally and statewide with policy and practice?
- How can the assessment system (including MAP) be redesigned to support student mastery of priority standards, ensuring high school, college, career, and workplace readiness and meet federal requirements?
- What is the framework and approval process for districts to voluntarily customize MSIP 6 requirements in order to implement CBL practices, including assessment evidence?